How to access my websites from intranet

[n1kol1s]

Hi all

I have to explain first what i want to do with my server so you can undarstend my question...

I have a standalone server setup with the perfectsetup fedora 5 with ispconfig installed.
i created a dydns account and my site works from the internet.
My network has a wireless access point and i want users/clients to access the websites without the internet access and dydns service.
How do i do that?

i can access from the internet with my dydns account or my dynamic internet ip but how do i access with the intranet static ip http://10.10.64.165 ? the http://10.10.64.165:81 works perfectly and the virtual ip http://10.10.64.166 that has no site configured from ispconfig, only the fedora welcome page comes up.

i loose any access of my site when i have my adsl modem off..
i wanna be able to access the sites without the internet so i dont get charged downloads.

and what would be the anonymus ftp syntax for users to access my anonumus ftp?

i believe this questions have been answered b4 and you will probably get anoyed so thank you in advance for your time..
and keep up the good work!
Nick
P.S. no good english, i know.lol:rolleyes:

[till]

Hi all

I have to explain first what i want to do with my server so you can undarstend my question...

I have a standalone server setup with the perfectsetup fedora 5 with ispconfig installed.
i created a dydns account and my site works from the internet.
My network has a wireless access point and i want users/clients to access the websites without the internet access and dydns service.
How do i do that?

i can access from the internet with my dydns account or my dynamic internet ip but how do i access with the intranet static ip http://10.10.64.165 ? the http://10.10.64.165:81 works perfectly and the virtual ip http://10.10.64.166 that has no site configured from ispconfig, only the fedora welcome page comes up.

You can add a line to your hosts file on windows to bypass your router and the DNS system and point your domain directly to your internal IP.

add a line like this:

10.10.64.165 www.yourdomain.com

When you enter www.yourdomain.com in your webbrowser, you will get your website from your internal server directly.

[n1kol1s]

i did that but i get a shared ip error in ispconfig...
how about if i disable comlpetly the internet connection of the server, will i be able to resolve sites by typing names instand of ip's
How can i do that or if is not posible how can i access any site i create with its ip address without getting the shared ip error and not to have to edit every pc host file?
thanks
nikolis

[fobicodam]

i did that but i get a shared ip error in ispconfig...
how about if i disable comlpetly the internet connection of the server, will i be able to resolve sites by typing names instand of ip's
How can i do that or if is not posible how can i access any site i create with its ip address without getting the shared ip error and not to have to edit every pc host file?
thanks
nikolis

It could be nice for future releases to create a standard hostname like :

domain.maindomain.com

every time a new site is created... that way client can get access to the site without dnss redirection...

[falko]

i did that but i get a shared ip error in ispconfig...
how about if i disable comlpetly the internet connection of the server, will i be able to resolve sites by typing names instand of ip's
How can i do that or if is not posible how can i access any site i create with its ip address without getting the shared ip error and not to have to edit every pc host file?
thanks
nikolis
What's in your Vhosts_ispconfig.conf?
What's the output of ifconfig?

[falko]

It could be nice for future releases to create a standard hostname like :

domain.maindomain.com

every time a new site is created... that way client can get access to the site without dnss redirection...
But domain.maindomain.com has to exist in DNS...

[n1kol1s]

If that helps ,
I have reinstall everything but when i try to use static ip i cant download anything so i i have to choose dhcp and manualy i put my localhost.localdomain entry wich is nikolis.nservers.com
now the output of the ifconfig is:
[root@nikolis ~]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:85:C7:A8:9D
inet addr:10.10.64.163 Bcast:10.10.64.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::214:85ff:fec7:a89d/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:148 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:156 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:16980 (16.5 KiB) TX bytes:23973 (23.4 KiB)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0xa800

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:66 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:66 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:16583 (16.1 KiB) TX bytes:16583 (16.1 KiB)
[root@nikolis ~]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:85:C7:A8:9D
inet addr:10.10.64.163 Bcast:10.10.64.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::214:85ff:fec7:a89d/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:148 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:156 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:16980 (16.5 KiB) TX bytes:23973 (23.4 KiB)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0xa800

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:66 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:66 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:16583 (16.1 KiB) TX bytes:16583 (16.1 KiB)

i cant find the vhost file. were is it?
nikolis

[falko]

i cant find the vhost file. were is it?
nikolisYou mean Vhosts_ispconfig.conf? It might be in /etc/httpd/conf or /etc/apache/conf or /etc/apache2/conf or similar.

