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Martin Hope
Toby Allen
Asked: 2015-05-22 07:36:57 +0800 CST
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I know how to set up multiple hosts in an apache httpd.conf file but is it possible to make that dynamic.

If I put my folders in directories like this.

c:\
   development\
               websites\
                        SiteA
                        SiteB
                        SiteC

Can I write my httpd.conf file in a way like this

<VirtualHost *:80>

ServerName *.example.com
DocumentRoot "c:/development/Websites/%1/"

</VirtualHost>

where %1or other variable marker is SiteA if the user visits sitea.example.com etc or event if siteA has to be a fully qualified domain that is fine.

apache-2.2
Martin Hope
Toby Allen
Asked: 2012-01-20 08:53:40 +0800 CST
  • 1

I am responsible for a small network spread over several buildings. We have accommodation areas that have a router providing access to the internet to guests.

I would love to be able to get the routers to call a URL on the internet which I could use to monitor that the router is up. Ideally it would do this once an hour or every 10 mins etc.

Is this possible? Does it have a specific name as I have never seen this ability on the home/office routers or switches we purchase.

router keepalive
Martin Hope
Toby Allen
Asked: 2011-12-05 11:32:33 +0800 CST
  • 2

We have a simple small business windows network with very basic internal security. We are a small college and want to provide access to the internet to your student body, but not to the internal network. We only have one outgoing broadband connection. Currently we achieve this by configuring the routers (currently 3) that all student PCs and Wireless network connect to so that they only have access to the outgoing broadband and no internal access.

This works fine, but is a little bit cumbersome and means in certain areas of the college even if you are staff you can only get access externally.

I have heard about packetfence which would allow us to set up rules for every device that connects to the network, removing the need for different subnets. However I have very little (virtually none) experience with linux, and even less with a machine with two network cards in it.

What I would like to be able to do is.

  • Put CentOS or other on an old PC and add a second network card.
  • Install PacketFence.
  • Make a simple config change to all the routers we have (maybe 10 - 15);
  • Start doling out access rights to devices on the network.

Is this possible? Am I being ridiculously simplistic?

If its possible, does someone know of a really good simple tutorial to do all the setup?

If not is there an alternative (I would consider a reasonable cost solution, but not huge cost).

Update:

Further Detail Requested.

I dont have a network diagram, and I'm not a network engineer, but I'll try my best.

  • We have lots of computers, routers and switches connected together all on Subnet 192.168.1.xxx
  • 1 Single outbound internet router on this subnet (254)
  • 3 routers connected to this main network but only providing access to their clients to the outbound router (254) they provide dhcp to their clients wired and wireless (mainly wireless) on 192.168.123.xxx

I don't mind putting another machine into the network specifically to run packetfence, or buying a couple of new routers if needed.

router centos networking network-monitoring
Martin Hope
Toby Allen
Asked: 2011-11-27 10:42:25 +0800 CST
  • 0

I have an apache installation on my dev machine. The httpd.conf is all set up right. By the config file I should be getting an access.log file in my logs directory, but it doesn't seem to exist in the directory.

However if I search for the file in AgentRansack it shows the file as existing and being some 400K in size. I am running Windows 7 with Apache started manually as a process not a service.

I have:

  • Set explorer to show system and hidden files
  • Tried to open from AgentRansack directly but I get an error, or a blank file.
  • Tried Shutting down apache to see if the files appear.

Why cant I access my access.log file? Is this a know issue.

apache-2.2 log-files files windows-7
Martin Hope
Toby Allen
Asked: 2011-10-19 02:32:30 +0800 CST
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I have been having some issues with a certain network supplier over unchanged nameservers making my site invisible to their customers. I wouldnt be bothered except that they are one of the largest ISP's in Ireland.

They claim that the records are still active on the old nameservers for my site so therefore they shouldn't change until they get a response telling them there are no dns records for the site.

My question is, what is the correct behaviour? Every other network provider, isp, dns server on the web has updated to my new nameservers.

Are they following some technically correct but ignored RFC that says they don't need to check new nameservers until the old ones return an error?

