JasonDavis's questions

I have a Windows dev server running Apache/PHP/MySQL

I am trying to add a new VirtualHost entry. I have a VirtualHost entry already which works for wildcard .dev domains for folders in a directory under the dev servers Drive E

The dev server is located on a Drive letter E and the virtualhost entry I am having trouble with is on a different drive letter F. below is my config and error log

Apache virtualhost entry:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "F:\My Documents\E-Books"
    ServerName ebooks.dev
    ErrorLog "F:\My Documents\E-Books\error-log.log"
    # Other directives here
</VirtualHost>

Error Log Entry:

[Mon May 08 20:34:20.070003 2017] [authz_core:error] [pid 15668:tid 1628] [client 127.0.0.1:50373] AH01630: 
client denied by server configuration: F:/My Documents/E-Books/favicon.ico, referer: http://ebooks.dev/

Problem

Could the problem be that the new virtualhost entry is pointing to a different drive letter? I had trouble before trying to make a symlink from a folder on 2 different drive letters so maybe apache doesnt work either on different drives ?

I am interested in getting my head around the full concept of using Docker on my server for my web clients.

Ideally I would love to create a docker with apache, PHP, MySQL, email server, DNS server, redis, memcached, imagemagick, and more and have it where I can simply launch to a clients new server and be up in minutes.

I saw this Apcache Docker here https://hub.docker.com/r/eboraas/apache-php/

It says:

This is an Apache image including SSL and PHP5 support. In order to use this image effectively, you'll need to mount:

/var/www for your site content (e.g. using "-v /home/jdoe/mysite/:/var/www/") /var/log/apache2, optionally, if you want to store logfiles visibly outside the container /etc/ssl, optionally, if you wish to use SSL with real keys

More specificlly:

Mount /var/www for your site content

If I understand correctly this is to allow outside folder/files of websites to exist on the server outside of the Docker image so that Docker is basically just to handle the actual server software?

Some more questions:

Would things like Apache Virtualhost records for adding domains exist inside the docker image or on the server outside of it and be editable?

I have MySQL running on an Ubuntu 12.04 web server. A basic LAMP stack.

I just have a couple of small websites running.

• a WordPress site
• A SugarCRM app
• little apps here and there. Only 2 domains though

Today I made a new post on WordPress and checked back 30 minutes later to see an error...

Error establishing a database connection

I then checked my 2nd domain which has SugarCRM and saw an error there as well in regards to connecting to the database.

I then SSH'd into the server and ran service mysql restart

Checked my sites again and all was well!

So my question is, is there a way to find out what could of cause this to happen in some sort of log? Or any ideas?

Is it possible to take a folder on an Ubuntu server that is full of files and sub-folders, hundreds of them and there are special file and folder owner and permissions set all within this folder.

To give a better explanation, I have a folder on an Ubuntu server that has the SugarCRM application installed in it.

I a wanting to know if there is an easy method to build some wort of script that will go through and set all the file/folder owners and permissions as they currently are on the server to a future install.

So basically if I were to simply copy the sugarcrm folder and paste it on another server, the script could go through and set all the permissions and owners the exact same as the original server had them?

My ultimate goal is to build a bash script that can use RSync on the Ubuntu server to make a database back and file backup and then RSync them to a remote backup server over SSH. So far I have seen how to generate the database backup files as well as the folder of files/folders and then rsync them.

My problem is on the destination server, I do not know how I can restore using my backup files and have it keep the origin servers file and folder owner and permissions. Just restoring and overwriting the files would likely retain the permission and owners however I would like to know how to make it work where I could restore to brand new server using my backup files and have all the proper permissions and owners set!

Information on the Mail Server Installation Process Followed...

Hello I have a server with DigitalOcean that I am trying to install an email server on so I can add and manage email accounts. This is my first time trying to install these servers as past projects had a CP that automatically installed and configured the mail servers.

Software to install or configure or both onto my Ubuntu 14.04 VPS:

• MySQL (already installed for my webserver)
• Postfix
• Dovecot

I have to say it's one of the hardest, or most time consuming processes I have attempted on a Ubuntu server to date.

Luckily I found the best tutorial I have seen online for setting up this mail server combination of Postfix, Dovecot, with MySQL to hold the EMail Account info at this URL on Linode... https://www.linode.com/docs/email/postfix/email-with-postfix-dovecot-and-mysql

It's a 45 step tutorial that is very detailed as far as what commands to run and which config files to modify and the values to add and remove from these config files. It's very new user friendly and doesn't leave much guessing which is great with such a task as this Mail Server combination of software..

