Hi, I have read many atricles on here abotu DNS but maybe I am dumb or I just can't grasp the concept. I am asking for step by step instructions on how to setup my Fedora 9 with ISPConfig server to work with virtual sites. I do not uderstand hwo to set up the DNS on the sites or in ISPConfig to work with anything. At this point I only want to get this to work onmy local / private network for testing. I am not good enuff to run my sites live yet. I have the server with an IP address of 192.168.1.200 and the name is server.domain.com. I want to be able to access various virtual hosts / sites but do not know what to do. Please advise. After the Perfect Server install guide, I am feeling left hanging with no clear help on this type of setup. Thanks in advance
ok simple fix to ur problem ok i take it that ur work station is windows ? or is it linux if its linux than im on the other ATM if its windows i can help with easy step 1 . control panel -> network or Network and Sharing Center ( if in vista) step 2 find Local Area Connection -> View status -> Properties -> click the continue box that's pops up step 3. Internet Protocol ver 4 ( TCP/IPv4) step 4. Use The Following DNS Servers Addresses add in your ISPconfig box IP address than your Router / ISP DNS Server as the second one than click on ok ok ok to close the local Area Connection windows and make the changes to the DNS settings this will let you use your DNS on your WWW box as fist DNS it looks at so any sites you got there it will find them for you PM / IM me if u need help ...
Hi, thanks,I did this but I still cannot reach the sites on the server setup with ISPconfig. Maybe I have them setup wrong or missing something. My server is at 192.168.1.200 with a name server.mydomain.com I have setup a new virtual site at 192.168.1.201 with a name myvirtual.com What is wrong becasue now I cannot reach either site by domain or IP. Maybe I need something in ISPConfig DNS Management under master or slave or prt? Any thought are aprreciated!
Yes, thanks, I went and read that thread. I tottaly get this part and have done this on my clients but I still cannot reach any virtual sites. I can now reach the server home page which is www.mydomain.com on the main server IP 192.168.1.200 Prob is I cannot reach the virtual sites I create using additional IP's such as: 192.168.1.201 www.virtualdomain.com I have entered them into the clients host file as well. What am I missing.
can u do an dig command type in on your linux box dig @localhost mysite.com you should get an display printout like this [zcworld@server1 ~]$ dig @localhost vdb.site.lan ; <<>> DiG 9.5.0b2 <<>> @localhost vdb.site.lan ; (1 server found) ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 20108 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;vdb.site.lan. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: vdb.site.lan. 86400 IN A 192.168.1.25 ;; Query time: 11 msec ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) ;; WHEN: Mon Dec 1 07:21:12 2008 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 46 [zcworld@server1 ~]$ if so than change it from @localhost to the @IPADDRESS And see if thats works for you : if both not working than your DNS is the problem there as far as i can tell
This is what the output of dig gives me: Code: ; <<>> DiG 9.5.0-P2 <<>> @localhost www.testdomain.com ; (1 server found) ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 50144 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.testdomain.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.testdomain.com. 86400 IN A 192.168.1.201 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: testdomain.com. 86400 IN NS 192.168.1.1. testdomain.com. 86400 IN NS 192.168.1.200. ;; Query time: 5 msec ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) ;; WHEN: Sun Nov 30 18:42:19 2008 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 104 If i read this correctly I should be good but why no site?
What happens when you type www.virtualdomain.com into your browser? Are there any errors in the logs on the server?
Well no, that is what seem so wierd. Unless I am not sure where to look for this type of errors. All I get is a Sharred IP page when I use main apache at either the IP address of: 192.168.1.200 or the domain: mydomain.com. If I attempt to reach my first virtual site at: 192.168.1.201 or virtualdomain.com I simply get an Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage error. Please advise where I should look for potential error or glitch. I am so desperate to solve this. Thanks to everyone so far for trying to help me out!!!
Here is my ifconfig: Code: lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:1227 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1227 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:62412 (60.9 KiB) TX bytes:62412 (60.9 KiB) wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1E:58:9E:37:02 inet addr:192.168.1.200 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::21e:58ff:fe9e:3702/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:5478 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:4667 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:5095426 (4.8 MiB) TX bytes:779749 (761.4 KiB) wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-1E-58-9E-37-02-F4-4F-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) And here is the Vhosts_ispconfig.conf: Code: ################################### # # ISPConfig vHost Configuration File # Version 1.0 # ################################### # NameVirtualHost 192.168.1.200:80 <VirtualHost 192.168.1.200:80> ServerName localhost ServerAdmin root@localhost DocumentRoot /var/www/sharedip <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(TRACE|TRACK) RewriteRule .* - [F] </IfModule> </VirtualHost> NameVirtualHost 192.168.1.201:80 <VirtualHost 192.168.1.201:80> ServerName localhost ServerAdmin root@localhost DocumentRoot /var/www/sharedip <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(TRACE|TRACK) RewriteRule .* - [F] </IfModule> </VirtualHost> #
There's nothing else in Vhosts_ispconfig.conf? Can you go to the directory where Vhosts_ispconfig.conf is located and post the output of Code: ls -la ?
