I have a virtual dedicated server (Red Hat) at GoDaddy and I'm trying to set up wildcard DNS. In short, I want:
anything.mydomain.com/thepage.html
to resolve to:
mydomain.com/thepage.html
I've taken the following steps: ......
I am not that much of a dns/server expert, and I really need help setting up wildcard dns for domain names.
I have 1 parent domain zone file. Let's name this domain "parentdomain.com". Now this domain is set up with private nameservers of ns1.parentdomain.com and ns2.parentdomain.com and everything works fine.
What I want to do is now have the ability to put ns1.parentdomain.com and ns2.parentdomain.com into any other domain on the web and make it forward to this Parentdomain.com web root.
How do I do this WITHOUT adding a zone file for each of these individual child domains?
The thing is that I have a project where I don't know which domains will have nameservers set to ns1/ns2.parentdomain.com, but I want them all to forward to the appropriate directory.
if our host is experiencing technical problems, or if they're in financial collapse.
Since 5 PM Sat., many sites hosted by powerfulhosting.com of Santa Monica have gone dead, mostly on NS01.POWERFULHOSTING.COM and some on NS1.IOCUS.COM They include:
chandarawestla.com
peggypotter.com
countrysidepet.com
robertpaulgalleries.com
cameraleather.com
goeastern.com
roastyourown.com
and many more. Over the weekend, tech help claimed the problems were assocaited with an "upgrade" to a new server. As the site owners started talking to each other, and the outage grew into the work week, Powerful Hosting stopped responding to inquiries, even from longtime clients. Their phone mailboxes are full and silent.
Now, I'm not an administrator or even a very quick FTPer, but these stores have burned to the ground and there are are livelihoods on the line. Can anyone in this community find any evidence suggesting a geniune technical glitch on their servers? A couple of people in our group think maybe they can't pay a server bill, in which case we all need to bail out immediately.
So I finally decided to upgrade apache from 1.3 to 2.2 and thought I'd upgrade php while I'm doing it. Everything isntalls ok and the php installer says it has configured apache etc but I just can't get it to parse php. It just loads a blank page!
I've tried adding handlers, types everything etc
The php 5.2.1 (latest)
I have a client trying to log in via ftp. They cannot log in and get this error.
[14:36:05] Resolving host name "www.domain.com"
[14:36:05] Connecting to "IP ex 1.1.1.1" Port: 21
[14:36:06] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.
[14:36:06] Cannot login waiting to retry (30s)...
[14:36:06] Client closed the connection.
I restarted FTP and checked to see if apf was blocking them and neither worked. She is using smartftp and I also had her try filezilla and neither worked.
However I am able to log in fine from my pc using this login info.
Having some trouble using grep and hoped someone might be able to help.
Running the following command to try and scan for an IP address match across a period of time in our access_logs:
grep '04/Feb/2007:21:*:*' /var/www/vhosts/*/statistics/logs/access_log.processed | grep
'216.2*.*.*'
This is returning all kinds of IP address results such as: 58.216.50.2 Can you suggest how I can tweak the grep command to search for the right IP addresses?
I want to scan precisely for IP addresses starting 216.2*.
We've been given the following information about spam, and want to track the source of it
down:
216.2x.x.x - email spam
So any ideas how I can scan these logfiles more precisely for the IP address I need?
I was wondering, if installing ffmpeg-php is worth the trouble for shared hosting accounts or if it is too much of a resource hog. I had a couple of requests for that but I am not used to this extension.
Thank you for giving me your feedbacks on this.
We are in the process of changing web hosting companies and I am having difficulty in moving all the directories. We are a membership based company with over 8,900 members. The original web site (called Site a) has over 26,700 individual directories along with many tutorials in video format. The entire site is approximately 80 GB in size.
When I had the second web hosting company try to move the site via tar they indicated that the tar would abort at about 4 GB every time.
Is there any other way to move this site or get a complete backup of the site. I have no problem moving the MySQL databases.
I managed to install xcache on my Centos 4.5 server.
Xcache is shown in my phpinfo, but I think there's problem since php -v gives me following error, I don't have a clue how to fix this. See attached images.
I tried several different configurations in xcache.ini, but all with this same result.
It seems that this error doens't occur always.
PHP Warning: Module 'XCache' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
/dev/zero: No space left on device
Failed creating file mappping
PHP Fatal error: Failed creating file mappping in Unknown on line 0
PHP Fatal error: XCache: Cannot create shm in Unknown on line 0
PHP 5.2.9 (cli) (built: Mar 10 2009 16:30:52)
Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2009 Zend Technologies
with XCache v1.2.2, Copyright (c) 2005-2007, by mOo
Segmentation fault
my site has received surge in traffic. basically doubled everday for a week.
although this is great. it appears its seriously loading the site slow and timing out now.
what to do ? i doubt submitting ticket will help.
i guess you get what you pay for ?
i think so far, cirtexhosting is not too shabby considering its price. 14 bucks for 1TB bandwith.
I am having trouble setting up webdav on IIS6. I wasted all day on this today.
So far I have set it up to work over the internet with anonymous access.