I spent probably 5 hours! Going through the steps, making sure it was all done to the T perfectly and it seemed to have worked as all my test that the tutorial has you do such as making sure that Postfix is pulling email accounts, alias, and users/password from the MySQL tables that I created. It all seemed to work up until that part.

Once I got to the last step, it has you send an email from another account/server/service to one of your newly created email accounts to test that the mail server is working for receiving email. I went ahead and sent my new email address linked to my domain name from my Gmail account and the next day I received the bounce email back on my Gmail for a failed email delivery! It seems my efforts have only partially worked and the mail server is not working! I say partially worked because as I mentioned Postfix was returning the proper stuff from MySql so I know that some of it is set up correctly and functioning but somewhere near the end of the process it is wrong or not working.

1 thing that I was slightly confused about is in that tutorial and many others where they mention using an (FQDN) Fully Qualified Domain Name AND the Servers Localhost name. Now where I am confused is that all the emaples I always see show real Domain names example.com for these values however mine is not a real domain name...

My FQDN value is set to: Apollo-Web-Studio

My servers Localhost value is set to: Apollo-Web-Studio

So as you can see my values are not set to a .com style Domain name and instead just a name. Could this be part of the problem??

The server does have a domain name, it's just not set as the FQDN and Localhost values.

Debugging the Mail Servers

So to start trying to track down what is and is not working I then referred to the article linked to from the first tutorial URL above. It has a link to a Troubbleshooting atutorial located here...
https://www.linode.com/docs/email/postfix/troubleshooting-problems-with-postfix-dovecot-and-mysql/

I ran in command line: service dovecot status

The result was not pretty: * postfix is not running

I then ran service postfix restart and the result was this:

 * Stopping Postfix Mail Transport Agent postfix
   ...done.
 * Starting Postfix Mail Transport Agent postfix
   ...done.

So then again I check to make sure it did start and I get this...
service postfix status = * postfix is not running

As you can see a restart did not actually start Postfix =(

So moving on anyways to check the status of Dovecot. I ran the same commands but for Dovecot...

service dovecot status and I get better results with this one... dovecot start/running, process 7660 so it appears that it is running just fine as a running service at least!

So I have not proceeded any furthor since I cannot seem to get Postfix running.

I then checked the log file that it mentions to check located here /var/log/mail.log results below =

Dec 24 00:39:59 Apollo-Web-Studio postfix/master[1060]: warning: master_wakeup_timer_event: service pickup(public/pickup): No such file or directory
Dec 24 00:40:25 Apollo-Web-Studio postfix/smtpd[7800]: fatal: open lock file pid/inet.smtp: cannot create file exclusively: No such file or directory
Dec 24 00:40:26 Apollo-Web-Studio postfix/master[1060]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd pid 7800 exit status 1
Dec 24 00:40:26 Apollo-Web-Studio postfix/master[1060]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling

I then checked log file /var/log/mail.err which basically just had these 2 error lines repeated over and over and over so I will just post the 2 lines that it repeats in the file below =

Dec 24 00:34:03 Apollo-Web-Studio postfix/master[7593]: fatal: bind 0.0.0.0 port 25: Address already in use
Dec 24 00:34:19 Apollo-Web-Studio postfix/smtpd[7613]: fatal: open lock file pid/inet.smtp: cannot create file exclusively: No such file or directory

Port Trouble?

In the log file entries posted above in the debugging section you might of seen the line that mentions in the mail.err log file...

Dec 24 00:34:03 Apollo-Web-Studio postfix/master[7593]: fatal: bind 0.0.0.0 port 25: Address already in use  

So it is saying port 25: Address already in use. If I go back to the tutorial that I followed for the installation process I search for Port 25 and I find it!

It says this:

You should use Port 993 for secure IMAP, Port 995 for secure POP3, and Port 25 with SSL for SMTP.

Looking back at the tutorial I followed for the installation, every mention of using and setting Port 25 are all in the sections for configuring Postfix and since that is the server that seems to not want to start now, would you think this could be my main problem?

