Website issues - possibly DNS

[rcallbeck]

Good day,

I am migrating my company's website to a local server.. currently in the midst of it. I thought I had everything worked out... obviously not.

When I am on the server, I can browse to the site no problem. That is, I changed the hosts file to point to itself for the site.

(BTW, the page is http://www.kare.ca, residing at http://142.179.163.160).

However, on any other computer, I try to browse to either the IP address or DNS name, and I get the "hosting for this domain is not configured" page. I had our name registrar change over the ip addresses today, so it is currently in the midst of propagating.

I have checked throughout the Plesk forums, and I can find not a whiff of this problem. My DNS entries all seem to be ok. If I go through the preview site page, it previews no problem.

Any thoughts or ideas?

Thanks..

rcallbeck

 

[eWebtricity]

You might try restarting Apache, I have found that sometimes changes don't always take effect just by adding the domain/client to the admin panel.

DNS lookups from the USA seem to match the domain name and IP you specified in your post. So it's not a DNS problem and since Plesk is giving a default page it means that the server is configured with the correct IP address, it's just not pointing to the proper vhost directory.

Try restarting the Apache service.

 

[rcallbeck]

tried that..

restarting apache, that is... as well as bind... to no avail.

I have been going like crazy trying to find what might be going on... I haven't been able to find the vhosts.conf file... where should that file default to? would it be in:

/home/httpd/vhosts/<domainname>/conf/

or somewhere else. I am guessing it has to be that... as it keeps going to the default page...

 

[eWebtricity]

You should have the following in the /conf directory for each site

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4840 Jun 20 17:21 httpd.include
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4840 Jun 8 23:14 httpd.include.bak
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 291 Dec 13 2004 vhost_ssl.conf

 

[rcallbeck]

That must be it... in my <domain>/conf folder, I have..

httpd.include,
httpd.include.bak, and
webalizer.conf

do you know how I could get the vhosts_ssl file re-created?

edit: **I should note that I am connecting to the server via SSH term... but I am logged in as root

 

[rcallbeck]

fixed

Thanks for all of your help... I got it fixed. Turns out there were a number of includes/references in the httpd.include that were pointing to the default folder, and not the domain. Once this was corrected, no problem...