Hello

I am running Cent OS and currently have 2 different domains setup correctly on 1 server(I set these up via cPanel years ago)

I wish to add a third but do not have a cPanel license, ideally I do not want to purchase one just to add another domain.

I located my httpd.conf file

/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

I found two Virtual host blocks which apply to my other two working domains, so I copied one and edited it according to my new domain.




I created a user sm and also a new directory /sm/public_html inside /home

I have applied the same nameservers as on my other domains, but when visiting my domain in firefox I get a generic "server not found" message.

I have checked permssions and group ownership are the same as the other domains.

drwxr-x--- 9 sm nobody 4096 (new non working domain user)
drwxr-x--- 15 d nobody 4096 (old working domain user 1)
drwxr-x--- 14 s nobody 4096 (old working domain user 2)


- I have waited 80+ hours for DNS settings to propagate
- I have restarted the server with service httpd restart
- Checked user sm exists within /etc/passwd - which it does along with my other 2 users for the other 2 domains.

When running httpd -S I get the following

Additionally in windows running nslookup (www)domain(org) returns

Hello Volkswag (Foxtrot),
I thought we might be able to do more commenting over here. The NameVirtualHost configuration seems to be in order. The fact that the log files are empty & the message in the browser would indicate that the browser is not connecting with the server at all. Your DNS is not resolving. The namevhost will only answer if the browser connects with the configured name. So the web server is waiting for a http get request for the server www.domain.org. You can test the web server configuration simply by adding

11.11.11.11 www.domain.org

to your hosts file under c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc on Win7 (Mind you this hasn't changed since XP) on the browser box. After that reboot & try to connect per FireFox with http://www.domain.org

That way you can make sure that the web server is doing what it is supposed to do. (Check & see if it created any logs.) Maybe you could also post "ip a l" from the cent os box.

Hi

I added what you said to my hosts file, I now receive the following message when going to my domain.org


Does this mean its definatly a DNS error? And is this with my domain host or my web host?
Domain is hosted a name.com, server at worldstream.nl

Hi. What you have done by editing the hosts file is simply preempted the DNS lookup. Windows (or Linux) looks into the hosts file before making a DNS lookup. If it finds the address it's looking for, it uses this address & doesn't bother with DNS. The internal error means that the browser is now connecting with the server. You should find that the log files are no longer empty. What does this mean for you. Firstly, you need to look at the DNS configuration. It's not working. As soon as you remove the entry from the hosts file, the browser will not connect anymore. If I can help you with that, let me know. If you have support on the DNS, use it. Secondly, the web server configuration is not working. But now you have log files & we can try to sort that out. It's not the end of the world. If you need to sent me files that you don't wish to post, let me know & we can exchange mail addresses.

Ok I understand now.

The main log shows - nano /usr/local/apache/domlogs/domain.org

Then lets start by sorting out the DNS. Here's a mail address eamtrav(at)web.de. You can send me a description if the DNS environment. Use "httpd Virtual host - server offline for 4 days" as the subject of the mail & I will get it. I need to know what kind of DNS you are using, what kind access you have to the DNS & how you are configuring it. After that we can deal with the web server.