Matt Elhotiby's questions

Ok so I just started a new ubuntu server 11.10 and i added the vhost and all seems ok ...I also restarted apache but when i visit the browser i get a blank page

the server ip is http://23.21.197.126/ but when i tail the log

tail -f /var/log/apache2/error.log 
[Wed Feb 01 02:19:20 2012] [error] [client 208.104.53.51] File does not exist: /etc/apache2/htdocs
[Wed Feb 01 02:19:24 2012] [error] [client 208.104.53.51] File does not exist: /etc/apache2/htdocs

but my only file in sites-enabled is this

<VirtualHost 23.21.197.126:80>
         ServerAdmin [email protected]
         ServerName logicxl.com
         # ServerAlias
         DocumentRoot /srv/crm/current/public
         ErrorLog /srv/crm/logs/error.log

           <Directory "/srv/crm/current/public">
             Order allow,deny
             Allow from all
           </Directory>
   </VirtualHost>

is there something i am missing .....the document root should be /srv/crm/current/public and not /etc/apache2/htdocs as the error suggests

Any ideas on how to fix this

UPDATE

sudo apache2ctl -S
VirtualHost configuration:
23.21.197.126:80       is a NameVirtualHost
     default server logicxl.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/crm:1)
     port 80 namevhost logicxl.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/crm:1)
Syntax OK

UPDATE

 <VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    ServerName logicxl.com
    DocumentRoot /srv/crm/current/public
    <Directory />
            Options FollowSymLinks
            AllowOverride None
    </Directory>
    <Directory /srv/crm/current/public/>
            Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
            AllowOverride None
            Order allow,deny
            allow from all
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

    # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
    # alert, emerg.
    LogLevel warn

    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

I just setup a new amazon ec2 instance and installed apache and setup the configs and everything but when i visit the url there is nothing....do i have the proper ports open and asscociated to apache...here is my ports..am i missing anything

 sudo netstat -nap
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address               Foreign Address             State       PID/Program name   
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:3306                0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      1260/mysqld         
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22                  0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      1116/sshd           
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:25                0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN      1290/sendmail: acce 
tcp        0      0 10.244.133.179:34223        207.171.163.206:80          TIME_WAIT   -                   
tcp        0    208 10.244.133.179:22           24.172.85.150:3797          ESTABLISHED 1432/sshd: ec2-user 
tcp        0      0 :::80                       :::*                        LISTEN      1324/httpd          
tcp        0      0 :::22                       :::*                        LISTEN      1116/sshd           
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:68                  0.0.0.0:*                               1001/dhclient       
udp        0      0 10.244.133.179:123          0.0.0.0:*                               1136/ntpd           
udp        0      0 127.0.0.1:123               0.0.0.0:*                               1136/ntpd           
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:123                 0.0.0.0:*                               1136/ntpd           
udp        0      0 fe80::1031:3dff:fe0:123     :::*                                    1136/ntpd           
udp        0      0 ::1:123                     :::*                                    1136/ntpd           
udp        0      0 :::123                      :::*                                    1136/ntpd