[n1kol1s]

pls inform me if there is an error in these outputs
tnx
nikolis

###################################
#
# ISPConfig vHost Configuration File
# Version 1.0
#
###################################
#
#
#
######################################
# Vhost: nikolis.nservers.com:80
######################################
#
#
<VirtualHost 10.10.64.165:80>
ServerName nikolis.nservers.com:80
ServerAdmin webmaster@nservers.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/web1/web
ServerAlias nservers.com
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php index.php5 index.php4 index.php3 index.shtml index.cgi index.pl index.jsp Default.htm default.htm
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/web1/cgi-bin/
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
AddHandler cgi-script .pl
ErrorLog /var/www/web1/log/error.log
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3 .php4 .php5
<Files *.php>
SetOutputFilter PHP
SetInputFilter PHP
</Files>
<Files *.php3>
SetOutputFilter PHP
SetInputFilter PHP
</Files>
<Files *.php4>
SetOutputFilter PHP
SetInputFilter PHP
</Files>
<Files *.php5>
SetOutputFilter PHP
SetInputFilter PHP
</Files>
php_admin_flag safe_mode On
php_admin_value open_basedir /var/www/web1/
php_admin_value file_uploads 1
php_admin_value upload_tmp_dir /var/www/web1/phptmp/
php_admin_value session.save_path /var/www/web1/phptmp/
AddType text/html .shtml
AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml
AddType application/vnd.wap.wmlscriptc .wmlsc .wsc
AddType text/vnd.wap.wml .wml
AddType text/vnd.wap.wmlscript .ws .wmlscript
AddType image/vnd.wap.wbmp .wbmp
Alias /error/ "/var/www/web1/web/error/"
ErrorDocument 400 /error/invalidSyntax.html
ErrorDocument 401 /error/authorizationRequired.html
ErrorDocument 403 /error/forbidden.html
ErrorDocument 404 /error/fileNotFound.html
ErrorDocument 405 /error/methodNotAllowed.html
ErrorDocument 500 /error/internalServerError.html
ErrorDocument 503 /error/overloaded.html
AliasMatch ^/~([^/]+)(/(.*))? /var/www/web1/user/$1/web/$3
AliasMatch ^/users/([^/]+)(/(.*))? /var/www/web1/user/$1/web/$3
</VirtualHost>
#


[root@nikolis vhosts]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:85:C7:A8:9D
inet addr:10.10.64.164 Bcast:10.10.64.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::214:85ff:fec7:a89d/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4597865 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2269523 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:640871797 (611.1 MiB) TX bytes:123297855 (117.5 MiB)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0xa800

eth0:0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:85:C7:A8:9D
inet addr:10.10.64.165 Bcast:10.10.64.187 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:18 Base address:0xa800

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:227 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:227 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:25984 (25.3 KiB) TX bytes:25984 (25.3 KiB)

[falko]

Isn't there a NameVirtualHost line in Vhosts_ispconfig.conf? :confused:

[n1kol1s]

