Subdomains through ISPConfig for different purposes

[wustl_2008]

I have searched through the threads and found several relevant threads but have had no luck in figuring out EXACTLY what I need to do to accomplish the following.

I am trying to run Plone/Zope for a lot of my sites and I need to have the domain use Rewrite rules and ProxyPass in order to render the information from http://example.com:8800/plone_site as http://example_domain2.com I have tried a lot of things but cannot get this to work for the life of me - is there any specific way to go about doing something like this? I've tried the directives I need in the Apache directives part of the site and have gotten the rewrite rule to work but ProxyPass rules seem to simply render an error as if the page doesn't exist at all? Any ideas / help appreciated.

I'm also trying to figure out how to create a subdomain for my webmail interface. I've seen several posts about this but I can't seem to decipher how to install a package for a NEW domain - the packages seemed to be installed for a global setting and show up inside the tools link (I'm using roundcube for my webmail). Is there specific process to go through in order to get https://webmail.example.com to display https://myserver.com:81/roundcubewebmail

As I'm sure you noticed both of these problems go hand-in-hand with very similar goals. If I can solve one I'm sure the other will fall right in line with it.

Any advice appreciated as I'm new to ISPConfig (but a long-time apache veteran). I've tried creating my own servername rules in an extra include for apache2.conf with no luck as well.

wustl_2008

[till]

I've tried creating my own servername rules in an extra include for apache2.conf with no luck as well.

In ISPConfig you can put your directives and custom rewrite rules in the apache directives window of the website, you dont have to use additional apache includes.

[wustl_2008]

Till,

I tried that before too and didn't have any luck with that but I'll see what happens when I try again ;) Thanks for the tip though.

wustl_2008

[till]

Till,

I tried that before too and didn't have any luck with that but I'll see what happens when I try again ;) Thanks for the tip though.

If your config gets commented out by ISPConfig, you can try the following procedure to debug the problem.

1) Make a backup of the file Vhost_ispconfig.conf

2) Open Vhost_ispconfig.conf in an editor, search for the vhost of your website and remoce the comments in front of the directives.

3) run "httpd -t" to get the error message from apache.

4) Either fix the error or restore your backup of Vhost_ispconfig.conf.

This procedure does not affect your running webserver as long as you dont restart it during the test.

[wustl_2008]

Thanks Till. That is a great idea. I finally got all my subdomains setup and have got webmail, phpmyadmin, and my Zope/Plone applications loading through them SOMETIMES. I can't figure out why half the time they load but the other half they don't? The only thing I can think of is if something in my DNS records is possibly wrong perhaps the queries are not getting to where they should be?

I've noticed that my nameserver records are setup by my two IPs I put in, so instead of NS ns1.mydomain.com I'm getting NS1 [IP address]. Is this a common problem in ISPConfig or did I probably set something up wrong or does it really matter?

Any other ideas as to why my subdomains only work part of the time is also greatly appreciated. ISPConfig seems like a great interface and I'd love to figure these minor bugs out so I can avoid having to do all these records by hand again ;)

Thanks,

wustl_2008

[till]

The only thing I can think of is if something in my DNS records is possibly wrong perhaps the queries are not getting to where they should be?

This sounds like a problem I had some time ago, my primary and secondary nameservers where not in sync, one server provided the right IP, the other provided an old IP address. Try to query both nameservers with dig if they return the correct IP address.

The syntax is:

dig @ns1.yournameserver.com www.yourdomian.com
dig @ns2.yournameserver.com www.yourdomian.com

I've noticed that my nameserver records are setup by my two IPs I put in, so instead of NS ns1.mydomain.com I'm getting NS1 [IP address]. Is this a common problem in ISPConfig or did I probably set something up wrong or does it really matter?

You must set the nameservers under management > server > settings on the DNS tab.