Update:

Vodafone eventually contacted me and have said they have resolved the issue, and more importantly are now escalating it to their correct technical staff so this issue shouldn't affect anyone else. Hope this solves the issue.

domain-name-system networking nameserver
Martin Hope
Toby Allen
Asked: 2011-10-16 06:33:14 +0800 CST
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We recently had to move our site between hosts. We moved the files and the database and then changed the nameservers to point to the new host. After a little bit of fiddling the site at the new host works well and all problems are fixed.

Well almost all, there remains one largish problem.

Irish (and possibly international) users who use vodafone (you know - the worlds second largest mobile phone company) are still being redirected to the oldsite - which now no longer exists so they are getting a non-working site.

I could understand if there was a delay of a few days before vodafone updated, but it has now been 2 weeks and all vodafone customers are still being sent to the wrong place.

All our other website visitors can see our site, all other isps in Ireland are correctly seeing the new site, googles dns servers see the new site.

We are getting phone calls from people saying that the can't see our site, every single one of these people has been using vodafone as an isp.

What I've Tried

I have tried to phone vodafone, but because I'm not a customer and because our site isn't hosted with vodafone and because I'm trying to contact their network systems people they really couldn't care less.

I've tried waiting - I assumed if I waited 10 days it might get updated, but its been 2 weeks now and still incorrect.

  • What can I do to get vodafone to update the nameservers for my site?

  • Why do they treat this differently to every other network provider on the web?

Update

According to http://www.who.is/dns/cookingisfun.ie/ The SOA record for my domain is 

cookingisfun.ie SOA 4 hours     ns1.dreamhost.com. hostmaster.dreamhost.com. 2011100306 20842 1800 1814400 14400

This is correct. I'm afraid I dont have the old details. If there is a problem in the SOA record does that mean that vodafone follows rules that everyone else ignores?

Previous nameservers were ns.webfusion.co.uk ns2.webfusion.co.uk

If I do a NSLookup from my machine using the OLD webfusion servers I get

C:\Users\Toby>nslookup


> server ns.webfusion.co.uk
Default Server:  ns.webfusion.co.uk
Address:  212.67.202.1

> cookingisfun.ie
Server:  ns.webfusion.co.uk
Address:  212.67.202.1

Name:    cookingisfun.ie
Address:  212.67.220.186

>

I will see if I can do that from someone who has vodafone as ISP

domain-name-system networking nameserver
Martin Hope
Toby Allen
Asked: 2011-05-23 05:26:04 +0800 CST
  • 0

We have a Windows 2003 server that out of the box we installed and ran Terminal Services. Now however the trial period is over and I am getting an error looking for a licence.

Remote Desktop Disconnected

The remote session was disconnected because there are no Terminal Server License Servers available to provide a license.

Please contact the server administrator.

All I really need it Remote Administration Services or Remote Desktop on my server which I believe doesnt require any additional licences. However I cant seem to get this to work while TS is still running and installed.

Stuff I've tried.

  • Remote Desktop Connections are enabled
  • I tried to stop the terminal services service but I couldn't.
  • I looked at uninstalling terminal services, but it says anything I installed after it was switched uon would need to be reinstalled (!!!!!).

Any Ideas?

remote-desktop terminal-server windows-server-2003 licensing
Martin Hope
Toby Allen
Asked: 2009-07-07 01:40:58 +0800 CST
  • 1

This is probably a really simple question but it's causing us problems.

We have a small company intranet with office staff and students who attend our school. We wish to give the students access to one website on the shared office server. The students connect to the internet and network using a seperate set of IP addresses (through the router) than the main office.

I added a new website to IIS, added an IP address, assigned the IP address to the website etc and everythign works fine - except that it mucks up the resolving. The two websites are called

Server (very origional - the name of the main office server)
and
StudentNet(again very origional - the name of the new website pointing to the new website)

We had a problem when we set it up that sometimes when an office pc tried to go to Server either in a browser (for interal sites) or as part of a connection string to a sql database etc it wouldnt find it. To fix this issue we added a line in the hosts file on all the office PC's, which works but I HATE this solution. Its old and clunky. When someone comes and connects into the network you need to add this to their host file or get them to use th e ip addres. When we buy new machines this needs to be done.

I cant believe there isnt a better solution involving either the Windows Server or one of the routers we have as gateway to the net.

Any suggestions?

windows-server-2003 domain-name-system iis configuration