somehow there is today lol!!!! ?????
###################################
#
# ISPConfig vHost Configuration File
# Version 1.0
#
###################################
#
:confused: NameVirtualHost 10.10.64.165:80
<VirtualHost 10.10.64.165:80>
ServerName localhost
ServerAdmin root@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/sharedip
</VirtualHost>
#
#
######################################
# Vhost: nikolis.nservers.com:80
######################################
#
#
<VirtualHost 10.10.64.165:80>
ServerName nikolis.nservers.com:80
ServerAdmin webmaster@nservers.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/web1/web
ServerAlias nservers.com
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php index.php5 index.php4 index.php3 index.shtml index.cgi index.pl index.jsp Default.htm default.htm
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/web1/cgi-bin/
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
AddHandler cgi-script .pl
ErrorLog /var/www/web1/log/error.log
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3 .php4 .php5
<Files *.php>
SetOutputFilter PHP
SetInputFilter PHP
</Files>
<Files *.php3>
SetOutputFilter PHP
SetInputFilter PHP
</Files>
<Files *.php4>
SetOutputFilter PHP
SetInputFilter PHP
</Files>
<Files *.php5>
SetOutputFilter PHP
SetInputFilter PHP
</Files>
php_admin_flag safe_mode On
php_admin_value open_basedir /var/www/web1/
php_admin_value file_uploads 1
php_admin_value upload_tmp_dir /var/www/web1/phptmp/
php_admin_value session.save_path /var/www/web1/phptmp/
AddType text/html .shtml
AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml
AddType application/vnd.wap.wmlscriptc .wmlsc .wsc
AddType text/vnd.wap.wml .wml
AddType text/vnd.wap.wmlscript .ws .wmlscript
AddType image/vnd.wap.wbmp .wbmp
Alias /error/ "/var/www/web1/web/error/"
ErrorDocument 400 /error/invalidSyntax.html
ErrorDocument 401 /error/authorizationRequired.html
ErrorDocument 403 /error/forbidden.html
ErrorDocument 404 /error/fileNotFound.html
ErrorDocument 405 /error/methodNotAllowed.html
ErrorDocument 500 /error/internalServerError.html
ErrorDocument 503 /error/overloaded.html
AliasMatch ^/~([^/]+)(/(.*))? /var/www/web1/user/$1/web/$3
AliasMatch ^/users/([^/]+)(/(.*))? /var/www/web1/user/$1/web/$3
</VirtualHost>
#
#
#

[n1kol1s]

Maybe i missed copy paste function but now is it lloks ok..pls have a lookif it is ok.

###################################
#
# ISPConfig vHost Configuration File
# Version 1.0
#
###################################
#
NameVirtualHost 10.10.64.163:80
<VirtualHost 10.10.64.163:80>
ServerName localhost
ServerAdmin root@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/sharedip
</VirtualHost>
#
#
######################################
# Vhost: nikolis.nservers.com:80
######################################
#
#
<VirtualHost 10.10.64.163:80>
ServerName nikolis.nservers.com:80
ServerAdmin webmaster@nservers.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/web1/web
ServerAlias nservers.com
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php index.php5 index.php4 index.php3 index.shtml index.cgi index.pl index.jsp Default.htm default.htm
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/web1/cgi-bin/
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
AddHandler cgi-script .pl
ErrorLog /var/www/web1/log/error.log
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3 .php4 .php5
<Files *.php>
SetOutputFilter PHP
SetInputFilter PHP
</Files>
<Files *.php3>
SetOutputFilter PHP
SetInputFilter PHP
</Files>
<Files *.php4>
SetOutputFilter PHP
SetInputFilter PHP
</Files>
<Files *.php5>
SetOutputFilter PHP
SetInputFilter PHP
</Files>
php_admin_flag safe_mode On
</Files>
php_admin_flag safe_mode On
php_admin_value open_basedir /var/www/web1/
php_admin_value file_uploads 1
php_admin_value upload_tmp_dir /var/www/web1/phptmp/
php_admin_value session.save_path /var/www/web1/phptmp/
AddType text/html .shtml
AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml
AddType application/vnd.wap.wmlscriptc .wmlsc .wsc
AddType text/vnd.wap.wml .wml
AddType text/vnd.wap.wmlscript .ws .wmlscript
AddType image/vnd.wap.wbmp .wbmp
Alias /error/ "/var/www/web1/web/error/"
ErrorDocument 400 /error/invalidSyntax.html
ErrorDocument 401 /error/authorizationRequired.html
ErrorDocument 403 /error/forbidden.html
ErrorDocument 404 /error/fileNotFound.html
ErrorDocument 405 /error/methodNotAllowed.html
ErrorDocument 500 /error/internalServerError.html
ErrorDocument 503 /error/overloaded.html
AliasMatch ^/~([^/]+)(/(.*))? /var/www/web1/user/$1/web/$3
AliasMatch ^/users/([^/]+)(/(.*))? /var/www/web1/user/$1/web/$3
</VirtualHost>
#
#
#

