I have a dedicated server with cPanel/WHM and on it is a site with for example user name: domain
The main email user name is of course domain I'd also like to forward admin@domainname.com to the domain user account then any other emails would fail. So say if someone sent an email to sales@domainname.com it would fail unless of course I had an account setup.
Currently I can get admin@domainname.com to foward to the main account box, however in doing so it will also forward everything else.
I'm looking to set up a DNS server for parked domains that anyone can use. How do I have the DNS server accept all domain lookups and resolve them to a particular IP address?
For example, if I forward my business domain abcproducts.com to my domain where I have my hosting, myname.com, is it possible for people to see where my business domain is forwarding to. Basically, I am doing a business website, but I don't want anyone to be able to see that it actually is forwarding to a folder on my main myname.com where I have my hosting. I am masking it, so it will only show abcproducts.com, but I am wondering if even the "tech saavy" has tools to figure this out. I just don't want anyone to be able to see this.
Like, I know how sites like DNSreport.com show all kinds of stuff on the domain. Is there something like this that people can use to see if domains forward?
According to the latest trend and technological advances, which server software should people go with from the very beginning. Which do you recommend as on today?
btw anybody has experience with all 3 (apache/nginx/litespeed) webservers?
I have -
On a common shared environment, I started off with Apache - was fine until some load started generating and it became crapache.
Then litespeed - Totally awesome, could seriously feel the difference, but its cost is something not everybody can afford.
Then nginx - Very nice, felt like litespeed only, the only difference was it got quite complex in configuring it at a later stage BUT its free'ness made me love it badly.
As many of you may know mod_cache does not cache directory index files, this can be fixed with mod_rewrite but the index page of the domain (the homepage) seems to be impossible to cache it. The following rules cache the folders but not the homedir (this means that www.thedomain.com/folder is cached but www.thedomain.com is not): DirectorySlash Off RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ([^.*]) RewriteCond "%{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI}/index.htm" -f RewriteRule "^(.*)$" "$1/index.htm" [NC,L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^([^.*])$ RewriteCond "%{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI}/index.html" -f RewriteRule "^(.*)$" "$1/index.html" [NC,L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^([^.*])$ RewriteCond "%{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI}/index.php" -f RewriteRule "^(.*)$" "$1/index.php" [NC,L]
Note that DirectorySlash should be off (or mod_dir not loaded) in order to work also with URL that end with no slash
As I said before this will work for any folder but it does not work for public homedir directory. So when a user visit [url] it does not work (unless you type the name of the index file: [url]
For me it is critical to make this work in someway, the index homepage is the main page that needs to be cached in my case (and in many others).
Do you know any solution for this? I found the first message about this in the Internet in 2002 but I'm using last version of apache httpd and still does not work.
If you have no idea about how to fix it, maybe you know some other easy alternative. Lighttpd + mod_cache + mod_deflate are not compatible: "mod_cache can be used in conjunction with other lighttpd plugins (except mod_deflate and mod_secdownload)"
My customer has an external facing Apache server that is acting as a reverse proxy to two internal applications. They have:
- external addresses for each app which resolve to different ip addresses, so app1.their_domain.com and app2.their_domain.com resolve to 77.3.170.10 and 77.3.170.11 respectively. - the Apache server has two network interfaces with ip addresses 192.168.10.10 and 192.168.10.11 - the external ip addresses resolve to the above internal addresses - the firewall between the Apache server and the internal app servers is configured to allow traffic from 192.168.10.10 to reach app_server1, and traffic from 192.168.10.11 to reach app_server2, both using port 7777.
I have configured a virtual host in httpd.conf for each ip, i.e.
This works fine in that the external address are being routed to the correct application, however the firewall is blocking requests to the second app as it appears the requests are coming from the Apache servers 'primary' ip address 192.168.10.10 instead of 192.168.10.11.
Is it possible to send requests using the ip address from the relevant VirtualHost?
way to get a complete DNS Fail-Over solution for my website.
