Questions About "The Perfect Server - CentOS 6.4 x86_64 (nginx, Dovecot, ISPConfig 3"

Hello There

Trying to configure my dns server

I have a couple of questions

Q1-

If I type "hostname" at console prompt I get "server1" shouldn't it be a FQDN style like "server1.mydomain.com"​

Q2-

In ISPConfig3, when I go to system tab
the page shows only one line with "1" in each column but the server name is not displayed! Is this correct?
​

Q3-

On http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-centos-6.4-x86_64-nginx-dovecot-ispconfig-3-p5
in part 19 on line where "... and make sure that the ROOTDIR=/var/named/chroot line is comment out:"
does it mean that "#" has to be there​

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Thank you in advance for much the appreciated help.

Best Regards
Franck

 

Q4

Also I have noticed that the file "/etc/named.conf.local" is empty
Is this correct !!?​

 

Check in Server Config that the host name is set correctly like:

If not, open in SSH Server Terminal the file hosts

Code:

vi /etc/hosts

it should looks like:

if not, change the IP 192.168.1.100 to the one of your server and the domain include the alias to your servers domain name with the Alias again after the domain (as shown).

Restart networking after that.

If you read the Perfect Server Guide ....... you'll find all needed informations.

 

Quaxth, Till,

Thank's for the replies.

Quaxth, Indeed there was a problem with my host file. I have fix it.
Rebooted the server (still same result as in picture)
I should mention the file also has an entry for my Win PDC could that be interfering.

Regards

 

Also I should mention that the server config page has one empty line.

How can I fix this

 

I think that Till or Falko need to "jump" in for the problem

Of topic: If you would use the free service of http://postimage.org you could upload the picture to there and just use the link to the picture to place in post's. That has the advantage for to get full size displayed and not resized and may be difficult to see what they show!
At postimage they also having an nice screencapture apps which will be in system bar, lower right. set setting for to capture, click on that icon and select the area with mouse which you like to capture, right click in caprured area and click upload. Wait a moment and as the link to the picture appears, right click and chose upload. In you post use the
That's all and the picture will appear you post like this:

The Postimage Icon is that between the Nvidia and SC Icon, need to be set to show all times.
Don't need to sign up but you could do that for free as well and than get an API Key too!

 

Thank's Quaxth!

I will try your suggestion for images... looks good.

I have subscribed and downloaded the book... and working on try to find solution.

Any clues hon ow to you get to phpmyadmin to look in the ispconfig setup.

Cheers

Franck

 

Just use mydomain.com/phpmyadmin and you should be on the login page!

 

Answer to the phpmyadmin question

append :8081/phpmyadmin to server path

 

Sorry Franck, I use Apache with ISPConfig.

You may use PuTTY from Terminal and/or WinSCP from within Windows. Later may is more easy to use and you could just open the .conf files etc. with double click.

WinSCP is Freeware and you couls just download from Internet. Be careful with it, it has a lot power!

Regarding PhpMyAdmin, I just type in browser the Server's IP or the domain with /phpmyadmin on the end and I'm at the log on.

 

Thanks

Quaxth, about phpmyadmin I found it
yes I'm using both putty and winscp.

Till, yes I understand about the server name issue but how do I fix it
i.e. via ISPConfig (could not find) the tabs are not there.

In the mean time I've deleted bad entries in system->server and In system->server->config.

I restarted the ISPConfig

But then I get

So I tried ping google.com got 100% packets loss

Now I went system-config-network

on eth0 I set it like this
Default gateway IP 192.168.1.1 (pfsense router)
Primary DNS Server 192.168.1.5 (Win PDC)
Secondary DNS Server 192.168.1.1 (pfsense router)

Is THIS correct I dout because stil no ping google.com

In DNS settings
host name : server1.int.mydomain.com (It was not FQDN previously) hoopefullyu I've fixed a problem here.
Primary DNS 192.168.1.5 (WinPDC)
Secondary DNS 192.168.1.1 (pfSense)
Tertiary DNS empty
DNS search path server1.int.mydomain.com

Does that make sense.

Thank you very much for your help.

Best Regards
Franck

 

Problems fixed proceding with ddns setup

Hey Quaxth, Till,

I have managed to fix all basic problems with my ISPConfig setup

I am now moving with the DNS Setup

Regards
Franck

 

Hey,

I need to setup my subdomain.

I have implemented DynDNS to fix my dynamic public address issue.
I have made proper redirection with my public host with a CNAME record.
I can now ping my internal domain name.

The setup for my ISPconfig Server and DNS is like this.

Server:

IP: 192.168.1.5 / 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.1.1
hostname is webserver1.sub.myhosteddomain.com​

DNS Zone:

Zone(SOA): ns1.sub.myhosteddomain.com​

DNS Zone records:

A sub.myhosteddomain.com 192.168.1.5
A mail 192.168.1.5
A www 192.168.1.5
MX sub.myhosteddomain.com mail.sub.myhosteddomain.com.
NS sub.myhosteddomain.com ns2.sub.myhosteddomain.com.
NS sub.myhosteddomain.com ns1.sub.myhosteddomain.com.​

Problems:
When I nslookup my LAN my internal domain it displays the ip of my Windows PDC. ???
When I nslookup the WAN I get
Non-authoritative answer:
sub.myhosteddomain.com canonical name = sub777.DynDNS.org.
Name: sub777.DynDNS.org
Address: 204.12.27.11 (my router WAN ip)

So something is working!

If I try to nslookup my webserver1.sub.myhosteddomain.com or my winpdc.sub.myhosteddomain.com
I get noting and an error: namerror.

Any sugestion or adive would help greatly.

Best Regards
Franck

 

I'm not sure you could get Dynamic DNS working on ISPCopnfig.

Problem seems to be that the IP isn't rsolving to your own server, instead to the DynDNS Server. I don't know and never worked with DynDNS, in NO-IP that problem could be solved if you use, and pay for it, and enhanced Service. As free Service, it wouldn't work either.

You may run an normal website via DynDNS, that would work, but and Hosting Site and Server.

If I'm wrong, and hopefully I am(!), the experts from Germany could explain.