Now I want to turn on:
1) basic authentication
2) SSL
I try to turn on (1) but:
- when try to access over the internet, it prompts for my login but it doesn't accept the login and keeps reprompting me.
- when I try to access from the local server, it seems to accept the login but gives an error 'the folder you entered does not appear to be valid, please choose another'
I have created a new user who has permission to access both the directory on the server and the virtual directory in IIS. I have turned on the webdav extension. I have tried reinstalling IIS too.
I'm trying another cpanel hosting service in addition to one with which I have a main domain and a bunch of addons. I'm used to being able to create the addon accounts regardless of whether I've already changed the ns for the domains being added yet. In the new service I'm trying, I am unable to to do that, but instead get an error message which appears online in various forum posts:
Quote:
Error from park wrapper: Using nameservers with the following IPs: exampleIP 1,example IP 2 Sorry, the domain is already pointed to an IP address that does not appear to use DNS servers associated with this server. Please transfer the domain to this servers nameservers or have your administrator add one of its nameservers to /etc/ips.remotedns and make the proper A entries on that remote nameserver.
With the hosting service where I can always create the accounts any time, I use a secure login that contains my account ip: [url] I will only do secure logins, and not any unsecure http logins. The other hosting service where I am unable to create the addons does not appear to have that available for my normal account url or ip, at least it doesn't work when I've tried, but after searching I found out that you can get a secure login in another way, so I am able to securely log into my account using [url] but this is not the same as my account's IP or the normal shorter url for my regular unsecure login. I would guess that's the significant difference which allows me to create accounts any time in the first account vs. not at all in the second - that I'm using my account's normal ip for the one, but the longer-than-normal secure urls for the other (?), although I don't fully know how that would work.
There is however, one significant difference in the second account which I do not have in the first, and that is that I have SSH access in the second account. So, I am wondering if there is a simple method for using that SSH access to change a setting in my second account in such a way that I can have the same freedom to create addons there first and then attend to ns changes and so forth later when I'm ready? Especially is there a way to do this only once for the whole account, instead of having to do it for each and every addon? Thanks in advance to those who might really know the score on all this stuff and exactly what the best solution or solutions are.
i am tring to setup my own nameservers for the past two days but couldn't get them to work.
i hve already created the ns at godaddy.com. and created dns zone file with corress ponding ips in my vps
iam getting the following error on the dns report. can anyone help me fix them......thanks aloot
Errror 1:
FAIL: Lame nameservers
ERROR: You have one or more lame nameservers. These are nameservers that do NOT answer authoritatively for your domain. This is bad; for example, these nameservers may never get updated. The following nameservers are lame:
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx < -- my ips
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Errror 2:
FAIL : Missing nameservers 2
ERROR: One or more of the nameservers listed at the parent servers are not listed as NS records at your nameservers. The problem NS records are:
ns3.mydomain.com.
ns4.mydomain.com.
ns5.mydomain.com.
ns6.mydomain.com.
Error 3:
FAIL : Single Point of Failure
ERROR: Although you have at least 2 NS records, they both point to the same server, resulting in a single point of failure. You are required to have at least 2 nameservers per section 2.2.
Error 4:
FAIL SOA Record
No valid SOA record came back:
is not mydomain.com.
I'm trying to setup the Clozure Common Lisp implementation for CGI web programming. I've made a hello application and compiled it.
I can type ./index.cgi at the terminal and the properly formatted header and some text are displayed.
When I try to view the index page though the web browser I get an internal server error.
Quote:
Couldn't load lisp heap image from
[Sun May 10 09:31:25 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Premature end of script headers: index.cgi
I'm wondering if this is a Lisp problem or a problem with the web server/permissions.
I wrote a hello world CGI app in C and ran that through the browser without any problems.
I applied the same permissions from the C app to the Lisp app and still had the same problem.
I *think* this is a Lisp problem, but just felt that I should check with some people who are more familiar with server setups than myself.
I have a java applet that displays (local)images. I also have anti leach code in .htaccess that is adde via cpanel:
.htaccess contents:
Code:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://owndomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://owndomain.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.owndomain/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.owndomain.com$
RewriteRule .*.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp)$ - [F,NC]
Symptems:
1- Java Applet loads && runs ok but doesn't display images.
2- When .htaccess file is removed, images display ok.
I am starting to notice a range of IPs I'd rather not have access to any portion of my server's existence.
Can I add them to: /etc/apf/deny_hosts.rules
in this fashion:
12.34.567.
(This would effectively ban anyone whose IP began with these digits, regardless of what the last bracket's # is)
Possible?
I'd test, but my IP does not reset so frequently and I don't want to lock myself out of the server if it ends up working.
I run a free hosting service where users can sign up for a free blog.
With wildcard DNS and A entry, the users that sign up for a blog get the addy: theirblog.mydomain.com
This all works but there is no scalability. I have reached the limit of what my server can take.
If possible I would like to run multiple servers with just one domain.
So that when server 1 reaches its limit, it is possible to sign up new users that gets theirblog.mydomain.com (same domain) but now its physically stored on server 2.
