Boyle Owen wrote:
-----Original Message-----From: RYAN vAN GINNEKEN [mailto:luck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Mittwoch, 8. März 2006 05:23To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [users@httpd] CNAME and A records not working? Been rackin my brain on this oneFirst: Forget apache. You have to get DNS working properly before tackling the apache config. I presume all hostnames have to resolve to the same IP? So, work on the DNS config until this is so (test DNS using "nslookup" - not by typing the hostnames into a browser).
I think it is simple and has to be a redirect here is some of my teststhis is so! blazebartending.com is their main site www.blazebartending.com is a sitealias atest is an A record and ctest.blazebartending.com is a CNMAE that points to www.canmail.org but when i type ctest into my browser it takes me to the content that is setup in the apache vhost container. I guess this what i wanted NOT!!!!! but does make sense i think. at first i had no content infact no container so browser took me the first virtual host is my httpd.conf file. F*&k why did it used to work now it mostly makes sense that is dosent i gotta go to be it is after 4am here.
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>nslookup blazebartending.com Server: computerking.ca Address: 192.168.0.202 Name: blazebartending.com Address: 68.144.188.169 C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>nslookup www.blazebartending.com Server: computerking.ca Address: 192.168.0.202 Name: blazebartending.com Address: 68.144.188.169 Aliases: www.blazebartending.com C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>nslookup mail.blazebartending.com Server: computerking.ca Address: 192.168.0.202 Name: mail.blazebartending.com Address: 68.144.188.169 C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>nslookup atest.blazebartending.com Server: computerking.ca Address: 192.168.0.202 Name: atest.blazebartending.com Address: 68.144.188.169 C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>nslookup ctest.blazebartending.com Server: computerking.ca Address: 192.168.0.202 Name: www.canmail.org Address: 68.144.188.169 Aliases: ctest.blazebartending.com
and when u do an nslookp u get the cname bit and i thought apache picked up on thatOnce you have DNS working reliably using nslookup, try the hostnames in a browser. If you still have problems, check your ServerName and ServerAlias directives in each VH. Post back if you need further help. BTW, it would help if you posted real domain names - since this could be a DNS issue, it would be better if we could check it ourselves.
Strangeness abounds i solved the problem by adding an additional vhost to every site similar to below now everything works but it is weird. I do not quite understand cause i used to us cnames like further below and they worked fine on my freesbd box. Now that i am forced into using this fredora 3 machine not sure if the problem is related to os or not. Anyway to make things work i changed to an A record but then the www.canmail.org cannot be used and i have to use a raw ip so apache cannot guess that i want www.canmail.org right? Therefore i added the vhost with redirect and now things work. Puzzling me still is this the rest of my vhost work fine ie www.site, old.site and new.site just not when they are pointed to www.canmail.org. Hell even mail.computerking.ca CNAME shoematers.com works well not anymore cause i redirected it to www.canmail.org too. But it is a cname and it still works. but mail.blazebartending.com INCNAME www.canmail.org doesnt work until redirected. arrrgh i have been messing with this for 2 days and i like the cname solution better i make dns changes not sure if i have to wait
i cloud go one and one so many angles to the dangle help it works but am still not happy
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ServerName mail.blazebartending.com
ErrorLog logs/blazebartending.com-error_log
CustomLog logs/blazebartending.com-access_log common
Redirect permanent / http://www.canmail.org/
</VirtualHost>
mail.computerking.ca. IN CNAME shoemasters.com.
Rgds, Owen BoyleDisclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored.I have a vhost in apache called host1.com it have a serveralias of www.host1.com. I used to use a DNS CNAME for the www.host1.com and then create another virtual host for that too. So i had 2 virtual host containers for almost every site seems a bit cleaner and more sensible to just omit the CNAME in DNS and add a serveralias in apache. This save me the bother of maintaining another entire virtual host container for each site. Is one more correct than the other they both seem to work ok but it is kinda confusing. Note host1.com and www.host1.com point to the same server and the same content all work well. Anyway here is my problem There is also another record in my DNS named mail.host1.com it points to a different vhost named www.mail.portal.org also on the same server. I am using www.mail.portal.org as a email portal for several sites so i added CNAMES to the DNS for these sites like somail.host1.com IN CNAME www.mail.portal.com this does not seem to work so i tried an A record mail.host1.com IN A 123.123.123.123this does not seem to work either apache seems to pick up the connection but it takes me to the first virtual host listed in the httpd.conf file host.com. I need apache to accept the connection and redirect me www.mail.portal.com. Why doenst this work i have a similar setup on a different server and i works fine with CNAMES could it be the serveralias thingy as i do not use it on the other server the one that works.---------------------------------------------------------------------The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project.See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxDiese E-mail ist eine private und persönliche Kommunikation. Sie hat keinen Bezug zur Börsen- bzw. Geschäftstätigkeit der SWX Gruppe. This e-mail is of a private and personal nature. It is not related to the exchange or business activities of the SWX Group. Le présent e-mail est un message privé et personnel, sans rapport avec l'activité boursière du Groupe SWX. This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please notify the sender urgently and then immediately delete the message and any copies of it from your system. Please also immediately destroy any hardcopies of the message. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. The sender's company reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through their networks. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the message states otherwise and the sender is authorised to state them to be the views of the sender's company. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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