Couple of questions

[valter]

Now I have installed ISPConfig on SuSE 10.3 x86, but still waiting for some answers regarding x64 system. Anyway, I would like to know the following:

1. Sites created in ISPConfig are created in /srv/www folder. How can I find out on what partition /srv is located? Because, I've made a /home partition really large and thought that ISPConfig will create sites on that partition. If /srv/ is actually located @ '/', is there any way to configure ISPConfig to create sites on /home?

2. Name Servers is ISPConfig are automatically pre-cofigured with the hostname and domain name of the ISPConfig box. So if my box is server1.domain.tld, name servers for all sites created in ISPConfig will be server1.domain.tld. Is there any way to pre-configure NS value to ns1.domain.tld and ns2.domain.tld?

3. I have a newly created TLD for the ISPConfig box, i.e. domain.tld. Now, how can I administer this domain on the ISPConfig box? What I mean is that, how can I bind this domain to the ISPConfig box without leaving NS servers for this domain @ my Internet domain register?

4. Since ISPConfig box is behind router and NAT, do I have to add my public (global) IP address to the address list, or the local IP is just enough? I ask this because, if the local one is fine, then I have to manually change IP address for the DNS records for evey site I create.

5. MX record for every site is MX 10 server1.domain.tld. Is tehre anyway to pre-configure this to mail.domain.tld and automatically create mail host DNS record with the respected IP address?

6. What ISPConfig backup funkction actually backs-up? Only ISPConfig configuration or just everything in ISPConfig (i.e. websites, configuration, mails...)?

7. Since during apache configuration (SuSE 10.3 perfect setup guide) DirectoryIndex line includes also .aspx, is it possible to run ASP.NET webpages on this machine? If so, is there any configuration in ISPConfig for this, like ASP.NET 1, ASP.NET 2...?

[Hans]

1) If you want ISPConfig to create sites within /home, you have to change this setting within ISPConfig under Management > Server > Settings > Web.
Change /srv/www within /home

2) For every site, you create with ISPConfig, you are free to define the hostname and domainname.
You can do this on the basis tab of a site. The default hostname should be "www" not "server1".
You can change it within "www" within ISPConfig under Management > Server > Settings > Server.

3) You can do this with the DNS-Manager within ISPConfig.
Remember that you must have 2 DNS-servers at least to registar domains.

4) In the IP-list within ISPConfig, only use your internal IP-address, not your public one.

5) You can do this on the basis tab of the site you are creating.

6) The backup function within ISPConfig (if enabled) creates only backups of the webspaces, but not the MySQL databases. It does not create backups of configuration files, passwords, systemusers and so on. To backup your whole server, there are other methods.

7) On a default ISPConfig server it is not possible to manage MicroSoft .net based and/or .asp.net and .aspx websites. I have heard that it should be possible on a Linux system, but i don't have experience with that.

[valter]

Well here's what I've done:

1. Registered brand new domain domain.tld
2. Updated name serversto point to the ISPCOnfig box
3. Created new site and DNS records (corrected local to global IP addresses)
4. Created mail user

and here's what I end up with:

1. www.domain.tld (cannot open website, servr not found)
2. www.domain.tld doesn't reply to ping (ping: cannot resolve www.domain.tld: Unknown host)
3. I can send mail using mail user@domain.tld, but when I reply to that message, the message is neither received nor returned to the sender's mailbox as undeliverable.
4. Here is output of the nslookup:

localhost:~ admin$ nslookup
> domain.tld
;; Got SERVFAIL reply from 192.168.1.37, trying next server
;; Got SERVFAIL reply from 192.168.1.38, trying next server
;; Got recursion not available from 192.168.1.38, trying next server
Server:		192.168.1.39
Address:	192.168.1.39#53

** server can't find domain.tld: NXDOMAIN
>

5. While booting, there is the following message:
Starting rquota daemon rpc.rquotad: Warning: Cannot open export table /var/lib/nfs/etab No such file or directory Using '/' as pseudofilesystem root

Any idea what could be wrong?

[falko]

Can you post the real domain name so that I can run a check?

[valter]

I've sent you a pm

[falko]

There are no records for the domain. The authoritative nameservers for the domain are ns1 - ns4.itpro-host.com, so please create the records there.

[valter]

ns1 and ns2 are the ISPConfig box, and that's what confuses me as well that that box does not reply with an answer

[falko]

Then you must tell your domain registrar that you want to use your ISPConfig system as the authoritative nameserver instead of ns1 - ns4.itpro-host.com.

Is BIND running?

[valter]

Originally Posted by falko

Then you must tell your domain registrar that you want to use your ISPConfig system as the authoritative nameserver instead of ns1 - ns4.itpro-host.com.

Is BIND running?

ns1.itpro-host.com and ns2.itpro-host.com are pointing to ISPConfig box and are registered as name servers for that domain. Yes, BIND is running. Now I can't even get to my ISPConfig box via web address, since I have created that domain in ISPConfig...

[till]

Please ask your registrar to add glue records for your domain:

http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12924