[ncolug] Re: Apache2 question

  • From: "M. Knisely" <charon79m@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: ncolug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:48:34 -0500

I'd like to echo Chuck's statements.  I ran into so many oddities when I put
in my own email, web, game, ftp, etc servers here that I just ended up
option for an intenal DNS server to handle everything instead of trying to
manage things though hosts.  It was just a lot easier.

**OT**Perhaps FOSS DNS servers should be part of our lecture series!?!?

Mike K.

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:02 PM, <cstickelman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think this example can underscore a concept that we should all
> appreciate:
> If DNS (or name-resolution in general) ain't happy, your network ain't
> happy.
>
> In many networks DNS is a linchpin service.  So much can be done w/ it, and
> it becomes central to so many services, that if it's broken *nothing* will
> work as expected.
>
> Well done Rob!
> Chuck
>
> ---- Rob Gibson <nosbig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > To describe the answer to the solution, we needed a little more
> > context that was not available in the original mail to the list.
> >
> > Ken was getting a different response to his browsing when trying to
> > visit the site from the local machine and remote machines.
> >
> > This threw my instinct to worrying about DNS/vhosts...  I asked Ken
> > how he was browsing to the sites, as there would be a distinct
> > difference to Apache of browsing to http://192.168.1.x versus
> > http://127.0.0.1.  He replied that he was browsing to kc8tdw.com on
> > each machine; I asked what does that name resolve to on each machine.
> >
> > Ken then wrote that on the local machine for the webserver, kc8tdw.com
> > was listed 3 times, as was in his /etc/hosts file:
> > 127.0.0.1     kc8tdw.com     localhost.localdomain     localhost
> > 127.0.0.1     kc8tdw.com     kc8tdw
> > 192.168.1.65     kc8tdw.com     kc8tdw
> >
> > He asked if that looked correct...  I let him know that there should
> > only be one reference in his /etc/hosts, typically, to kc8tdw.com and
> > to removew his domain name from the first line, remove the second, and
> > leave the third line alone.
> >
> > He replied that the fix worked...  As the vhost configuration was
> > correct (since other machines could access the corect information),
> > the name resolution on the local machine was point to localhost which
> > was not configured to respond with the correct vhost.  We could have
> > also adjusted the Apache configu to present that vhost on the
> > 127.0.0.1 request, but it was a better and cleaner solution to clean
> > up the name resolution.
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:58 AM, Ken Allen <kc8tdw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > fixed, thanks Rob!
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Ken Allen <kc8tdw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On my desktop/server, if I type in kc8tdw.com, I get "It Works!".
> This is
> > >> confusing me as this is in /var/www.  In my kc8tdw.com.conf file in
> > >> /ect/apache2/sites-available, the DocumentRoot line says
> > >> /home/kc8tdw/public_html, which is correct.  So, if that is correct,
> how in
> > >> the world is it getting to /var/www, instead of
> /home/kc8tdw/public_html?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks,
> > >>
> > >> Ken
> > >>
> > >> Also, Virtualmin is up and running fine now, Horde is running but
> doing
> > >> some fine tuning on it.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Joan Crawford  - "I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar.
> > Everything I earn, I spend." -
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