IP and DNS questions for ispconfig

[cpcpy]

[QUOTE=till]Directory listings are disabled in ISPCOnfig by default, have you abled them manually in your apache configuration.

[QUOTE]

no i didn't change the default - it currently looks like this:

<directory /var/www/*/web>
    Options +Includes -Indexes
    AllowOverride None
    AllowOverride Indexes AuthConfig Limit FileInfo
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    <files ~ "^\.ht">
    Deny from all
    </files>
</directory>

i've yet to sorted out my DNS hosting for the "main" FQDM
so i couldn't create any new domain...

i created a folder "temp" and 2 files inside
/var/www/web1/web/temp/a.html
/var/www/web1/web/temp/b.html

when i browse http://my-ip-address/temp
i see the directory listing...

[falko]

Do you have an .htaccess file in /var/www/web1/web or /var/www/web1/web/temp?

[cpcpy]

Originally Posted by falko

Do you have an .htaccess file in /var/www/web1/web or /var/www/web1/web/temp?

sorry i gave the wrong path...

my temp files are actually in:

/var/www/html/temp/a.html
/var/www/html/temp/b.html

(maybe i'm not suppose to put anything under /var/www/html in the first place?)

in any case, no, there is no .htaccess file in /var/www/ or /var/www/*

[till]

The folder /var/www/html is not configured and not supported by ISPCOnfig. You wull have to create a website in ISPCOnfig and put your files in the website folder that ISPCOnfig creates for the website.

[cpcpy]

ok thanks...

i have www.example.com pointed correctly to my ispconfig box (DNS hosted by my isp) i can access my control panel using https://www.example.com:81

can i create sub1.example.com using ispconfig? can i expect that website (http://sub1.example.com) and email (user1@sub1.example.com) to work?


thanks

[falko]

Originally Posted by cpcpy

can i create sub1.example.com using ispconfig? can i expect that website (http://sub1.example.com) and email (user1@sub1.example.com) to work?


thanks

Sure. Create sub1.example.com in DNS and make sure it points to your ISPConfig box before.

[cpcpy]

Originally Posted by falko

Sure. Create sub1.example.com in DNS and make sure it points to your ISPConfig box before.

i created a "site" hostname=sub1 and domain=example.com i tick the "DNS" and "DNS-MX" boxes...
i've also created a user in this site (sub1.example.com)

when i go to the DNS section, i see that there is an existing
=========================================
domain (SOA) = example.com
IP = mypublicIP
nameserver1 = example.com
nameserver2 = example.com

under "records":
A record - IPAddr=myPublicIP, hostname=sub1
MX record - mailserver=example.com, hostname=sub1
=========================================

i'm not sure this SOA record is correctly created by myself earlier, or created by ispconfig after i add the new site sub1

but problem now is that i can't ping sub1.example.com

is it due to my TTL?

or is it to do with the my ISP who is hosting example.com

(or do i need to restart some process)

thanks!!

[cpcpy]

Originally Posted by till

There are several possibilitys:

1) Point both nameserver entries to your server IP. But if your server fails, the domain will not be reachable anymore in DNS. On the other hand, if Mail and Webserver are on the same server anyway, it does not make a big difference if DNS fails too

i have registered a new domain example2.com with godaddy.com

i want to host this new domain on my ispconfig server (example.com)
however, when i try to point the DNS of example2.com to example.com, godaddy gives an error, "Unavailable error in field Host name1"

why does godaddy reject example.com as my DNS server?
(they don't accept IP address - saying "Nameserver 1 has an invalid TLD")

must i have a NS record for example.com?

[falko]

Originally Posted by cpcpy

i created a "site" hostname=sub1 and domain=example.com i tick the "DNS" and "DNS-MX" boxes...
i've also created a user in this site (sub1.example.com)

when i go to the DNS section, i see that there is an existing
=========================================
domain (SOA) = example.com
IP = mypublicIP
nameserver1 = example.com
nameserver2 = example.com

under "records":
A record - IPAddr=myPublicIP, hostname=sub1
MX record - mailserver=example.com, hostname=sub1
=========================================

i'm not sure this SOA record is correctly created by myself earlier, or created by ispconfig after i add the new site sub1

Is your ISPConfig server the authoritative name server for example.com?

must i have a NS record for example.com?

Every domain must have an NS record.

[cpcpy]

Originally Posted by falko

Is your ISPConfig server the authoritative name server for example.com?

Every domain must have an NS record.

looks like the authoritative name server for my example.com is my ISP's DNS...

i did a:
dig sub1.example.com @example.com
and i see that sub1.example.com resolves to the correct IP...

so what must i do to get things right?

(i need to be able to use sub1.example.com)