I also ran this in terminal to see what had tied up Port 25 alread...

sudo netstat -lnp |grep :25  

The results:

tcp    0  0 0.0.0.0:25  0.0.0.0:*   LISTEN
1060/master
tcp6   0  0 :::25     :::*        LISTEN
1060/master

I will also need some assistance/info on fixing the Port 25 problem. I really know very little about configuring Linux servers, my knowledge is pretty much limited to years of following tutorials like this one when I need to install software and mostly just setting up LAMP servers for websites!

I feel like I am really close to getting this mail sever working though and would be greatly appreciative if someone can help me to get it working 100%. I have put almost 8 hours into this so far, just on the mail server! SO besides really needing it, I also have invested all that time and have it 90% working/setup I believe so I can't quit and give up now!

Please help some Linux Guru thank you

My client runs a blog site where he is an author with many published books and blogging is now his full time job.

The issue is he blogs about a lot of political topics, mainly things to do with terrorists and ISIS and that sort of thing. He is constantly receiving death threats and his site has been hacked several times.

He is now wanting me to get and set up an SSL certificate.

The problem is for security reason on his life, he does not want to make his address a public data.

Is there a way to set up an SSL Certificate without revealing my clients address information?

I just spun up a new server on Digital Ocean that I plan to use for Backup files....my client has a website on a Share Hosting server running wordpress and I cannot get them to let me migrate to a better server. They have a WordPress plugin called Updraft which does daily backups and is able to upload the files to a remote server using FTP, so I got this server setup just for his backup files.

I installed ProFTPd on this ubuntu 12.04 server using the instruction here... https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-proftpd-on-ubuntu-12-04

Very basic Step 1...

sudo apt-get install proftpd

Step 2 Configure ProFTP....

Open up the file:

sudo nano /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf

Go ahead and make a few changes:

Change the Server Name to your host name

ServerName                      "example.com"

Uncomment the line that says Default Root. Doing so will limit users to their home directory.

# Use this to jail all users in their homes
 DefaultRoot  ~  

Step 3 Access the FTP server....

Once you have installed the FTP server and configured it to your liking, you can now access it.

You can reach an FTP server in the browser by typing the domain name into the address bar and logging in with the appropriate ID. Keep in mind, you will only be able to access the user's home directory when connecting to the virtual server.

ftp://example.com

Alternatively, you can reach the FTP server through the command line by typing:

 ftp example.com

So I did all that and the FTP server is running now however I cannot login as I enter in my root user and the password for my root user on the server and that does not work.

I imagined it would have it's own user/passwords for this FTP but I saw nowehere in the article or anywhere on where or how to set a user/password for the FTP...did I miss something?

I don't even need a webserver. simply an FTP server to login and upload files from another server with!

I recently switched my site over to using HTTPS in all the URL's. (My post here)

I am running Apache with PHP on Ubuntu 12.0.4

I was told that I should install the Apache module for SPDY since I am using SSL / HTTPS so I followed the directions on this site to install it, it installed without a problem... https://developers.google.com/speed/spdy/mod_spdy/

My problems start with PHP... if you view this page https://developers.google.com/speed/spdy/mod_spdy/php you can read about using PHP with SPDY

Basically it says that you need to use mod_fcgid instead of mod_php

My server currently uses mod_php for all my sites to run. So I installed the mod_fcgid handler and it installed without an issue. The problem was when I try to re-boot Apache. Things went crazy due to the content in my Apach config files.

from my http.conf file...

<IfModule mod_php5.c>
    AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
    php_flag magic_quotes_gpc Off
    php_flag track_vars On
    php_flag register_globals Off
    php_admin_value upload_tmp_dir /var/zpanel/temp
</IfModule>

Changing the mod_php5 above to use the new mod_fcgid does not resolve my issues, it instead says that there is a problem with things like php_flag magic_quotes_gpc Off it appears php_flag is not valid when using mod_fcgid ?

Sorry I don't have the exact errors now as I have restored my server back to mod_php so that it will work.

Everywhere in my config files where I have calls to mod_fcgid seemed to through an error though.

Any ideas how I can get this working?

I just installed an SSL Certificate on my server.

It then set up a redirect for all traffic on my domain on Port 80 to redirect it to Port 443.

In other words, all my http://example.com traffic is now redirected to the appropriate https://example.com version of the page.

The redirect is done in my Apache Virtual Hosts file with something like this...

RewriteEngine on
ReWriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [NC,R,L] 

My question is, are there any drawbacks to using SSL?

