help with apache

[Scott Berry]

Tim,

It looks like your suggestion worked well.  Thanks so much it is very much 
appreciated.  Thank you also for taking the time to look through my 
httpd.conf file.

Scott

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim" <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>
To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 8:07 PM
Subject: Re: help with apache


> On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 09:54 -0500, Scott Berry wrote:
>> I am sorry to post this here but I can't seem to get on the Apache's
>> user mailing list.  I am having trouble getting apache to start.  The
>> syntax is okay but I have some dns assignments through dyndns.com
>> which I would like to use for Apache and I am having trouble with
>> Apache starting these.  My config file httpd.conf will be attached.
>
> You have two lines as follows:
>
>  Listen 192.168.1.115:80
>  Listen 80
>
> The first causes Apache to only listen to port 80 from that IP address,
> the second means to listen to port 80 on any address.  That's not
> logical.
>
> If you want Apache to respond to anything that connects, get rid of the
> first line.  Otherwise, list all the interface addresses that you want
> it to respond on, in the same manner as the first line.
>
> You have the servername commented out:
>
>  #ServerName http://www.pilotalk.dyndns.biz
>
> That is fine, the server will respond to any queries not caring what
> hostname is used.  But if you used URI re-writing rules, you might want
> to uncomment that, and write it as:
>
> ServerName www.pilotalk.dyndns.biz
>
> However, www.pilotalk.dyndns.biz doesn't give an answer for a DNS query.
> So, either you want to add a www record for your domain, or just use
> pilotalk.dyndns.biz as the server name.
>
> Personally, I'd recommend using the www prefixed one, and putting in URI
> re-write rules so that any connections made to pilotalk.dyndns.biz are
> re-written to www.pilotalk.dyndns.biz.  That gives you *one* address
> that people will use for your website.  That's important for caching.
> Having two addresses that respond, means you can get twice the traffic,
> artificially.
>
> If Apache has trouble resolving your domain name, it may cause a problem
> when you try to start the server.  You'd want to make sure that Apache
> can easily resolve your hostname, at all times.  That might mean
> ensuring your internet connection is up before starting Apache.  I
> wouldn't recommend putting an entry in your /etc/hosts file like:
>
> 127.0.0.1 www.pilotalk.dyndns.biz pilotalk.dyndns.biz
>
> As that can upset some of the scripts that are used to run the dynamic
> IP address updating with the dyndyns type of services.
>
> Everything else looked okay in the configuration file.
>
> Next you'd look at things outside of Apache (firewall rules, and your
> modem/router configuration).
>
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