Server Name Location?????

**jackal** · 03-08-2003 09:28 PM

I have purchased a server that once had a different name.
Now I have changed name in the whm panel. and on all new account pages it shows new server name, but when I try this script it still shows old name. Where would I find the server name outside of the whm panel to change it? Where is it Hiding?

PHP Code:


<p>Welcome to future home of <!--#echo var="SERVER_NAME" --></p>

**Robert_** · 03-09-2003 11:20 AM

pico /etc/hosts

make sure it is showing the hostname you want if not change for example the srv1a's to your hostname

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.

00.000.000.00 srv1a.domain.com srv1a
127.0.0.1 localhost

ctrl x

pico /etc/sysconfig/network

check that matches

NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=srv1a.domain.com
GATEWAY=00.000.000.00

ctrl x

Reboot and everything should work

Keyword should!

**jackal** · 03-09-2003 11:42 AM

Thanks Robert that worked

using this on our skelton diretory

PHP Code:


<p>Welcome to future home of <!--#echo var="SERVER_NAME" --></p>

It returns this like it should

Welcome to future home of server.name.net

Any idea how we would change that script where it would show something like

Welcome to future home of New Domain

New Domain being the name of the site when a new user signs up?

Like I said thanks again

**Robert_** · 03-09-2003 12:22 PM

Im still setting up myself so this was a useful question.

You can do it with php

<p>
Welcome to the future home of

PHP Code:


<?php echo "http://$SERVER_NAME"; ?>

</p>

**Juanra** · 03-09-2003 01:42 PM

Ok, that SERVER_NAME variable is just the Apache SERVER_NAME env variable, which is given by the ServerName directive of httpd.conf. If you go to:

www.example.com

it will show "Welcome to future home of www.example.com" but if you go to:

host.name.com/~example/

then it will show "Welcome to the future home of host.name.com"

With SSI you can try this (in the first line put your own hostname as given by the ServerName directive in httpd.conf).

<h1>Under Construction</h1>

<h2></h2>


It is not be as bad as the simpler solution but I'm pretty sure some customers would get confused.

**jackal** · 03-09-2003 01:57 PM

Ok that shows under construction if possible want to show Welcome to the future home of domain.net

Your code gives this
http://64.71.165.249/~rad345c/

**Robert_** · 03-09-2003 02:12 PM

For that code to work the domain needs to be resolved to your nameservers.

hmm I dont think the code did that jackal I think that is the page you already have in your skel dir.

Im going to see what I can come up with I would also like it when the email goes out for the client to goto http://00.000.000.00/~username and get a some $domain coming soon.

**dgbaker** · 03-09-2003 02:17 PM

The only way we found to do this was to modify wwwacct and have it create a special file for us that we call.

I take it you want something like this?

http://www.dgbaker.net/

<?php

$FILEPATH = "../OUR SPECIAL FILE";
$FILE = fopen($FILEPATH, "r");
$a = fgets($FILE, 300); = DOMAIN NAME
$b = fgets($FILE, 300); = HOME SERVER
$c = fgets($FILE, 300); = USERNAME
fclose($FILE);

echo"<html><head>";
echo"<title>Welcome to the future home of $a</title>";
echo"</head><body style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; >";

ETC......

**Robert_** · 03-09-2003 02:28 PM

cool!

Thanks

**jackal** · 03-09-2003 03:39 PM

What would you put that in yur sketlon dir then everytime someone signs up it would add their domain to their index page. How ould this work with the temp ip like I have above.

**dgbaker** · 03-09-2003 03:48 PM

Our's works this way,

When a new account is being created we have an extra file created and added to there /home/user area.

In this file is their domain name and such. Then our default index.php file reads in that file to grab the info to build the index page.

So even if the user goes to http://Ip Address/~username, the index page is reading in the correct file and getting the domain name from the file. The index page is generated everytime it is needed.

Now we've done ours in the wwwacct file, but it should really be done in the postacct file /scripts.

**Robert_** · 03-09-2003 03:50 PM

Im trying to figure out how to modify the wwwacct

<-- not really a scripter ~ but its fun

so far this is what I got

open (indexdom, ">/usr/indexdomains.txt") or
die ("Cannot open indexdomains.txt");
print indexdom "$some variable";
close (indexdom);

that should print it to the file

I think still working on it

**dgbaker** · 03-09-2003 04:00 PM

Close.

open(CPDATA,">$uhomedir/FILENAME");
print CPDATA "$domain\n";
print CPDATA "MAIN HOST SERVER\n";
print CPDATA "$user\n";
close(CPDATA);
chmod 0644, "$uhomedir/FILENAME";

**jackal** · 03-09-2003 04:12 PM

tried to keep up, finally lost me though

**dgbaker** · 03-09-2003 05:02 PM

Originally posted by jackal
tried to keep up, finally lost me though

Okay I try to explain.

In /scripts/wwwacct we edited it and added this;

open(CPDATA,">$uhomedir/FILENAME");
print CPDATA "$domain\n";
print CPDATA "MAIN HOST SERVER\n";
print CPDATA "$user\n";
close(CPDATA);
chmod 0644, "$uhomedir/FILENAME";

Now in our skel_dir is the index.php file that is looking for variables. When the users home directory is created, the index.php is put there as well as our new file.

The index.php file reads the new file and assigns a each value in the file to a variable. Then the index.php uses those variable to build the page.

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