Re: Question for you network/DNS/Apache gurus;
On Tue, 2013-10-15 at 16:52 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> 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.
I have at the suggestion of another added the vhost alias apache module.
The site is a simple absolutely addressed site, It does not & I have no
plans to host any other sites on this VPS server.
Thanks
John
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