mcleodnine,
Thanks so much for all your help on getting this resolved! For others newbies that will read this set thread the summary of the fix is:
1) I was trying many different things within the httpd.conf file, within YaST and WebMin.
Lesson learned: stick with one medium. In my case I choose to strictly edit the httpd.conf file (other relevant .conf files) and use the
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/usr/sbin/rcapache2 configtest
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/usr/sbin/rcapache2 stop
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/usr/sbin/rcapache2 start
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/usr/sbin/rcapache2 status
commands to ensure that apache was running correctly. The template .conf files are well documented so it is hard to really screw up.
2) As a result of number 1 above I believe that I did cause problems with apache, so I uninstalled and reinstalled apache2 using YasT and then I reconfigured a new liviam.conf file and located it in /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/ file (apache2 by default specifies to read all files in the vhosts.d folder).
3) Ensure that you don't have any caching issues before you start to reconfig everything, as you set-up may be just fine but your cached files may not be representative of your current set-up. Check Caching in these locations:
- use ipconfig /flushdns to clear the dns from your network card cache
- Clear your cache in Internet Explorer and Mozilla
- *** ensure that proxy caches of any kind whether on a firewall or a proxy server are cleared. One note that on IPFrog firewall you also need to deselect the Transparent on Green option
4) ***** Ensure that you wait for appropriate propagation time. I know that for the most case dns propagates within North America within 24 hours; however in my case it actually took 72! I was driving myself batty as to why things were showing up some places and not others in my local area, but it came down to the fact that I had been too impatient with propagation.
If you run into a situation where your domain and website are properly appearing for some of you friends or business colleague's but not others give it a couple of days before you start changing things. This also means allow for enough time for the rare case of slower propagation.
Again mcleodnine thanks for all you help and continued success for you and your Linux user group.
Truly,
ServerStorm