Currently I'm hosted at one Hosting Facility in NY, and I'm thinking on getting a backup location either in TX or CA but my biggest problem is visitors as even If I will get the secondary location and set the TTL to 10-20min some ISPs are caching the ip address for 24hrs, so even If I will change the IPs from the old range to the new, some ISP's around the world will still cache the old IP and the visitors will get nowhere in case the main location has an issue.
And I was wondering if there’s a way to send people to one direct IP let’s say 1.2.3.4 and from there to load the pages / db or mask there connection under the domain name to a different location without them noticing it so the SSL certificate wont produce error messages.
As I'm sure that Yahoo, CNN and other major websites don’t use one web server for accept connections all over the world to their websites.
what happens when I have 2 DNS servers on my domain and 1 fails? around 50% of the access fails... or they detect DNS timeout and try the other one, so 50% of the access would just take more time?
in a broken state halfway upgraded from centos 4 to centos 5. You'll need to either complete the update to centos 5 or revert to centos 4. Easyapache and some other cPanel functions require that yum be working, but "yum update" on your server currently fails due to the mix of centos 4 and 5 rpm's you have installed
So speakeasy decided to jump on the dedicated server business, and I tried them. My recommendation: Do not sign up for a dedicated server with them - that is unless you want to wait more than a month on your server (took them 35 days) in which they will lie to you and make up excuses for why they take so long. Then once they set up your server, expect it to get piss poor bandwidth and not function properly. The customer service takes 72+ hours to respond 10% of the time. The other 90% they don't respond at all. My sales rep apologized more than 15 times to me in the 35 day period I waited on my server claiming they are "new to the managed services business." This was more than obvious - I basically handed them $600 and got a worthless piece of junk which sat idle for 30 days in return.
I am only writing this post here because I used webhosting talk to research my recent purchase of a dedicated server with liquidweb.
I have been a happy liquidweb VPS customer for the last year and have grown my business with them. Last week I decided to upgrade from a VPS to a dedicated server and that is where things went wrong.
Stefan in sales was nice in taking my order and had my new server setup in very little time. I got an email that everything had been migrated and they would do the cut over Friday morning.
Friday morning I awoke to phone calls from my clients saying they were not getting emails, their site was down, etc.
I do some initial research and find out that liquidweb sold me a new dedicated server with old used dirty ip addressees that were blocked by ATT / sbcglobal / pacbell. To compound this problem a week later and three ip changes all of which were blocked I am still being blocked and on their blacklist. See below for list of other problems.
I was transferred to Bret my account manager who has done nothing for me and hung up on me through web today while pleading with him to get someone to help me.
I can only talk to a support supervisor and no one will let me talk to a real manager. I went on vacation to Boston this week and have been dealing with these issues the entire time.
I feel like I have been pawned off and shuffled around from person to person and can not get my issues resolved.
And to throw salt on the wound they billed $209 for a $159 server and then charged me a seperate $10 for 2 days from last month. Stefan assured me this transfer would be done at the end of the month so there would be no additional charges. Another lie.
Below is the short list of all the issues I have had with liquid web over that last since my migration.
Mysql databases were copied over
Email forwarders were not copied over
Email was being blocked by ATT/SBC/Pacbell
SPF records were not copied over
A records were not copied over
They sold me a new server with old drity blacklisted ip addresses.
After three sets of ip addresses I am still being blocked.
I was billed for both my old VPS and my new server when stefan the sales agent told me it would be a seamless migration and I would be billed for the server starting next month.
Can never talk to the same person twice. Have talked to about 20 people total over the talk week no one will take responsibility to get my issues resolved.
Can anyone recommend a fully managed dedicated server that will handle my migration with care and take responsibility when issues arise.
we are currently planning to implement SAN to our enviroment - VPS hosting.
Al VPS should be placed on the SAN - iSCSI connected to be able live motion etc.
Currently we are fighting with idea of Failover/High avalability. There has been rumors that dual controller SAN from HP/DELL are much more problematic than single controller versions.
We are also thinking about running some opensource like OpenFiler/FreeNAS/OpenSolaris or NexentaStore on supermicro boxes with SATA or single RAID controller.
But in that case - how make the iSCSI target highly available? Mirroring of the data/space is pretty easy with DRBD or ZFS but when one SAN box goes down, there should be no interruption in iSCSI targe service - no IP change etc..
