Adam's questions

I'm new to dns admin so please be gentle. Here is my set-up:

Domain name with a few A records points to my personal IP. example.com server1.example.com server2.example.com Router forwards all port 80 requests to a Ubuntu VM box with Bind9 and Webmin installed Bind9 is then supposed to resolve the server1.example.com and server2.example.com Then send them to some more VM's that host host web apps.

I think i have my master record set up for the domain on the Bind9 box correctly, but when go to the domain, I get the holding page for my Ubuntu VM web server and not the server1 or server2 boxes.

It appears to be getting to my Bind9 box but no further. Is this because I have the hosted DNS record on the internet and another on my internal box? or are they supposed to work together? Is it because my Bind9 isn't listening correctly?

I have been using webmin to set up the bind9, and it keeps saying all my config files are okay.

Any help, or pointers for things to look for would be gratefully received.

I have a few domains pointing to my router which then forwards them onto a server within my firewall. The server is running apache2 and everything works well - my website pops up.

I have set up a few virtual servers behind the firewall too which all do different things and have different websites. How do I set up the first server to act as a DNS for the others.

So something like

 Url          -> Router          -> Domain server   -> Other Server on Network

 address1.com -> 123.123.123.123 -> 192.168.1.201

 address2.com -> 123.123.213.123 -> 192.168.1.201   -> 192.168.1.202

 address3.com -> 123.123.123.123 -> 192.168.1.201   -> 192.168.1.203

This seems like a pretty straight forward question, but im new to all this. Is it something I do the first server apache hosts? or do I need to install a DNS server like bind? I have webmin which I am using for a lot of stuff so I'm imagine the options are in there somewhere :-)

Thanks for your help, Adam

I'm new to apache2 and passenger to set-up rails apps and followed a tutorial on how to get redmine (rails app) set up (http://xdissent.com/2010/05/04/github-clone-with-redmine/).

It all works great but to access the app you need to go to the /redmine directory. I have set it up as redmine.local/redmine. It would be great if I could be just redmine.local.

I had a look through the files I set up as part of the apache/mongrel/passenger piece and took out references to the directory but alas its never that easy.

I would appreciate any assistance, or links to more information for beginners that I can learn from.

Thanks for your help! Adam

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Some additional details, I have the following files which i made edits too as part of the set-up of the server:

/etc/apache2/conf.d/redmine

 Include /opt/redmine/apps/redmine/conf/redmine.conf

/opt/redmine/apps/redmine/conf/redmine.conf

 ProxyPass /redmine balancer://redminecluster
 ProxyPassReverse /redmine balancer://redminecluster

 <Proxy balancer://redminecluster>
   BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:3001/redmine
   BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:3002/redmine
   Order deny,allow
   Allow from all
 </Proxy>

/opt/redmine/apps/redmine/config/mongrel_cluster.yml

 --- 
 prefix: /redmine
 log_file: log/mongrel.log
 port: "3001"
 environment: production
 pid_file: tmp/pids/mongrel.pid
 servers: 2

/etc/apache2/sites-available/default

 <VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

 <Directory /var/www/>
    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 /var/www/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 /var/www/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>
 DocumentRoot /var/www

 </VirtualHost>

I can't find a file that references the current directory /redmine as a route so not sure the server finds it in the first place - unless its that conf.d thing.