Hello Everyone!
I just got started on a new VPS server and got myself a license for WHM / cPanel and have been thus far pretty happy with it.
I've got a need though and I've been trying to figure out how to make everything work but just leave myself more confused as I try new things to make it work.
Any help that could be given would be most appreciated as I've been trying for several hours no without any success.
I've got a machine that is on an IP address. I'll use 555.555.555.5 as my generic address for the purpose of this post.
On this machine I am running WHM and cPanel.
cPanel 11.25.0-R46156 - WHM 11.25.0 - X 3.9
CENTOS 5.5 i686 virtuozzo on server
I have been given a dedicated IP address for this machine which was pretty critical to what I am trying to do.
On the machine I plan on hosting one primary domain running Wordpress Multisite.
I created an account on the machine that we will call sample.
When I visit http://555.555.555.5/~sample the page loads.
I setup the proper NS records and got my DNS setup properly so when you visit Sample.com » Free Samples, Free Product Samples, Product Test Marketing it loads the website properly.
Since this is a multiuser Wordpress setup I also setup a *. subdomain in the cPanel at http://sample.com/cpanel
This works great. It allows me to visit whatever.sample.com and get the proper page that I want to see.
This works great for me but I need more. I'm looking to offer users the ability to map domains to blogs in Wordpress. So I've installed domain mapping plugins and they are properly configured.
So I create a CNAME for a second domain. We will call this one sample2.com.
When I visit sample2.com I get a redirect to the URL sample2.com/cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi
When I visit the machine IP http://555.555.555.5 I also get the same URL. Obviously this isn't correct and I want that IP address to also load the proper site.
I've done some reading on VHOST and I know that is the way to go but I'm pretty confused.
Was my mistake in creating a cPanel account?
What are your thoughts as I'm pretty confused at the moment.
The desired behavior is that http://555.555.555.5 will go to the account named sample. I believe once that is corrected everything else will fall in place.
I just got started on a new VPS server and got myself a license for WHM / cPanel and have been thus far pretty happy with it.
I've got a need though and I've been trying to figure out how to make everything work but just leave myself more confused as I try new things to make it work.
Any help that could be given would be most appreciated as I've been trying for several hours no without any success.
I've got a machine that is on an IP address. I'll use 555.555.555.5 as my generic address for the purpose of this post.
On this machine I am running WHM and cPanel.
cPanel 11.25.0-R46156 - WHM 11.25.0 - X 3.9
CENTOS 5.5 i686 virtuozzo on server
I have been given a dedicated IP address for this machine which was pretty critical to what I am trying to do.
On the machine I plan on hosting one primary domain running Wordpress Multisite.
I created an account on the machine that we will call sample.
When I visit http://555.555.555.5/~sample the page loads.
I setup the proper NS records and got my DNS setup properly so when you visit Sample.com » Free Samples, Free Product Samples, Product Test Marketing it loads the website properly.
Since this is a multiuser Wordpress setup I also setup a *. subdomain in the cPanel at http://sample.com/cpanel
This works great. It allows me to visit whatever.sample.com and get the proper page that I want to see.
This works great for me but I need more. I'm looking to offer users the ability to map domains to blogs in Wordpress. So I've installed domain mapping plugins and they are properly configured.
So I create a CNAME for a second domain. We will call this one sample2.com.
When I visit sample2.com I get a redirect to the URL sample2.com/cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi
When I visit the machine IP http://555.555.555.5 I also get the same URL. Obviously this isn't correct and I want that IP address to also load the proper site.
I've done some reading on VHOST and I know that is the way to go but I'm pretty confused.
Was my mistake in creating a cPanel account?
What are your thoughts as I'm pretty confused at the moment.
The desired behavior is that http://555.555.555.5 will go to the account named sample. I believe once that is corrected everything else will fall in place.