"Vhosts_ispconfig.conf" [noeol] 72L, 2122C

[falko]

Is this your public IP address? 66.37.16.155
When I go to http://nikolis.nservers.com , I see one of those landing pages...

dig nikolis.nservers.com

; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> nikolis.nservers.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 25956
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;nikolis.nservers.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
nikolis.nservers.com. 1800 IN CNAME parking.domainportfolio.ca.
parking.domainportfolio.ca. 3600 IN A 66.37.16.155

;; Query time: 345 msec
;; SERVER: 81.169.163.104#53(81.169.163.104)
;; WHEN: Sat Jun 24 14:40:12 2006
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 94Do you see the shared IP page when you go to http://10.10.64.163 ?

[n1kol1s]

The 66.37.16.155 must comming from dydns.com my dynamic ip sould start like that 220.253.41.40 thats the one atm but youll neva know...
my nikolis.nserver.com has configured by dhcp at the ip 10.10.64.163 witch is configured as static from my routet and the web site nikolis.nservers.com is hosted by my manualy added virtual ip 10.10.64.165 I'm going to disable the dydns.com for the time been so you dont get more confused...
thanks for your time
nikolis

[n1kol1s]

Actualy to make your life easier i reinstall everything and ill disable the dydns
my localhost.localdomain is wrl.nswserver.com the last one i used it was regitered already that why you were getting 66.37.16.155 . this one i make sure is not registered . the internal ip is 10.10.64.165
sorry and thanks...
nikolis

[n1kol1s]

now i use only manualy added static ip and dns servers pointing to my isp dns and i get shared ip whateva i do or try...
latest vhost is

###################################
#
# ISPConfig vHost Configuration File
# Version 1.0
#
###################################
#
NameVirtualHost 10.10.64.165:80
<VirtualHost 10.10.64.165:80>
ServerName localhost
ServerAdmin root@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/sharedip
</VirtualHost>
#
#
######################################
# Vhost: wrl.nswserver.com:80
######################################
#
#
<VirtualHost 10.10.64.165:80>
ServerName wrl.nswserver.com:80
ServerAdmin webmaster@nswserver.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/web1/web
ServerAlias nswservers.com
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php index.php5 index.php4 index.php3 index.shtml index.cgi index.pl index.jsp Default.htm default.htm
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/web1/cgi-bin/
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
AddHandler cgi-script .pl
ErrorLog /var/www/web1/log/error.log
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3 .php4 .php5
<Files *.php>
SetOutputFilter PHP
SetInputFilter PHP
</Files>
<Files *.php3>
SetOutputFilter PHP
SetInputFilter PHP
</Files>
<Files *.php4>
SetOutputFilter PHP
SetInputFilter PHP
</Files>
<Files *.php5>
SetOutputFilter PHP
SetInputFilter PHP
</Files>
php_admin_flag safe_mode On
php_admin_value open_basedir /var/www/web1/
php_admin_value file_uploads 1
php_admin_value upload_tmp_dir /var/www/web1/phptmp/
php_admin_value session.save_path /var/www/web1/phptmp/
AddType text/html .shtml
AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml
AddType application/vnd.wap.wmlscriptc .wmlsc .wsc
AddType text/vnd.wap.wml .wml
AddType text/vnd.wap.wmlscript .ws .wmlscript
AddType image/vnd.wap.wbmp .wbmp
Alias /error/ "/var/www/web1/web/error/"
ErrorDocument 400 /error/invalidSyntax.html
ErrorDocument 401 /error/authorizationRequired.html
ErrorDocument 403 /error/forbidden.html
ErrorDocument 404 /error/fileNotFound.html
ErrorDocument 405 /error/methodNotAllowed.html
ErrorDocument 500 /error/internalServerError.html
ErrorDocument 503 /error/overloaded.html
AliasMatch ^/~([^/]+)(/(.*))? /var/www/web1/user/$1/web/$3
AliasMatch ^/users/([^/]+)(/(.*))? /var/www/web1/user/$1/web/$3
</VirtualHost>
#
#
#

[falko]

nswservers.com and wrl.nswserver.com do not exist in DNS...
What address do you use in your browser?

