anyone using wordpress or even wordpressmu ?

[Tenaka]

I have severall big question to which ido not find any answer on their forums:

first of all, I am trying to setup wordpressmu, which will create blogs as subdomains, so they say I need a wildcard domain,

one user states this:

Here's what my vhost.conf looks like:

ServerAlias *.mydomain.com

<Directory /$HTTPD_VHOSTS_D/mydomain.com/httpdocs>
AllowOverride FileInfo
</Directory>

How would I achieve this in my ispcfg panel? I tried setting a * to myIP DNS record, but that does not help so far...

another requirement is: Apache FollowSymlinks must be switched on. This will disappear in later releases....

any hints for me? also Apache mod_rewrite is needed

another user states: I just told my host I wanted wildcard domains enabled, and that's what they did. and here I am, admin and all, not able to setup one myself :o

any hint is welcome...

[falko]

another requirement is: Apache FollowSymlinks must be switched on. This will disappear in later releases....


You can use the Apache Directives field in ISPConfig for it.
also Apache mod_rewrite is needed

That depends on your Apache configuration, not on ISPConfig. In most distributions mod_rewrite is already enabled.

[Tenaka]

You can use the Apache Directives field in ISPConfig for it.

I already tried that, what will happen to the lines I add there? where will ispcfg insert them? just curious what happens behind the curtains...

[till]

ISPConfig adds the lines in the vHost section of the apache configuration of this site. But first ISPConfig tests if they are valid, if not the will be commented out.

[Tenaka]

what if I want to add 2 directives? one per line or how do I add them in here?

talking about this:

Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All

leads to this:
# Options FollowSymLinks # NOT SUPPORTED!
# AllowOverride All # NOT SUPPORTED!

so where is the error? why are both not supported all of a sudden? if I only use Options FollowSymLinks it gives me no error and seems to work...

[Tenaka]

as I did not get it working I have been playing around. what I isnerted into apache directives is this:
Options FollowSymLinks
<Directory /var/www/web5>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>

and the output generated in the Vhostsfile is this:

# Vhost: www.zice.ro:80
######################################
#
#
<VirtualHost 85.214.51.208:80>
Options FollowSymLinks
<Directory /var/www/web5>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
SuexecUserGroup web5_postmaster web5
ServerName www.zice.ro:80
ServerAdmin webmaster@zice.ro
DocumentRoot /var/www/web5/web
ServerAlias zice.ro *.zice.ro


is this valid? can there be a directory inside a vhost ? is that ok? I was not sure how to do it otherwise...

[falko]

is this valid? can there be a directory inside a vhost ? is that ok? I was not sure how to do it otherwise...
Yes, this is valid.

[Tenaka]

thx.

It seems I partially solved my problem: I opened webmin, went to module options of bind (although I never used this) and changed allow wildcards from NO to YES.

now I can ping ovizii.zice.ro a blog which I had created for testpurposes... still DNS does not resolve it but I guess I am on the right way :-)

[falko]

still DNS does not resolve it but I guess I am on the right way :-)
It's working for me:
mh1:~# dig ovizii.zice.ro

; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> ovizii.zice.ro
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 10278
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ovizii.zice.ro. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
ovizii.zice.ro. 86400 IN A 85.214.51.208

;; Query time: 40 msec
;; SERVER: 81.169.163.104#53(81.169.163.104)
;; WHEN: Sat Aug 26 14:20:53 2006
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 48

[jonwatson]

Can the orignal poster (or someone else) elaborate on how to enable wildcard DNS within ISPConfig?

I need it for WordpressMU as well.

Thanks!

[Tenaka]

like I said I used webmin => servers => bind => allow wildcard DNS (/I don't know how to do this otherwise)

Then you need to setup a wildcard subdomain (dunno if this is the right term for it) but again I am unsure which of these two methods is right, I just know I did both and its working:

a) in ispcfg enter a new dns record like this: *.yourdomain.com as hostname and your IP in the IP field
b) in ispcfg enter a new dns record like this: * as hostname and your IP in the IP field

I dunno wich one is correct but having both added does no harm and works.

[jonwatson]

like I said I used webmin => servers => bind => allow wildcard DNS (/I don't know how to do this otherwise)

Then you need to setup a wildcard subdomain (dunno if this is the right term for it) but again I am unsure which of these two methods is right, I just know I did both and its working:

a) in ispcfg enter a new dns record like this: *.yourdomain.com as hostname and your IP in the IP field
b) in ispcfg enter a new dns record like this: * as hostname and your IP in the IP field

I dunno wich one is correct but having both added does no harm and works.

Thanks. I saw the post, but I was hoping for a way to part 1 within ISPConfig. However, I've mucked around a bit with your instructions and I think I have it working. I need a little more time to be sure that my DNS has propagated properly to be sure, but it looks good.