Since this is not a 301 Redirect, will I lose link juice/ranking in search engines by switching to https?

I appreciate the help. I have always wanted to set up SSL on a server, just for the practice of doing it, and I finally decided to do it tonight. It seems to be working well so far, but I am not sure if it's a good idea to use this on every page. My site is not eCommerce and doesn't handle sensitive data; it's mainly for looks and the thrill of installing it for learning.

UPDATED ISSUE

Strangely Bing creates this screenshot from my site now that it is using HTTPS everywhere...

I am trying to restrict access to viewing Directory Indexes or viewing lists of files in a directory unless your IP is in a whitelist.

I am using Apache web server and an .htaccess file.

So here is what I have so far

Options -Indexes
<Files *>
deny from all
allow from 71.56.134.456
allow from 71.55.104.468
Options +Indexes
</Files>

This partially works. This does restrict directory viewing to everyone unless there IP is listed. The problem is it also restricts non-whitelisted IP's from viewing files as well.

I need to restrict there access from directory lists but not direct file access.

Please help me

On my local Windows LAMP Dev server, I set up test sites with the domains like this...

http://projectName.dev
http://www.projectName.dev

I then have a simple program that also adds the appropriate records to my Windows HOSTS file...

127.0.0.1   projectName.dev   
127.0.0.1   www.projectName.dev   

The magic happens with my Apache vHosts file... Using the settings below in my Apache config file...

NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
     VirtualDocumentRoot  E:/Server/htdocs/projects/%-2/www
    ServerName staging.dev
    ServerAlias *.dev www.*.dev
</VirtualHost>

This all works great on my Local Windows Dev Server. So now this folder...

E:/Server/htdocs/projects/ holds all my main projects that deserved having there own domain on my Dev server. The way I have it set up, all the web accessible content that Apache servers lives in the www folder inside of the domains project folder.

So looking at this folder E:/Server/htdocs/projects/projectName/ there is 1 folder which is the www folder. This works out great because it makes it easy for me to save other project related files in this root folder, like Client information files or custom PSD image files, or just anything related to that project that I do not want to be part of that projects website.

What I would also like to add to this folder now is other things like Log files that Apache creates. I think this folder would be a perfect spot for those files... E:/Server/htdocs/projects/projectName/logs

So I attempted to add something like this below to my vHosts file with no luck. The result is Apache will not boot up once I add this code below.

Could someone help to to set this properly? Also do you know if there's a simple solution to also have like PHP log any errors or such to these appropriate project level log folders?

Testing to set up Log paths...

NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
     VirtualDocumentRoot  E:/Server/htdocs/projects/%-2/www
    ServerName staging.dev
    ServerAlias *.dev www.*.dev
    ErrorLog "E:/Server/htdocs/projects/%-2/logs/error.log"
    CustomLog "E:/Server/htdocs/projects/%-2/logs/access.log" common
</VirtualHost>

On my local dev server, I set up test sites with the domain like this projectName.dev

Using the setting below in my Apache config file...

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
   VirtualDocumentRoot  E:/Server/htdocs/projects/%1/www
   ServerAlias *.dev
</VirtualHost>

This allows me to access projectName.dev in the browser and it will load the files from E:/Server/htdocs/projects/projectName/www/

I would like to modify this so that I can also access the same folders if I use the subdomain www so in my example projectName.dev and www.projectName.dev would load the same files.

Can someone help me to do this? I don't understand the documentation very well

I have a wordpress site that is at a URL and I am wanting to redirect all traffic except a few IP address to a coming soon type page.

So if I had 3 IP's, those 3 IP's would see the current wordpress site and all other traffic would be redirect to a certain URL

Is this possible with Apache? Something that could be put in an .htaccess file?

In my Apache (Xampp) httpd-vhosts.conf file I have added this Virtualhost It allows me to use Wildcard names like testserver1.dev and testserver2.dev I just have to make sure to add the name to my Windows Hosts file.

<VirtualHost *:80>
  VirtualDocumentRoot  E:/Server/htdocs/projects/%1/www
  ServerAlias *.dev
</VirtualHost>

What I would like to do though is add to this funtionality and make it work if the name begins with a www so testserver1.dev would also work as www.testserver1.dev

The way it currently is set up, if I tried to access that URL, it would look in a folder called www.testserver1 instead of the folder testserver1

I was just looking at Zend Server I am a little confused, is it something you run on Apache or something you run INSTEAD of Apache for using PHP?