[mphayesuk]

I know I could be barking up the wrong tree and perhaps you have tried what I am going to say... but what exactly was the error from windows when you tried to add the domain into the hosts file... I have this working on my test system so it should work.... did you try to static route that ip address to go stright to the ispconfig server.

[n1kol1s]

i had a small typo somewere along the way so the server allias was the wrong address nswserver(s).com in the vhost ispconfig file...i fix that and now the i can access the site with from windows by adding the site in the host file. any other way i try i get the shared ip error. thanks mphayesuk but i have configure my router to serve a static ip ...
i had better lucj at my last installation when i had the fc5 network configured by dhcp and my site was hosted by a virtual static ip... ..falko try again to dig wrl.nswserver.com pls . when i do i get this output:
; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> wrl.nswserver.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 59908
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;wrl.nswserver.com. IN A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
com. 900 IN SOA a.gtld-servers.net. nstld.verisign-grs.com. 1151482115 1800 900 604800 900

;; Query time: 266 msec
;; SERVER: 210.15.254.240#53(210.15.254.240)
;; WHEN: Wed Jun 28 18:09:02 2006
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 108

[falko]

I still get this:

dig wrl.nswserver.com

; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> wrl.nswserver.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 47315
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;wrl.nswserver.com. IN A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
com. 900 IN SOA a.gtld-servers.net. nstld.verisign-grs.com. 1151534793 1800 900 604800 900

;; Query time: 31 msec
;; SERVER: 81.169.163.104#53(81.169.163.104)
;; WHEN: Thu Jun 29 00:46:50 2006
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 108

[n1kol1s]

Pls help. what do i need to do...

[falko]

I've just found out that nswserver.com isn't registered:

whois nswserver.com

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.


No match for "NSWSERVER.COM".
>>> Last update of whois database: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:31:11 EDT <<<

NOTICE: The expiration date displayed in this record is the date the
registrar's sponsorship of the domain name registration in the registry is
currently set to expire. This date does not necessarily reflect the expiration
date of the domain name registrant's agreement with the sponsoring
registrar. Users may consult the sponsoring registrar's Whois database to
view the registrar's reported date of expiration for this registration.

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database through the use of electronic processes that are high-volume and
automated except as reasonably necessary to register domain names or
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The Registry database contains ONLY .COM, .NET, .EDU domains and
Registrars.
You must register that domain before you can create DNS records for it.

[n1kol1s]

im not intrested getting request of websites over the net...i want only my intranet to request websites of my server but without me having to gooo to each machine and edit their host files..i like users to logon to my intranet/lan and with not any internet connection to type wrl.nswserver.com and go to my website... doesent this setup works as a dns server aswell?

and if you can pls tell me what would be the anonymus ftp syntax of the site wrl.nswserver.com the user ftp is working but i cant log on anonymusly .
thanks again for all your help. much apreciated
nikolis

[falko]

im not intrested getting request of websites over the net...i want only my intranet to request websites of my server but without me having to gooo to each machine and edit their host files..i like users to logon to my intranet/lan and with not any internet connection to type wrl.nswserver.com and go to my website... doesent this setup works as a dns server aswell?Then you must set up a DNS server in your LAN and tell your client PCs to use this DNS server. On that DNS server you can then create records for nswserver.com.

and if you can pls tell me what would be the anonymus ftp syntax of the site wrl.nswserver.com the user ftp is working but i cant log on anonymusly .
thanks again for all your help. much apreciated
nikolisYou can use any FQDN or IP address that points to your server.