also running

sudo lsof -i -n -P 
COMMAND   PID     USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
dhclient 1001     root    5u  IPv4   1942      0t0  UDP *:68 
sshd     1116     root    3u  IPv4   2412      0t0  TCP *:22 (LISTEN)
sshd     1116     root    4u  IPv6   2414      0t0  TCP *:22 (LISTEN)
ntpd     1136      ntp   16u  IPv4   2497      0t0  UDP *:123 
ntpd     1136      ntp   17u  IPv6   2498      0t0  UDP *:123 
ntpd     1136      ntp   18u  IPv4   2500      0t0  UDP 127.0.0.1:123 
ntpd     1136      ntp   19u  IPv4   2501      0t0  UDP 10.244.133.179:123 
ntpd     1136      ntp   20u  IPv6   2502      0t0  UDP [::1]:123 
ntpd     1136      ntp   21u  IPv6   2503      0t0  UDP [fe80::1031:3dff:fe00:8249]:123 
mysqld   1260    mysql   10u  IPv4   2644      0t0  TCP *:3306 (LISTEN)
sendmail 1290     root    4u  IPv4   2701      0t0  TCP 127.0.0.1:25 (LISTEN)
httpd    1324     root    4u  IPv6   2745      0t0  TCP *:80 (LISTEN)
httpd    1403   apache    4u  IPv6   2745      0t0  TCP *:80 (LISTEN)
httpd    1404   apache    4u  IPv6   2745      0t0  TCP *:80 (LISTEN)
httpd    1405   apache    4u  IPv6   2745      0t0  TCP *:80 (LISTEN)
httpd    1406   apache    4u  IPv6   2745      0t0  TCP *:80 (LISTEN)
httpd    1407   apache    4u  IPv6   2745      0t0  TCP *:80 (LISTEN)
httpd    1408   apache    4u  IPv6   2745      0t0  TCP *:80 (LISTEN)
httpd    1409   apache    4u  IPv6   2745      0t0  TCP *:80 (LISTEN)
httpd    1410   apache    4u  IPv6   2745      0t0  TCP *:80 (LISTEN)
sshd     1432     root    3r  IPv4   3313      0t0  TCP 10.244.133.179:22->24.172.85.150:3797 (ESTABLISHED)
sshd     1434 ec2-user    3u  IPv4   3313      0t0  TCP 10.244.133.179:22->24.172.85.150:3797 (ESTABLISHED)

ANy ideas how to address this issue ....I am on ubuntu 10.04 on amazon ec2 here is the image

I have an aws ec2 server Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS and every week it keeps shutting down for whatever reason I have no idea. I go in the aws console and reboot the server and all is well. What can be causing this. I can ssh in and I want to know if anyone knows of where to look and what to look for. Is there a file or an error log that will tell me what is causing the server to shut down...any ideas..

Here is the domain if that helps

I am trying to install this application named socialengine and all is going well except on the mysql screen i keep getting this error

 The MySQL storage engine is not installed. 

I notice my sock file is here

mysqld --verbose --help | grep ^socket
110602 10:06:06 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
socket                            /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

So it appears to be running

So reading online i thought i can resolve this by adding this to my vim /etc/mysql/my.cnf file

[client]
port            = 3306
socket          = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

[mysqld_safe]
socket          = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
nice            = 0


[mysqld]

key_buffer = 224M
sort_buffer_size = 4M
read_buffer_size = 4M
read_rnd_buffer_size = 4M
myisam_sort_buffer_size = 12M
query_cache_size = 44M
default-storage-engine=innodb

basically I added the last line and then

 service mysql restart

but what happens is after i restart I now get this error that cant find my sock

Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)

what happen....and how do i address this

Update after running

ps axf | grep [m]ysql
 5056 ?        S      0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables --skip-networking
 5189 ?        Sl     3:57  \_ /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --skip-grant-tables --skip-networking --pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/li317-112.pid --socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock --port=3306
10832 ?        Ssl    0:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld

I used this command

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -j DROP

because i was trying to stop port 22 outgoing since i was getting a warnings from amazon and now i cant ssh in....what do i do

I launched keep launching EC2 instances and for some reason i keep getting this email and then the server amazon shuts the server down...How do i restrict access to the port in question...

here is my email

We have detected that your instance(s):

i-acfadec3

have been behaving in the following way that is against our AWS Customer Agreement:

Port Scanning

Please be aware that in terms of the Web Services License Agreement http://aws.amazon.com/agreement/ if your instance(s) continue such abusive behavior, your account may be subject to termination.

EC2 has taken the following administrative action(s) against your instance(s):

THROTTLED OUTBOUND PORT 22

It may be possible that you are not hosting this yourself, but your environment may have been compromised by an external attacker. It remains your responsibility to ensure that your instances and all applications are secured against attack. Furthermore, you should:

• Restrict access to specific and required ports and source addresses using the ’ec2-authorize’ command.

I have a directory that is showing up with the permission mask drwsrwsr-x. When I try to reset the permissions to 755 the S still remains.

