Hello there , given a task to set up a new mail server in our small company , we already have existing emails hosted by our ISP provider but we want to get rid of it as soon as our new mail server is up and running , i went thru ubuntu10.10 tutorial and i have a couples of questions before installing the mai server we already have our web server hosted by a 3rd party www.airworldtours.com is this domain what i should use instead of example.com ?? also server1.example.com wil replaced by mail.airworldtours.com please bear with me as i'm totlay new to linux and thanks in advance is there any set up that need to be done to my router i have a static ip adress
Yes, you can use airworldtours.com instead of example.com. Make sure you use a hostname that you don't use for email addresses (such as server1.airworldtours.com).
thank I finished the mail server using your guides thanks a lot but i have 2 issues I only can access phpmyadmin using my local network ip adress http://10.191.11.110/phpmyadmin but i cant acess it using my host name hattp://mail.airworldtours.com/phpmyadmin
Did you create a vhost for mail.airworldtours.com, or does that address go to the same vhost that is used when you use 10.191.11.110? If you created a vhost for mail.airworldtours.com, you must install phpMyAdmin in that vhost (or create a symlink to an existing phpMyAdmin installation; make sure that symlinks are allowed in your vhost configuration).
Hello Falko and thanks for your prompt reply i followed exactly the instructions on the how to : this my network interfaces setting : vi /etc/network/interfaces # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 10.191.11.110 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 10.191.11.0 broadcast 10.191.11.255 gateway 10.191.11.126 # dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed dns-nameservers 10.191.11.126 dns-search airworldtour.com and my vi /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdoamin localhost 10.191.11.110 mail.airworldtour.com mail # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters i reckon this server will only work on internal network , my ISP provide me with a static ip adress should i put that instead of 10.191.11.110 thanks in advance
ive fixed this issue but still my server only working on local network , i cant reach it from the internet any suggestion cheers
Please check your router settings. You must forward all needed ports from your router to your server.