I am running Xampp which is a LAMP setup basicly but for windows. I have been using it for years now with no trouble and all of a sudden, all my sites pages that use PHP sessions are now giving errors like this...

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at C:\webserver\htdocs\friendproject2\labs\2.php:1) in C:\webserver\htdocs\friendproject2\labs\2.php on line 3

I realize that this happens from 1 of 2 things generally.

1. If there is any whitespace printed to screen before session_start() function is called, that can sometimes cause this to happen
2. If there is anything printed to the screen/browser before the session_start() is called.

Now my problem is different. Before tonight, I had hundreds of files that used sessions and none of them showed any of these errors. It is not just 1 file where I am overlooking a user error, this just started affecting all my files. I have not made any changes to my computer tonight or recently that I recall either.

What could be causing this? It is driving me insane and nobody seems to know why this started happening. I think it must be server related

I can even create a file and put it into any folder of my servers web and be a simple file like this bvelow and it will still give the error I show above....

<?PHP
session_start();

$_SESSION['test'] = 'test value';

echo $_SESSION['test'];
?>

I have Googled, searched StackOverflow and here. Still I can not fully understand what or why someone would use Squid.

All I can find out so far is that it is some sort of cache that can make it less work that your server (i.e. Apache) has to do. So can someone clarify exactly what Squid does and more importantly, why would I want to use Squid?

I have a large social network site so maybe it would benefit for serving images or something, I am currently running lighttpd seperate from Apache, just for serving images.

I need to install memcache on my dev server,

I am using Xampp on Windows

I have read a few sites that say you uncomment these lines in the php.ini file for xampp which I have done

extension=php_memcache.dll
[Memcache]
memcache.allow_failover = 1
memcache.max_failover_attempts=20
memcache.chunk_size =8192
memcache.default_port = 11211

Then it says:

Then head to Jellycan Code http://code.jellycan.com/memcached/ and download the Windows memcached port (binary). At this point you should be able to launch the .exe and run the sample code above.

I have done all this and I cannot fine a single .exe file in the memcache package, I tried downloading ALL the memcache packages and checked them all and cannot find any exe files, and I don't think I am overlooking it as I searched the folder with 0 results.

Also every site I have read on how to install memcache on xampp give these same directions, please help someone

I am running xampp which has Apache on windows for a dev server. I need to use a subdomain of localhost to access my localhost/images/ folder by going to h##p://images.localhost

However I am having trouble, I have posted an image below showing my problem.

So the question is how to you setup a subdomain on Apache and actually have it work for a folder like I need?

Please view this image, sorry new users can't post more then 1 url and NO images so here is my 1 url to an important image

http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/b0194b8e68.jpg

UPDATED VERSION

My apache conf file

NameVirtualHost localhost:8080

<VirtualHost localhost:8080>
   ServerName localhost
   ServerAdmin [email protected]
   DocumentRoot c:\server\htdocs
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost images.localhost:8080>
   ServerName images.localhost
   ServerAdmin [email protected]
   DocumentRoot c:\server\htdocs\images
</VirtualHost>


My windows host file

127.0.0.1 images.localhost
127.0.0.1 *.localhost

****UPDATE- I got it working now, I just had to change to The port number is important here.**

I just modified my windows HOST file @ C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc

and added this to the end of it

127.0.0.1 images.localhost
127.0.0.1 w-w-w.friendproject-.com
127.0.0.1 friendproject.-com

Then I modified my httpd-vhosts.conf file on Apache under Xampp @ C:\webserver\apache\conf\extra

Under the part where it shows examples for adding virtualhost I added this code below:

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /htdocs/images/
    ServerName images.localhost
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /htdocs/
    ServerName friendproject.com/
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /htdocs/
    ServerName w-ww-.friendproject.c-om/
</VirtualHost>

Now the problem is when I go to any of the newly added domains in the browser I get this error below and even worse news is I now get this error even when going to http://localhost/ which worked fine before doing this

I realize I can change everything back but I really need to at least get htt-p://im-ages.localhost to work.

What do I do?

Access forbidden! You don't have permission to access the requested directory. There is either no index document or the directory is read-protected. If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster . Error 403 localhost 07/25/09 21:20:14 Apache/2.2.11 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8i PHP/5.2.9