[plug] Hosting help

[Paul Dean]

Hya,

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Joong Cho wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to host my own two sites and the following are the files that I 
> have configured.
> 
> Under /etc/hosts:
> 
> 127.0.0.1    localhost.localdomain    localhost    joongcho
> 
> 202.72.186.114    dns.joongcho.com
> 202.72.186.114    www.joongcho.com
> 202.72.186.114    www.startreklibrary.com
This file is ok if you want a faster IP resolution than from DNS or you
are not running a local DNS on your machine or network.
> 
> Under /etc/resolv.conf I have the following:
> 
> search
> nameserver 192.168.1.1
> dns.joongcho.com 202.72.186.114
> www.joongcho.com 202.72.186.114

Change this to:
search joongcho.com
nameserver 192.168.1.1

This is saying you have a DNS running in your LAN, is this true?
If not you will need to change the above IP to the correct DNS address.

> 
> The IP Address of 202.72.186.114 will be my hosting address and the 
> nameserver will be dns.joongcho.com. I have changed my domain name details 
> accordingly, but it will still not work. I have also configured my apache2 
> files to take in those two sites.
> 
> Can anyone help me or what do I need to do further?
> 
> Also, in regards to the log files, what permission settings does it need to 
> have for it work as I cannot get those to work properly. They work fine 
> under /var/log/apache2 but not under /home/joongcho/www_logs/. I have also 
> added in the log directives inside the apache2 files.
> 
Why do you need apache2 to write logs to you home dir?
Set the Errorlog and Customlog directives to some custom name, see the
default site example.

> Thanks a million to anyone who can help.
> 
> Joong Cho
> President
> Joong Cho Enterprises
> 
> &
> 
> Web Site Administrator and Web Site Designer
> http://www.joongcho.com/
> http://www.startreklibrary.com/ 
> 
> 
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Thanks...

Paul.

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