What is the "s" and why cant I change the permissions back to 775 (drwxrwxr-x)?

I just launched an ec2 server and put all the php code on the server and I need to change the permissions so that a user cant go to the site like http:example.com/admin and see the list of php files....Do I need to change the permissions on the entire folder or each file or is there a recursive -R command that will work ...I think they are all currently 777 ...which is bad

I have a folder on my mac that I need to move over to my server. I can ssh in the server but how do i get this folder up....

say I am on my local computer and the folder is named shared and I want to put it on the server in /srv/www/somesite/current. How do i enter the password in my scp command

I found this but i dont think its right

scp -r shared/* [email protected]:/srv/www/somesite/current/shared

I am trying to new user that can sftp on a server....i did this

ubuntu@ip-10-112-46-15:~$ sudo useradd jesse -p testPass
ubuntu@ip-10-112-46-15:~$ sudo passwd jesse
Enter new UNIX password: 
Retype new UNIX password: 
passwd: password updated successfully

but when i try to login via sftp I cant get in....am i missing something like adding a group or something

the answer was

PasswordAuthentication yes

Ok so i have a server and I want to put a few applications on and i am having vhost configuration problems. Here is what i have and I want some direction on what i am doing wrong...ok so the first file is /etc/apache2/ports.conf

NameVirtualHost 184.106.111.142:80
Listen 80

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
    Listen 443
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_gnutls.c>
    Listen 443
</IfModule>

then i have /etc/apache2/sites-available/somesite.com

<VirtualHost 184.106.111.142:80>
      ServerAdmin [email protected]
      ServerName somesite.com
      ServerAlias www.somesite.com
      DocumentRoot /srv/www/somesite.com/
      ErrorLog /srv/www/somesite.com/logs/error.log
      CustomLog /srv/www/somesite.com/logs/access.log combined
        <Directory "/srv/www/somesite.com/">
                AllowOverride all
                Options -MultiViews
        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

when i visit somesite.com everything works great but when i add another vhost and lets say thats named anothersite.com. So i have /etc/apache2/sites-available/anothersite.com

<VirtualHost 184.106.111.142:80>
      ServerAdmin [email protected]
      ServerName anothersite.com
      ServerAlias www.anothersite.com
      DocumentRoot /srv/www/anothersite.com/
      ErrorLog /srv/www/anothersite.com/logs/error.log
      CustomLog /srv/www/anothersite.com/logs/access.log combined
        <Directory "/srv/www/anothersite.com/">
                AllowOverride all
                Options -MultiViews
        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

then i run the following commands

>> sudo a2ensite anothersite.com
 Enabling site anothersite.com.
 Run '/etc/init.d/apache2 reload' to activate new configuration!
>> /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
 * Reloading web server config apache2
 ...done.

but when i visit anothersite.com or somesite.com they are both down..What is going on with the vhosts. Could it be the NameVirtualHost declaration with the ip or something...maybe my understanding of vhost settings is not clear. What i dont understand is why do both site now all the sudden not work at all.I would highly appreciate the clarity

By the way anothersite.com or somesite.com are the only things I changed to make it more readable

I installed mysql on ubuntu server and i dont know what went wrong...it didnt install a mysql root user so i tried to uninstall and start over and now i cant unistall

i tried this

apt-get remove php5-mysql
apt-get remove mysql-server mysql-client
apt-get autoremove

but when i do

ps aux | grep mysql

root      6066  0.0  0.0   1772   540 pts/1    S    03:21   0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe
mysql     7065  0.0  0.6  58936 11900 pts/1    Sl   03:33   0:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld --   basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid -- socket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock --port=3306
root      7066  0.0  0.0   2956   688 pts/1    S    03:33   0:00 logger -t mysqld -p daemon.error
root     22804  0.0  0.0   3056   780 pts/1    R+   04:14   0:00 grep mysql

so i killed the processes and then tried to reinstall like this

apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client
sudo mysqladmin -u root -h localhost password 'root'

but i get this

mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)'

im confused..i keep installing and uninstalling mysql and the same result..any ideas