Here is the entire Vhosts_ispconfig.conf file, I think I missed some text when I cut and paste: Code: ###################################### # Vhost: www.virtualdomain.com:80 ###################################### # # <VirtualHost 192.168.1.201:80> ServerName www.virtualdomain.com:80 ServerAdmin [email protected] DocumentRoot /var/www/web6/web ServerAlias testdomain.com DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php index.php5 index.php4 index.php3 index.shtml index.cgi index.pl index.jsp Default.htm default.htm ErrorLog /var/www/web6/log/error.log Alias /error/ "/var/www/web6/web/error/" ErrorDocument 400 /error/invalidSyntax.html ErrorDocument 401 /error/authorizationRequired.html ErrorDocument 403 /error/forbidden.html ErrorDocument 404 /error/fileNotFound.html ErrorDocument 405 /error/methodNotAllowed.html ErrorDocument 500 /error/internalServerError.html ErrorDocument 503 /error/overloaded.html AliasMatch ^/~([^/]+)(/(.*))? /var/www/web6/user/$1/web/$3 AliasMatch ^/users/([^/]+)(/(.*))? /var/www/web6/user/$1/web/$3 <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(TRACE|TRACK) RewriteRule .* - [F] </IfModule> </VirtualHost> # # # ls -ls output is: Code: total 16 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-11-24 23:31 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2008-11-24 23:20 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1830 2008-12-02 21:25 Vhosts_ispconfig.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1830 2008-12-02 21:25 Vhosts_ispconfig.conf~
Ok, you have a ServerName of www.virtualdomain.com and a ServerAlias of testdomain.com - this means you can use either www.virtualdomain.com or testdomain.com in your browser, nothing else - not virtualdomain.com (without www), not www.testdomain.com, etc.
I see that. I found it strange as I had deleted the testdomain.com site earlier. It was from a first test tried with failure. I have deleted all sites and all DNS entries in ISPConfig. Gonna start from scratch again. My Vhosts_ispconfig.conf is now empty as well. I am tempted to reinstall ISPConfig but I fear I might only make things worse if I do not remove properly. I have deleted all clients and resellers in ISPConfig, only my admin account and I will attempt to create 1 new client called Test and 1 new site called testvsite.com and still have nothing but "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" here is what is in my new Vhosts_ispconfig.conf output: Code: ################################### # # ISPConfig vHost Configuration File # Version 1.0 # ################################### # NameVirtualHost 192.168.1.200:80 <VirtualHost 192.168.1.200:80> ServerName localhost ServerAdmin root@localhost DocumentRoot /var/www/sharedip <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(TRACE|TRACK) RewriteRule .* - [F] </IfModule> </VirtualHost> NameVirtualHost 192.168.1.201:80 <VirtualHost 192.168.1.201:80> ServerName localhost ServerAdmin root@localhost DocumentRoot /var/www/sharedip <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(TRACE|TRACK) RewriteRule .* - [F] </IfModule> </VirtualHost> # # ###################################### # Vhost: www.testvsite.com:80 ###################################### # # <VirtualHost 192.168.1.201:80> ServerName www.testvsite.com:80 ServerAdmin [email protected] DocumentRoot /var/www/web8/web ServerAlias testvsite.com DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php index.php5 index.php4 index.php3 index.shtml index.cgi index.pl index.jsp Default.htm default.htm ErrorLog /var/www/web8/log/error.log Alias /error/ "/var/www/web8/web/error/" ErrorDocument 400 /error/invalidSyntax.html ErrorDocument 401 /error/authorizationRequired.html ErrorDocument 403 /error/forbidden.html ErrorDocument 404 /error/fileNotFound.html ErrorDocument 405 /error/methodNotAllowed.html ErrorDocument 500 /error/internalServerError.html ErrorDocument 503 /error/overloaded.html AliasMatch ^/~([^/]+)(/(.*))? /var/www/web8/user/$1/web/$3 AliasMatch ^/users/([^/]+)(/(.*))? /var/www/web8/user/$1/web/$3 <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(TRACE|TRACK) RewriteRule .* - [F] </IfModule> </VirtualHost> # # # I figure something still wrong as I can't get the www.testvsite.com to come up in a browser by domain or ip address. I can reach the localhost page if that means anything. I dunno if it is time to reinstall the entire OS and start again, it just seems odd. Not sure what I am doing wrong. I do appreciate the help you have been providing. I just don't get what is wrong here.
Yes it is the last line in that file. Any other places to detect and error? This is strange. Do you recommed that I try to romove and reinstall my ISPConfig or reinstal the entire distribution? Thanks,
So you have put www.testvsite.com into your client PC's host file and still cannot connect to the web site? What does Code: nslookup www.testvsite.com on the client return (you can run this command even on a Windows box)?
Yes, I have the following line in my host file on my windows client: Code: 192.168.1.201 www.testvsite.com testvsite.com From the windows box nslookup output is: Code: Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6001] Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\LDJ>nslookup www.testvsite.com Server: UnKnown Address: 192.168.1.200 *** UnKnown can't find www.testvsite.com: Non-existent domain And nslookup from the server console I get this output: Code: Server: 192.168.1.1 Address: 192.168.1.1#53 ** server can't find testvsite.com: NXDOMAIN So I am assuming there is a DNS problem... I tried to ping www.testvsite.com and get this output: Code: From 192.168.1.200 icmp_seq=50 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.1.200 icmp_seq=51 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.1.200 icmp_seq=52 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.1.200 icmp_seq=54 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.1.200 icmp_seq=55 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.1.200 icmp_seq=56 Destination Host Unreachable I'm not having much luck...
Are you using some kind of personal firewall on your Windows system that prevents that the hosts file can be altered or that the entries in that file are followed?