[wustl_2008]

Till,

Thanks for the great ideas. I've noticed that my DNS records are not updating when I make changes within ISPConfig. I finally (after hours of playing around and debugging) realized that a day or so ago I changed the DNS user & group names under Managment -> Server -> Settings -> DNS. I changed these to the 'bind' user as some of the other files and they seem to be getting updated now. I'll post again when I find out if this solved the problem or not (probably 24 - 48 hours to let the changes take effect). If anyone knows how to speed up the DNS cache flushing / spreading process or whatever I'm obviously a pretty pathetic newb in the DNS realm (so many years doing web development & server admin and I've managed to dodge this hectic stuff, now I know why!)

Thanks,

wustl_2008

[nenad]

Hi, did you try to change "DNSManager" ---> Options: Refresh, Expire, TimeToLive, Retry ? Try within ISPConfig, or at your DNSservice provider if you are using External DNS.

BTW Which Ditro are you using? Which Zope and Plone are you using? I need some help for seting up exactly what you did (subdomains for Zope/Plone)

[wustl_2008]

Hi, did you try to change "DNSManager" ---> Options: Refresh, Expire, TimeToLive, Retry ? Try within ISPConfig, or at your DNSservice provider if you are using External DNS.

I didn't try the DNSManager -> Options: Refresh, Expire, TimeToLive, Retry. I got so frustrated with ISPConfig not working with my DNS settings (I had to uninstall and reinstall ISPConfig a few times so I'm guessing I screwed up somewhere - but I have too much data to just try and do a clean install again or I would). Anyway, I went to an external DNS management solution and my websites and subdomains are working perfectly by just adding my subdomains as websites. ISPConfig is an amazing tool and I'm very glad to have it to save me time on my apache config files. After changing my Nameservers to point to my external DNS management tool's NS records I had instant subdomains working perfectly all the time within a half hour ;)

BTW Which Ditro are you using? Which Zope and Plone are you using? I need some help for seting up exactly what you did (subdomains for Zope/Plone)

I'm running ISPConfing (most recent release, 2.2.3 iirc?) on Ubuntu 6.06 with Python 2.3.5, Zope 2.8.7, Plone 2.1.3 AND with Python 2.4.3, Zope 2.9.3, Plone 2.5. I'll be posting a blog about how I accomplished this hopefully this weekend, but for now you may find this link http://www.zettai.net/Support/Howto/Zope27Python23Install helpful to setup more than one instance of Python/Zope/Plone at once if you're interested.

To setup ISPConfig I created a NEW website for EVERY subdomain. I started by creating the main site: domain.com
Then I created new sites for each subdomain:
mail.domain.com
zope.domain.com
zdev.domain.com

For the zope domains I added the following ProxyPass rules in the "Apache Directives" box for the subdomain website:

ProxyPass / http://www.your-domain.com:8080/VirtualHostBase/http/zope.your-domain.com:80/plone_site/VirtualHostRoot/
ProxyPassReverse / http://www.your-domain.com:8080/VirtualHostBase/http/http/zope.your-domain.com:80/plone_site/VirtualHostRoot/

To get this to work in ISPConfig I had to go into the /etc/apache2/ and some subdirectory related to proxy or includes and then find a file named "proxy.conf". In this file there is a command that I think ISPConfig adds (not certain if it is ISPConfig or just that way by default) that says something like:

<Proxy *>
deny, allow
Deny all
</Proxy>

I found a tutorial on another website showing that Proxy has to be enabled for the specific IP and site you want... I don't have the link handy but if you can't find the reference for this let me know and I'll try to find the link. Essentially you're trying to allow Proxy passing for only your IP address the zope site is on..... Search on "zope proxy apache" or something like that and you may find it (it was a tutorial on zope.org if I remember right).

I'm not sure if ISPConfig adds "mod_proxy" into Apache by default. I configured my server with the "Perfect Setup Ubuntu 6.06" guide from Howto Forge. If you can't find any proxy stuff enabled (google on how to check for mod_proxy) - I think you can enable it easily by doing something like: sudo a2enmod mod_proxy and then restarting apache2.

I hope this gives you the list of bugs I ran into and potential solutions. I'll probably try to write a tutorial about this for plone.org if I get the chance (after I post my personal blog version with links so I can remember what I did). Let me know if you run into any problems and I'll do whatever I can to help! Plone/Zope run perfectly via my zope.domain.com all day now ;)

wustl_2008

[nenad]

Thank you for your informations regarding to Zope/Plone.