I just fired a new amazon ec2 instance and i followed these directions and i get this when i visit the site

  File does not exist: /htdocs

also how do i get the elastic ip for this server because on the amazon console its blank

i cant tell what kind of ubuntu this is ..i see this

 Linux domU-12-31-39-02-5D-E7 2.6.31-302-ec2 #7-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 13 19:06:04 UTC 2009 i686

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

    DocumentRoot /var/www
    <Directory />
            Options FollowSymLinks
            AllowOverride None
    </Directory>
    <Directory /var/www/>
            Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
            AllowOverride None
            Order allow,deny
            allow from all
    </Directory>

    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
    <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
            AllowOverride None
            Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
            Order allow,deny
            Allow from all
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log

    # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
    # alert, emerg.
    LogLevel warn

    CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined

 Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
 <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
    Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Order deny,allow
     Deny from all
     Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
     </Directory>

    </VirtualHost>

I posted a question about this issue earlier but i am pasting the vhost file here to show that i am going to the same location when i go to nacc.biz and kadence.tv if you look at the bottom of the file it shows that i set the NameVirtualHost but why are they going to the same location....

the files for kadence is

/var/www/html/

the files for nacc is

/var/www/html/nacc/

I have my httpd.conf on fedora 8 that I am setting the virtual host file. Here is what I have:

DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"
<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
</Directory>

<Directory "/var/www/html">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

then below I am trying to setup a vhost to have multiple sites on the server:

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName kadence.tv
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName nacc.biz
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/nacc/
</VirtualHost>

also in the /var/www/html/ directory I have the index.php file for the kadence site...when I do to either site I get the index for the kadence site...any ideas what I am doing wrong

EDIT the full contents of my httpd configuration file are here.

I keep adding more vhosts and enabling them but all the sites always do to the default vhost in sites-available

here is what the default kind of looks like with me only changing the ip for security reasons

 <VirtualHost 167.889.88.88:80>
     ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

     DocumentRoot /var/www
     <Directory />
             Options FollowSymLinks
             AllowOverride None
     </Directory>
     <Directory /var/www/>
             Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
             AllowOverride None
             Order allow,deny
             allow from all
     </Directory>

     ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
     <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
             AllowOverride None
             Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
             Order allow,deny
             Allow from all
     </Directory>

     ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log

     # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
     # alert, emerg.
     LogLevel warn

     CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined

 Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
 <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
     Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
     AllowOverride None
     Order deny,allow
     Deny from all
     Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
 </Directory>

 </VirtualHost>

and here is my other which i named some-site.net

 <VirtualHost *:80>
     ServerName some-site.net
     DocumentRoot "/var/www/vhosts/somesite.com/http/"

     <Directory "/var/www/vhosts/somesite.com/http/">
             AllowOverride all
             Options -MultiViews
     </Directory>
 </VirtualHost>

and it turned on my this command

sudo a2ensite some-site.net
 Enabling site some-site.net.
 Run '/etc/init.d/apache2 reload' to activate new configuration!

then i reloaded

/etc/init.d/apache2 reload
* Reloading web server config apache2
 ...done.

but when i visit the url some-site.net i get the index page that is for the default vhost...what am i doing wrong

mysql> show databases;
ERROR 1018 (HY000): Can't read dir of '.' (errno: 13)

 * Restarting web server apache2
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 184.106.238.30 for ServerName
 ... waiting apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using    184.106.238.30 for ServerName
...done.

I am installing a rails application teambox with passenger here is my vhost

<VirtualHost *:80>

DocumentRoot /var/www/teambox/public
ServerName www.something.com
<Directory /var/www/teambox/public>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Options -MultiViews
</Directory>

CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log

RailsEnv production
</VirtualHost>

and in my local host file i have

184.106.238.30 something.com

I have a client that has a site which appears to have been hacked or something. I have the responsibility of trying to fix the issue.

www.[hatchachalink removed].com

Where would i look to fix the issue, in the htaccess of something