Re: Question for you network/DNS/Apache gurus;

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

Jesse Molina wrote:
> Sounds like your Apache config may not be correct.  You should post 
> the relavant portion.
>
> You need to elaborate on "It opens the startup page but will do 
> nothing else.".  What is a startup page?  Nobody but you knows what 
> this means.
>
>
> On 10/15/13 11:50 AM, John W. Foster wrote:
> > I have a web site established on a remote hosted VPS server system.
> > I have full root access.
> > I use Debian linux on my personal system (wheezy) & on the remotely
> > hosted site (squeeze).
> > I use Godaddy as my domain registrar.
> > I have the domain for the remotely hosted VPS site set up at Godaddy.
> > I have the exact IP address set up there to forward to the VPS site with
> > masking.
> > I have a tarball based mediawiki set up on the VPS site in /var/www/
> > There are no links in /var/www/ to the site, the opening page is
> > index.php & is in this directory.
> > I simply use the "/sites-enabled/default" in apache2 to send web queries
> > to the VPS site.
> >
> > Up to here all seems to work OK.
> > Here is the issue.
> > When I try to access the mediawiki for configuration, using
> > http://my.mediawiki.net (example)  the site will not work as it should.
> > It opens the startup page but will do nothing else.
> > When I access the site with http:// 123.123.123.123 (example numerical
> > IP address) the VPS site allows the mediawiki to run the configuration &
> > setup as it should.

A critical clarifying question: is your site set up for virtual hosting 
(same IP address, multiple site names) or for absolute addressing?  
That's a fairly typical place for things to get messed up on hosted systems.

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