I don't need no stiken FQDNS

[braddach]

Well it's me again

I live out in the sticks, 30 miles from any town, we have 25 houses here and
no real internet, so I share Hughesnet with 9 houses
and more to come, we have 5 kids “future page developers” so I'm
installing ISPConfig for them to practice on using the lan only so
I don't need FQDNS or any outside DNS at all, so my question is what changes
do I need to make so the system will accept 192.168.1.50/somepage<dot>net
I can get 192.168.1.50:81 from any computer at any house with no problem
same with shared IP at 192.168.1.50 thats fine cuz I will change that page
to give instructions on how to access the pages on the system, so again
how, what and where do I make the necessary changes.

Thanks for any desperately needed help

[HardyHarvey]

I made some changes so that we could test our sites on an internal network. I found that changing the DocumentRoot in /etc/apache2/vhosts/Vhosts_ispconfig.conf from /var/www/sharedip to /var/www enabled me to point to:

http://192.168.1.122/web5/web

and see the sites.

There are also changes to make in the file /root/ispconfig/scripts/lib/config.lib.php
on or about line 1303, where VirtualHost is declared, along with DocumentRoot (remove the trailing /sharedip)

Hope this helps!

[braddach]

SUPER ! and a big THANKS !

I’ll give that a try as soon as I get home and play WORK on it
I thunk it was something like that cuz I was thinen about moving the
page links into the sharedip folder. I’ve installed and reinstalled ETCH
and ISPConfig no less than 10 times until I made a dump backup, I have
a pile of notes about a foot high of the things I’ve tried but didn’t mark
the ones that worked and the ones that failed, soon I hope to add that
Dolphin social network for them also.

Again big THANKS !

[till]

Never cahnge the file /etc/apache2/vhosts/Vhosts_ispconfig.conf manually, ISPConfiug will remove all your changes.

The solution is much easier, just setup domains for every website e.g. site1.tld, site2.tld etc in the ISPConfig dns manager and setup all client computers in your lan to use the dns server on the ispconfig server.

[braddach]

Thanks Till That's the ticket

I've got a fresh install of ISPConfig, created test client and test.net went to mama's XP added in the dns 192.168.1.50 to the top line opened her browser and in the address bar entered test.net and it worked slick as snot
boy I'll tell you, then tested howtoforge.com and here I'am, now to change the shared IP index.html to display instructions of how to access local pages.

[HardyHarvey]

Originally Posted by till

Never cahnge the file /etc/apache2/vhosts/Vhosts_ispconfig.conf manually, ISPConfiug will remove all your changes.

i also made a custom vhosts and posted to it from apache2.conf but had no working DNS at the time so anyways thanks for setting it straight.. BTW editing the config.lib.php was the re-fix for vhosts manual changes to stick permanently.. but i know you know that.

[braddach]

I had double posted “sorry” with my DNS problem, in the first post I mentioned that it worked hit and miss un-reliably and even after I placed the 192.168.1.50 in the XP NIC properties "per Till" the browser still took me to the wrong pages then it dawned on me to clear the page history and volla ! it works first time every time.