Server :: VHost And Configuring VPS - Importance Of Hostname?
Jan 23, 2010
During a request of a VPS, the provider asks me for a hostname and for the VPS I have requested which will run on a Debian. I entered 'dryaf' as hostname. What I want to do with this VPS is to point a website to its IP. I learn that I can create a vhost and configure VPS to redirect each domain name to its folder using vhost but I didn't learn any importance for hostname I don't think it should be mandatory localhost or has the form domain1.com so during request I just tipped dryaf for the hostname of the VPS. Should the hostname follows a special rule for giving it a name or no?
I have two sites (actually more) configured in apache2. All sites have their own vhost file, which I enable or disable with a2enmod or a2dismod.
This works fine.
I have configured some SSL sites inside the vhost files, where I have created two different certificates. One for each site.
BUT, if I enable example2.com, it will always load the certificate from webmail.example1.com when i go to the ssl site webmail.example2.com, nomather what (because it comes first in the alphabet maybe) ?.
If I then uncomment the SSL site for example1.com if will work fine with webmail.example2.com, but of course then the site for webmail.example1.com is not working since it is uncommented.
So for some reason, it "falls back" to this site webmail.example1.com everytime, which I have absolutely no idea why it does this. All the other vhost running on port 80 configurations, works fine, but just not the SSL (port 443 ones).
I just added a ssl vhost.php files are not running on it, they just get downloaded when I click them. All my non-ssl vhosts were added by the admin software of my hosting company, but I had to manually add the vhost entry for my ssl vhost.Here is the entry I added for my ssl vhost:
I am trying to add a second vhost to my once working apache config. Now I have things really bollixed up and cannot access anything. I am getting a error 400. The access log shows this:
Here my setup of Apache : I have two virtual hosts on separate IP and on both I am using port :80 one is main website domain.name and another webmail.domain.name. And to get full link path I am using index.html with redirection derectives. My question how I can setup each Vhost to he is own redirection directive to set two full link like: when type webmail.domainname -----> redirect to webmail.domainname/horde/imp/file.php and www.domainname ------> redirect to www.domainname/csr/ Right now working only one of this Vhosts, just problem to separate them when I type www.domainname -----> apache redirect to webmail.domainname.
I have looked around a while for the answer, but nothing really fits. Here is the scenario. I have one server and a few openvz VE's running. I want to be able to auth whatever possible with LDAP. I have an LDAP server setup on the host and auth works for the server users. The tricky part for me is that every VE has their own domain. and if I can do that, they will also have the same login for their VE on said domain. I can setup users and the required software on the hosts and guest, but I guess I am confused at how to manage the multiple domain part of things.
not sure if proftp can do 'name based' stuff like apache, but if it can, we can point ftp.clientdomain.foo to the main server and handle it that way.
I have a lot virtual hosts running on Apache. Directory browsing is enabled on every single vhost (by default), and I want to disable this globally. Been searching and struggling with this for some time now, but can't seem to get it right. I have tried following in my apache2.conf
Code: <Directory /var/www/> Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None </Directory> Also tried following in /sites-available/default
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I know I can throw "Options -Indexes" on every single vhost, but it must be possible to do this globally.What am I doing wrong?
I understand that md5sum had some faults where it would get the same checksum on 2 different files.What exactly are the benefits of sha256sum compared to sha1sum?
What is the importance of 'module-volume-restore' in Pulseaudio configuration file(/etc/pulse/default.pa)? The Login sound on my Lucid desktop is very loud.Upon searching,i found that above(module) can be the cause of the problem.
I have a network of 2 WinXP machines and one linux box. I have fiddled around with the settings as you do when learning. The network is working. The network neighbourhood on the WinXP machines recognise the linux box and vice versa, (the linux Places|Network recognises the 2 WinXP). I can Ping the linux box using its hostname from a WinXp. But I cannot do the reverse. I get an 'unknown host' response. I can ping the linux to itself using its hostname.
I'm having an issue on two Fedora Core 13 machines where I can ping others by hostname, but the hostname resolution fails whenever I use ssh/scp/vnc/etc. I can still do these things by IP address, just not by hostname. RHEL5.3 machines on the same network with the same configuration do not seem to have this problem.
Here's the not-so-quick-and-dirty description of the situation:
I know that there is a virtual router at 192.168.31.1 and another at 192.168.30.1. I also know that there is another network (let's call it 90.90.90.0) and on that network lies a number of resources. By nature of this configuration, any machine on 90.90.90.0 can be accessed by any 192.168.x.x, but not the other way around. Beyond that is out of my hands and currently out of my scope of knowledge.
I have a dnsmasq server on 90.90.90.10 that operates as a secondary nameserver, another machine out of my sphere of influence is the primary nameserver (90.90.90.31).