As for DNS, yes, it could be quite hard to set it up via ISPConfig, especially if there is only one domain. There are suggestions that there has to be two domains, one www.techical.com (with DNS) and other website domain www.websites-domain.com , where techical.com domain is used for DNS purposes. However it is possible to set up DNS servers to work flawlessly with only one domain, but using manual non-standard (ISPConfig) setup.

Anyway, you have chosen probably the best solution: use of external DNS services.

[falko]

If anyone knows how to speed up the DNS cache flushing / spreading process or whatever I'm obviously a pretty pathetic newb in the DNS realm (so many years doing web development & server admin and I've managed to dodge this hectic stuff, now I know why!)

Have a look at the Expire, Refresh, TTL, etc. settings that are explained in this tutorial: http://www.howtoforge.com/traditional_dns_howto :)
Also check out this one: http://www.howtoforge.com/ispconfig_dns_godaddy

[nenad]

Is that tutorial that you were talking about this one?

http://www.zope.org/Members/anser/apache_zserver

I am using Debian Sarge with ISPConfig...

in which apache config file should I put:



First, we have to make sure that Apache's mod_proxy is configured and activated, so we check the following lines in httpd.conf or apache.conf:

LoadModule proxy_module libexec/apache/libproxy.so
AddModule mod_proxy.c

Now we add our inverse proxy directives, within the main <Directory> context:

ProxyPass /Zope/ http://fightclub.org:8080/
ProxyPassReverse /Zope/ http://fightclub.org:8080/

Restart Apache and that's almost it! Every request to http://www.fightclub.org/Zope/* will get passed through to the ZServer, while all other content remains under Apache's control as before.

[falko]

ProxyPass /Zope/ http://fightclub.org:8080/
ProxyPassReverse /Zope/ http://fightclub.org:8080/goes to the appropriate <Directory> section at the end of your main Apache configuration (before Vhosts_ispconfig.conf is included.

[wustl_2008]

Is that tutorial that you were talking about this one?

http://www.zope.org/Members/anser/apache_zserver

That's not the one I was talking about, but it is similar in concept. I'll see if I can find it soon as I get a chance (been swamped with server transfers right now).


in which apache config file should I put: <proxy_pass_directives>

The ProxyPass directives go through ISPConfig - not in the apche config files. You click on the website you want directed to a Zope/Plone site (full domain or subdomain are all websites in ISPConfig). At the bottom of the main page for any website you'll see a textbox for Apache Directives. This is where you're proxypass stuff will be entered.

My ProxyPass setup is like this for a subdomain:
ProxyPass / http://servername.com:8800/VirtualHostBase/http/zope.yourdomain.com:80/VirtualHostRoot/
ProxyPassReverse / http://servername.com:8800/VirtualHostBase/http/http/zope.yourdomain.com:80/VirtualHostRoot/

And like this for a full domain (entire domain uses one zope site):
ProxyPass / http://servername.com:8800/VirtualHostBase/http/yourdomain.com:80/plone_instance_name/VirtualHostRoot/
ProxyPassReverse / http://servername.com:8800/VirtualHostBase/http/http/yourdomain.com:80/plone_instance_name/VirtualHostRoot/

The first example shows how I access ALL my zope sites on a specific Zope port. Anything I can access on port 8800 with my normal setup (servername.com:8800) is now accessible from zope.mydomain.com

So the ZMI management interface (usu. from http://servername.com:8800/manage) is now accessible at: http://zope.mydomain.com/manage

The second example is setting up a domain name to be served completely by a specific Plone instance. So I want to render the Plone site at:
http://servername.com:8800/ploneSite
for the domain
http://mydomain.com

Hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions. Zope behind Apache with ISPConfig has been a breeze once I figured out that subdomains are their own website within ISPConfig and that my ProxyPass rules went inside the Apache Directives box!

[nenad]

ProxyPass /Zope/ http://fightclub.org:8080/
ProxyPassReverse /Zope/ http://fightclub.org:8080/goes to the appropriate <Directory> section at the end of your main Apache configuration (before Vhosts_ispconfig.conf is included.