Is this possible if you use wildcard DNS for the users subdomain sites?
I am quite new at this. I know there are ways to manage one domain on several servers, but is this possible too with this setup using wildcard dns and subdomains?
I bulk register .com names for future use, and out of all the ones I use, only about 30 have actual sites, whilst I have about 200 that are just not doing anything.
I have seen places like godaddy who whatever website people visit just gets fowarded to a landing page, and I have set it up so the nameservers all foward to my dns servers (I manage my own infrastructure).
I have seen through IIS it is possible to have a "catch all" website where any traffic goes there, however, how do I set this up in DNS?
I tried creating a zone called .com but that didnt work! and I really dont know what I should do!
Quote:
tar -zcvf sqldata.$date.tgz *.sql
As it seems the server is taking that * as a character, not as a wildcard.
What would be the proper character for a wildcard symbol?
Does anyone know.. if you have a wildcard ssl cert for *.domain.com meaning you can use anything.domain.com can you also use anything.anything.domain.com (ie. unlimited subdomain levels) ?.
View 1 Replies View RelatedSo setting up wildcard DNS was easy enough, but I am trying to actually have wildcard *.*.mydomain.com
Is there any way to accomplish that, not having to add an entry for each *.actualsubdomain.mydomain.com ?
I have a server: serverA.maindomain.com
and another serverB.maindomain.com
The DNS records for maindomain.com are on serverA
so the serverB A record is on serverA which is fine (i am aware it's a risk if serverA goes down).
If I'm setting a sub domain of serverB such as site1.serverB.maindomain.com I have to setup an A record on serverA for the subdomain and I don't want to have to do this every time.
Is there anyway I can setup a wildcard A record for subdomains such as:
*.serverB.maindomain.com
Now that I have relieved a lot of frustration I can talk about my issue. We have a cpanel server and are trying to install a wildcard ssl certificate on it. As you could tell from above its not working out so well.
The cert was ordered an installed as *.domain.com . It works great on https://domain.com and [url]
However, when I do [url]its an epic fail. Its a seperate cpanel account even with its own dedicated IP address. I look in the httpd.conf file and see the :80 entry however, I need to add a :443 entry in a way that cpanel/whm will not change it next time i add an account.
When I try to install the SSL certificate in WHM on jeff.domain.com it tells me the domain does not match. So I am asking how do I get this to work? I have searched for quite a while on the net and have not come across anything that works.
Googlebot is eating up about 30GB bandwidth per month.
I want to prevent him (and other robots) from spidering:
[url]
and all derivatives thereof (e.g. [url])
Is this possible with robots.txt? How would the code look?
Will this work?
User-agent: *
Disallow: /directory1/page1.php
or do I need to somehow specify a wildcard, e.g.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /directory1/page1.php?*
I have [virtually] unlimited number of subdomains on my site, and I need SSL support on them. So, I think wildcard SSL certificate will do the job.
Can you recommend an affordable wildcard SSL cert provider supported by all the major browsers (IE/Firefox/Opera/Safari)?
one of my customers asked me if i can enable the WildCard DNS for him on Apache.
i just want to know is it any security issue with this if i enable it? can it be a security problem for my server if i enable it?
if not, how can i enable it?
got the VirtualHost entries for Appache, so each Domain points to a folder.
The (Windows-)DNS runs on the server, means i have to create a new DNS Reverse-Lookup and Folder for each Domain seperatly, but this workflow appears to be pretty stupid..
Now my question:
Anyone can tell me how to setup somwhat a "Wildcard / Catchall DNS", and also "Catchall VirtualHost", so each Domain is automatically pointed to the right folder? Any scripts needed for that?
I'm working on the idea of an email wrapping/branding service.
I'd like someone to be able to send an email to the service structuring the email address like this:[url]
The part in italics is the real destination and the part in bold is the address of my server.
I'll then parse the real destination out of the email, wrap it in some stuff and send it on.
From what I've read I need to set up a wildcard MX record. I've tried that but the emails just don't seem to get there.
I'd value your thoughts on how to deal with this problem and what questions I should be asking.
"Do you support wild card sub-domains?"
a web host has sent me the following:
"Wild card sub-domains will not work with our standard shared hosting accounts. although the DNS configuration is available to have any sub domain not listed direct to an IP address the actually hosting account will not recognize a wild card DNS entry unless you have manually added the specific name of the sub domain."
The only part I understood was the first line. Maybe it is my lack of hosting related knowledge or maybe because English is not my native language, the second sentence is very confusing to me.
What is tech rep trying to say?
I am setting wildcard nameservers that are meant to resolve any dpim pointed to them. I need for my domain parking service.
I was able to set wildcard A records with BIND, and this is good. However, some registrars seem to look for the SOA records, and it seems that BIND doesn't allow creating such records. Therefore, I need to switch to another DNS software, but I can;t find any that supports wildcard SOA records.
I want to use wildcard subdomain
This is what I should do for my job
now how can I do it?
I use LXADMIN and lighttpd
lighttpd support .httaccess? how can I enable it?