The secondary nameserver on 90.90.90.10 holds the hostnames of our development machines. The problem is that in some cases, while I can ping by hostname all day long, services such as ssh, scp, vncviewer, etc all fail to resolve the hostname. In other cases I can do all of these things.
Every machine has an equivalent resolv.conf:
As an example, I will show the output of a handful of my development machines:
I also included columbia as a one-way test -- even though it cannot access 30.x or 31.x, they can access it:
columbia -- physical machine, Red Hat Enterprise 5.3, IP 192.168.100.200
Okay, so here are the various outputs. Remember, nibbler, discovery, and atlantis can ALL: - Ping by IP address - Ping by hostname - ssh, scp, vnc, etc by IP addess
Additionally, the SERVFAIL reply from 90.90.90.31 is expected since my dnsmasq server is on the secondary server.
Note that the only machine that can both ping and ssh/scp/etc by hostname is nibbler, which also happens to be the only one of the three running RHEL5.3 instead of FC13. Other virtual and physical machines running on the 192.168.31.0 and 192.168.30.0 networks (all running RHEL5.3) work just like nibbler does. So the problem seems to only affect machines running FC13.
Final note: selinux is disabled, iptables is disabled, ip6tables is disabled.
Other than that, discovery is a brand-spanking-new install straight off of the FC13 DVD. atlantis has been around longer, but its just a file server so I haven't done anything too crazy to it.
I'm trying to ping another Ubuntu computer on my local network. If I try doing,ping <hostname>then I get the messageping: unknown host <hostname>however, if I doping <hostname>.localthen I get a response back. I was wondering how I can change it so that I can ping without having to append .localI've installed winbind and modified my /etc/nsswitch.conf file but this has made no difference.
I have an ubuntu 10.04 server with hostname "abc.domain.com". However, due to migration, we had to change to hostname to something else, "xyz".
I have done changing /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname and run /etc/init.d/hostname start.
Checking the hostname and all shows it is now using hostsname of xyz. However, email sending out is still using old hostname. We have some scripts that will send out alerts like failed rsync or hdd space full to my email account. But I see the sender is still "root@abc.domain.com".
How do change that to xyz? I am using postfix. I have edited main.cf and restarted postfix but no go.
I started the mission to call my GLPI system from a hostname URL... i dont want use the IP address... but im dont know what i do!
I have Fedora 14 installed on VirtualBox running with the network interface bridge mode, fix IP address and in the dns server the name that i want is already registered... i have direct access to the network and the apache and mysql works fine... and here in my office we have a windows 2K3 domain controller and all the computers are logged in the domain... i dont know if i have to put the fedora linux in the domain or just configure something to work...
Today for use the glpi system i have to put in the URL bar: [url]
But i want: [url]
I allready look for the samba configuration to put fedora into domain, but dont works...
I have set up an Ubuntu 10.10 server with SAMBA shares and Apache web server. Everything was working fine. Then there was a power failure and after I restarted the server the XP pc's can see the server using the hostname. They can only see it using the ip adress. I haven't change anything on server or client side. Just the restart of the server.
I have read a lot of documentation but it is still hard to find a proper answer to my doubts.About the hostnames in a domain, how is it associate to a determinated port?
For example, when I type on the browser webmail.sparc86.net and then I get redirected to the port of 20000 of this same domain. Fine, but how does it work that it knows it should be redirected to the port 20000? From where is this information (the association webmail-port 20000) taken? The apache will manage this, right? But what about other services like ftp?Another example, If I wrote my own software listening, let's say on the port 40000 and I want to have a domain like "mystuff.sparc86.net" how would I let it be redirected to the port 40000 ?
i want to configure an Open LDAP server in Ubuntu....and also want it to connect to its clients, i have two machines for testing,one for client & one for server, i followed the tutorials on ubuntu documentation,but did not succeed in making either the client or the server,
I would like to install and configure Transparent squid proxy on a gateway server ,but i dont have a local OR intranet DNS server.I am facing issues do that ,regard .My IP series is 192.168.1.1/24
How do I check/setup that only the server can send mail (maybe by IP or hostname)? I have a debian server that sends mail through the PHP mail() function with no problems. The server uses sendmail. My concern is how do I make sure only the server itself can send mails through that server. Because it would be bad if spammers would use it as a relay server.
I've a fully working openvpn network but it works only using ip address.Clients should comunicate each other thought the server. To semplify the managment of clients I'd like to use their hostname instead their ip. there are a way to achieve it?Now openvpn assign ip address to the clients, but if is needed I can install other software on the server, it's a Debian machine.
how to disable or modify the email headers showing the internal IP and hostname of the server when using sendmail. I want this removed or change to just a domain name.
I have squid on my RHEL5 server and a no of windows clients ,on clients some sites opened without any error but some sites whilw opening says unable to resolve hostname ,why this kind of problem ?This may be DNS problem ,but it should happen for all address not some .