OK, but what should I do with this:

LoadModule proxy_module libexec/apache/libproxy.so
AddModule mod_proxy.c

How to check or load or install apache module for proxy?

[nenad]

This is what happened when I entered Proxypass directive into ISPConfig (2.2.3) apache directive box:

# ProxyPass / http://server.201.web-hosting.co.yu:9673/VirtualHostBase/http/web-hosting.co.yu:80/default/VirtualHostRoot/ # NOT SUPPORTED!

The "NOT SUPPORTED" line was added by ISPConfig, comments "#" too

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server201:~# a2enmod proxy
Module proxy installed; run /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload to enable.
server201:~#

It seems that proxy module is installed?
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Hmmmm it seems that this have to be done too

server201:~# /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload
Forcing reload of web server: Apache2.
server201:~# a2enmod proxy
This module is already enabled!

[falko]

What's the output of ls -la /etc/apache2/mods-available and ls -la /etc/apache2/mods-enabled?

[nenad]

I resolved issue with
/etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload

or I didn't ? It seems that apache is doing redirect, ISPConfig is not complaining any more, but accepts directives...
but plone is still not working, what is not ISPConfig/Apache problem ...

server201:~# ls -la /etc/apache2/mods-available
total 248
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-06-27 00:41 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 2006-05-28 16:52 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66 2005-09-05 13:16 actions.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60 2005-09-05 13:16 asis.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 70 2005-09-05 13:16 auth_anon.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 68 2005-09-05 13:16 auth_dbm.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 74 2005-09-05 13:16 auth_digest.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 130 2005-09-05 13:16 auth_ldap.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62 2005-09-05 13:16 cache.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 70 2005-09-05 13:16 cern_meta.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 61 2005-09-05 13:16 cgid.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60 2005-09-05 13:16 cgid.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58 2006-05-28 16:52 cgi.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58 2006-05-28 16:52 cgi.load.28-05-06_16-51-49
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37 2005-09-05 13:16 dav_fs.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64 2005-09-05 13:16 dav_fs.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58 2005-09-05 13:16 dav.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66 2005-09-05 13:16 deflate.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 72 2005-09-05 13:16 disk_cache.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66 2005-09-05 13:16 expires.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 72 2005-09-05 13:16 ext_filter.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 72 2005-09-05 13:16 file_cache.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66 2005-09-05 13:16 headers.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60 2005-09-05 13:16 imap.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66 2006-05-28 16:52 include.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66 2006-05-28 16:52 include.load.28-05-06_16-51-49
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60 2005-09-05 13:16 info.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60 2005-09-05 13:16 ldap.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 70 2005-09-05 13:16 mem_cache.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 90 2005-09-05 13:16 mime_magic.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 72 2005-09-05 13:16 mime_magic.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64 2005-02-11 12:29 mod_python.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19 2006-05-28 16:52 perl.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19 2006-05-28 16:52 perl.conf.28-05-06_16-51-49
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60 2006-05-28 16:52 perl.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60 2006-05-28 16:52 perl.load.28-05-06_16-51-49
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 135 2006-05-28 16:52 php4.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 135 2006-05-28 16:52 php4.conf.28-05-06_16-51-49
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 59 2006-05-28 16:52 php4.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 59 2006-05-28 16:52 php4.load.28-05-06_16-51-49
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 840 2005-09-05 13:16 proxy.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 78 2005-09-05 13:16 proxy_connect.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 70 2005-09-05 13:16 proxy_ftp.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 103 2005-03-23 15:43 proxy_html.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 72 2005-09-05 13:16 proxy_http.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 316 2005-09-05 13:16 proxy.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66 2006-05-28 16:52 rewrite.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66 2006-05-28 16:52 rewrite.load.28-05-06_16-51-49
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66 2005-09-05 13:16 speling.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3545 2006-05-28 16:52 ssl.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3545 2006-05-28 16:52 ssl.conf.28-05-06_16-51-49
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58 2006-05-28 16:52 ssl.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58 2006-05-28 16:52 ssl.load.28-05-06_16-51-49
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64 2006-05-28 16:52 suexec.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64 2006-05-28 16:52 suexec.load.28-05-06_16-51-49
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 70 2005-09-05 13:16 unique_id.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 244 2006-05-28 16:52 userdir.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 244 2006-05-28 16:52 userdir.conf.28-05-06_16-51-49
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66 2006-05-28 16:52 userdir.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66 2006-05-28 16:52 userdir.load.28-05-06_16-51-49
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 70 2005-09-05 13:16 usertrack.load
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 74 2005-09-05 13:16 vhost_alias.load
---------------------------------------------------------------------
server201:~# ls -la /etc/apache2/mods-enabled
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-06-29 13:16 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 2006-05-28 16:52 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 2006-05-28 15:01 cgi.load -> /etc/apache2/mods-available/cgi.load
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 2006-05-28 15:20 include.load -> /etc/apache2/mods-available/include.load
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 2006-06-27 00:41 mod_python.load -> ../mods-available/mod_python.load
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 2006-05-28 15:02 perl.conf -> /etc/apache2/mods-available/perl.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 2006-05-28 15:02 perl.load -> /etc/apache2/mods-available/perl.load
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 2006-05-28 15:01 php4.conf -> /etc/apache2/mods-available/php4.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 133 2006-05-28 15:19 php4.conf~
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 2006-05-28 15:01 php4.load -> /etc/apache2/mods-available/php4.load
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 2006-06-29 13:16 proxy.conf -> /etc/apache2/mods-available/proxy.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 2006-06-27 00:40 proxy_html.load -> /etc/apache2/mods-available/proxy_html.load
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 2006-06-29 13:16 proxy.load -> /etc/apache2/mods-available/proxy.load
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 2006-05-28 15:20 rewrite.load -> /etc/apache2/mods-available/rewrite.load
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 2006-05-28 15:20 ssl.conf -> /etc/apache2/mods-available/ssl.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 2006-05-28 15:20 ssl.load -> /etc/apache2/mods-available/ssl.load
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 2006-05-28 15:20 suexec.load -> /etc/apache2/mods-available/suexec.load
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 2006-05-28 14:44 userdir.conf -> /etc/apache2/mods-available/userdir.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 2006-05-28 14:44 userdir.load -> /etc/apache2/mods-available/userdir.load