I know I have seen a command line you can use which will activate :fail: in all the accounts on the server simultaneously so that you don't have to do each account separately, but I can't find that command.
Does anyone here know what that command is? I'm assuming it would involve /etc/valiases/?
Code: cd /usr/local/directadmin/customapache/ wget ftp://ftp.proftpd.org/distrib/source....3.1rc2.tar.gz tar xzf proftpd-1.3.1rc2.tar.gz rm -rf proftpd-1.3.1rc2.tar.gz cd proftpd-1.3.1rc2 ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/run --with-modules=mod_ratio:mod_readme:mod_tls make make install perl -pi -e "s/^AuthPAM on/#AuthPAM on/g" /etc/proftpd.conf /etc/rc.d/init.d/proftpd restart I changed the proftpd-1.3.1rc2 version to the newest version of proftpd.org
When I run /etc/init.d/proftpd start, I get the following:
Code: Starting proftpd: - mod_tls/2.1.2: compiled using OpenSSL version 'OpenSSL 0.9.7k 05 Sep 2006' headers, but linked to OpenSSL version 'OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003' library - Fatal: unable to load module 'mod_tls.c': Operation not permitted [FAILED]
I have this server with no control panel and dnsreport could not connect to mailservers on all my domains. But the server can send out emails because I'm receiving logwatch emails, etc. I'm also using dnsmadeeasy for my nameservers.
Quote:
ERROR: I could not complete a connection to any of your mailservers!
mail.mydomain.com: Timed out [Last data sent: [Did not connect]]
If this is a timeout problem, note that the DNS report only waits about 40 seconds for responses, so your mail *may* work fine in this case but you will need to use testing tools specifically designed for such situations to be certain.
I tried adding the domains on /etc/mail/local-host-names and restart sendmail but the error is still there.
i make a dns for reseller client by edit it from edit dns zone and i put the two nameserver and with record type A and i point them to the two nameserver ip
but when someone host with him and use that dns he got in the dnsstuff.com that error
FAIL DNS servers have A records
ERROR. One or more of your DNS servers are missing A records (per NS records that may be cached). As a result, they cannot be used. The problem hostnames are:
well i want to know what's the wrong here?
my server CENTOS Enterprise 5 i686 with apache 1.3.37 with whm 11
Another note : this server not running on main site but run only on the dns (two server one domain name )
let's say I'm part of a LAN and i get my public IP through a PPPoE but i also have a wireless router and another station on which I wish to have linux. On that linux machine I will have anther public IP which is not from the same class.
What to do in order to world wide see my server machine(the one with linux and IP not from the same class)
I want to redirect a website to a particular URL so that the address bar shows the same URL and not the destination URL. I know it is possible via URL masking, however, I want it in such a way that whenever somebody clicks on any link in the website, the address bar should still show the original URL. To put it in simple words, Suppose I want to redirect [url] to [url]. Now if there is a link named contact/index.htm and somebody clicks on it the address bar should display [url]and not redirect to [url]
How can it be possible using URL Rewrite method in .htaccess file?
- I can't access the webserver - I'll try to restart httpd, and I'll get
Starting httpd: (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:443
To fix this, I run
[root@www1 ~]# lsof -i tcp:443 COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME perl 11307 apache 4u IPv6 476943447 TCP *:https (LISTEN)
There is always leftover process that is causing the restart to fail. Once i force kill the process, I am able to restart httpd properly.
Now it is ok if this just occurs once in a while, but this problem keeps repeating itself almost everyday at 4am server time (cron time?). What can I do to permanently fix this?
am having 1.8 load average on a new dedicated Core2Quad q8200 2.33GHz server with only 4 accounts on it i think that's weird, the most busy process using more than 98% of the cpu is:
my datacenter says that they have not had power failures(lol yeh right) but i cant seem to figure out why my server seems to be rebooting randomly. so far its happened early 3-5am my times today and yesterday, just its happened 4x more times this morning.
im not sure if cpanel is sending me bind start failures because its not set to auto start up on reboot or if it might be related... but the server seems fine.