[wustl_2008]

Nenad,

The proxy directive for Plone is very picky as it adds in VirtualHostBase and VirtualHostRoot. Check a few posts above and make sure you use the one that is appropriate for your situation. If you want you can post your ProxyPass directives so I can see if they look right?

How do you know the proxy redirect is working and that it is Plone? If you go to your domain (or subdomain) what is the output of it? What kind of error are you getting.

It definitely seems like you've got the proxy stuff enabled in Apache - have you checked /apache2/mods-available/proxy.conf or /apache2/proxy.conf to make sure that * is not disallowed? I think I posted earlier with the change that needs to be made there to allow ProxyPass to receive requests for your Zope IP?

Also, to make sure that Plone/Zope are working just navigate to the http://[IP]:[port]/[plone_instance] that you have Zope and Plone running on. If those load while you are doing these tests you'll know Plone and Zope are doing their part - and that they are not the problem.

-Steven

[nenad]

I just realised that prxy was DISABLED:

<IfModule mod_proxy.c>

#turning ProxyRequests on and allowing proxying from all may allow
#spammers to use your proxy to send email.

ProxyRequests Off

<Proxy *>
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
#Allow from .your_domain.com
</Proxy>

# Enable/disable the handling of HTTP/1.1 "Via:" headers.
# ("Full" adds the server version; "Block" removes all outgoing Via: headers)
# Set to one of: Off | On | Full | Block

ProxyVia On

# To enable the cache as well, edit and uncomment the following lines:
# (no cacheing without CacheRoot)

CacheRoot "/var/cache/apache2/proxy"
CacheSize 5
CacheGcInterval 4
CacheMaxExpire 24
CacheLastModifiedFactor 0.1
CacheDefaultExpire 1
# Again, you probably should change this.
#NoCache a_domain.com another_domain.edu joes.garage_sale.com

</IfModule>

What should I change there?

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++

And I found this too:
http://www.zope.org/Members/ajlouie/proxypassdebian

ProxyPass /Zope/ http://fightclub.org:8080/
ProxyPassReverse /Zope/ http://fightclub.org:8080/

This will not work on some server configurations (ie Debian). Instead of the above, try:

ProxyPass /Zope/ http://localhost:8080/
ProxyPassReverse /Zope/ http://localhost:8080/

[nenad]

I put these lines into ISPConfig box:

ProxyPass / http://server201.web-hosting.co.yu:9673/VirtualHostBase/http/web-hosting.co.yu:80/var/www/web1/www/

ProxyPassReverse /
http://server201.web-hosting.co.yu:9673/VirtualHostBase/http/http/web-hosting.co.yu:80/var/www/web1/www/VirtualHostRoot/

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++

After seting up SiteAcess according to the http://www.zope.org/Members/anser/apache_zserver
I can not acess zope manage at http://www.web-hosting.co.yu:9673/manage/

I permanantly receive 404 - Error! File not found.
Now I don't know whats wrong?

Apache proxy setup, or something with Zope....

And I do not know where is file where SiteAcess wtites data, to reset it.
As recommended as Base I put: http://www.web-hosting.co.yu , and "/" as I want that domain to holds Zope / Plone ...

(Note: I had Plone / Zope working previously through :9673 port)

[wustl_2008]

Okay, in regards to proxy pass in proxy.conf I found this which *should* work for you (I can't access my specific setup now I'll check later if this doesn't work for you):

This will have to work first before you can test your proxypass.


<IfModule mod_proxy.c>

#turning ProxyRequests on and allowing proxying from all may allow
#spammers to use your proxy to send email.

ProxyRequests Off

<Proxy *>
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
#Allow from .your_domain.com
</Proxy>

# allow to connect to localhost with port ending with 9673
<ProxyMatch http://localhost:9673/.*>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</ProxyMatch>

# Enable/disable the handling of HTTP/1.1 "Via:" headers.
# ("Full" adds the server version; "Block" removes all outgoing Via: headers)
# Set to one of: Off | On | Full | Block

ProxyVia On

# To enable the cache as well, edit and uncomment the following lines:
# (no cacheing without CacheRoot)

CacheRoot "/var/cache/apache2/proxy"
# 300MB
CacheSize 307200
# in hours
CacheGcInterval 4
CacheMaxExpire 24
CacheLastModifiedFactor 0.1
CacheDefaultExpire 1
CacheForceCompletion 100
# Again, you probably should change this.
#NoCache a_domain.com another_domain.edu joes.garage_sale.com

</IfModule>

modified from: http://www.cheimes.de/opensource/docs/zope-apache2/zope-apache2-1

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Before we get to your actual proxypass directives you need to make sure zope and plone work properly. Go to your zope/plone site at:

http://web-hosting.co.yu:9673
or
http://server201.web-hosting.co.yu:9673

and you should see the Zope quick start page.

If not you have some debugging on your zope/plone setup before you can move to testing ProxyPass directives.

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In regards to ProxyPass directives you currently have:


ProxyPass / http://server201.web-hosting.co.yu:9673/VirtualHostBase/http/web-hosting.co.yu:80/var/www/web1/www/

ProxyPassReverse / http://server201.web-hosting.co.yu:9673/VirtualHostBase/http/http/web-hosting.co.yu:80/var/www/web1/www/VirtualHostRoot/


You will probably need:

ProxyPass / http://server201.web-hosting.co.yu:9673/VirtualHostBase/http/web-hosting.co.yu:80/VirtualHostRoot/
ProxyPassReverse / http://server201.web-hosting.co.yu:9673/VirtualHostBase/http/http/web-hosting.co.yu:80/VirtualHostRoot/

Usually you don't need the path for ProxyPass. What the one above should do is take whatever you see at the url:
http://server201.web-hosting.co.yu:9673
and make it display on:
http://web-hosting.co.yu

If the above doesn't work you can try this (using localhost instead of servername):

ProxyPass / http://localhost:9673/VirtualHostBase/http/web-hosting.co.yu:80/VirtualHostRoot/
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:9673/VirtualHostBase/http/http/web-hosting.co.yu:80/VirtualHostRoot/

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Please post any results you get on these steps. I promise we'll get you up and running, sometimes it's just a pain in the butt through the initial steps.

[nenad]

Yes, I do have ZopeQuick start at:

http://web-hosting.co.yu:9673/

but I can't acess http://web-hosting.co.yu:9673/manage

After seting up SiteAcess according to the http://www.zope.org/Members/anser/apache_zserver
I can not acess zope manage at http://www.web-hosting.co.yu:9673/manage/

I permanantly receive 404 - Error! File not found.

Some where that script written data, and now I can't acess it.

Falko, please if you are reading this, tell me where are located httpd.conf files for each separate domain ?

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BTW how do you manage to insert http here bypassing Vbuletin tendency to convert it to [URL] ?
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UPDATE:
This will help to anyone if run into problems with acessing running zope/plone site due to missconfiguratio of SiteAcess rule:

SUPPRESS_ACCESSRULE=1
export SUPPRESS_ACCESSRULE

SUPPRESS_SITEROOT=1
export SUPPRESS_SITEROOT
/etc/init.d/zope restart
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phuh, ok, now I am back again, let's chat about proxy :)

[falko]

Falko, please if you are reading this, tell me where are located httpd.conf files for each separate domain ?

The vhosts are all in Vhosts_ispconfig.conf.

[nenad]

This:
ProxyPass / http://localhost:9673/VirtualHostBase/http/web-hosting.co.yu:80/VirtualHostRoot/
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:9673/VirtualHostBase/http/http/web-hosting.co.yu:80/VirtualHostRoot/

caused this:

Bad Gateway
The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
Additionally, a 502 Bad Gateway error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

and after enabling once again SiteAcess with site root http://www.web-hosting.co.yu

this:
Site Error
An error was encountered while publishing this resource.

Resource not found

Sorry, the requested resource does not exist.
Check the URL and try again.

Resource: VirtualHostBase GET



I think that basically both Zope and Plone are working: http://web-hosting.co.yu:9673/Plone%20Demo%20Site

Probably I have to change this:
SiteAcess with site root http://www.web-hosting.co.yu

and make it point somewhere else...?

BTW how to really check whether Proxy is doing it's job or not?

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Actually, this works too (withouth SiteAcess rules), but look at the url which is necessery to acess site:

http://web-hosting.co.yu:9673/web%20hosting%20

[wustl_2008]

What version of zope are you using? Check to make sure you have a VirtualHostMonster in the root of your zope site (assuming you can access your /manage interfaces somehow).

Shaddo-X

[nenad]

I am using debian package for Zope 2.6

Yes, I can acess /manage (I resolved issue with SiteAcess)

For example, to publish Folder "/foo" as http://www.foo.com/, put a Virtual Host Monster in the root folder and rewrite requests for that URL to /VirtualHostBase/http/www.foo.com/foo/VirtualHostRoot/

What if I do not want to use folder /foo but whole domain?

BTW Where are phisically located all of the data for Zope/Plone site?

[nenad]

I put VirtualHostMonster in the root folder of Zope, not into the root folder of my plone site and now at http://www.web-hosting.co.yu/

I have Zope Quick Start

But, I need Plone site, right?

[nenad]

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+ YAY!
+ It works!
+ http://www.web-hosting-solutions.biz
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++


Finally!!

Later I'll post what I done! :)

Beer for everyone, on my bill ;)

[wustl_2008]

Congrats Nenad! Told you we'd get it sooner or later. Sorry if all the different messages were confusing. I think the SiteAccess stuff was messing it up possibly. Looking forward to your step by step. I've always used Zope and Plone from source as the .deb packages are usually out of date.

wustl_2008

[nenad]

@wustl_2008

THANK YOU very much for your support!

[shalom]

wustl_2008 if you get this please update
i cant find any info in google about installing ispconfig with zope except for this page