/public_html/ Not working properly, WWW 404

[SupermanInNY]

Hi all,

I have several problems, some are just my lack of knowledge and some are weired.

Lets start:

1. I have a user who requested to have SSL installed.
2. I installed the SSL,. and then I remembered he probably
need his own dedicated IP address.
3. I changed his IP Address and re-installed the certificate.
4. I didn't do a check on the process, but the user called me
several hours later to let me know that his site is not
pulling up at all now.
5. Panic frenzy started...
6. Forget the SSL... just get his site working...
7. Change Site's IP address back to the shared IP.
8. vi httpd.conf and removed all new IP address related
entries.
9. service httpd restart.
10. All other websites in the meantime are working fine.

I get weired on/off working, not working results!

Check the first example,.. while I was litterally writing this msg, I get Working at the begining and half and hour later,. not working (look at the first 2 entries and the last two entries).


Using Mozilla and using IE6 I am able to go to:

http://www.domain.com/somedirectory/ Works!
http://domain.com/ Doesn't Work!
By "doesn't work" I mean the following:

The /usr/local/apache/log/error_log doesn't show any erros:

When looking into the domlogs of the domain:

If I use lynx http://domain.com I get a blank page on lynx but the domlogs show:

64.62.128.4 - - [24/Apr/2004:15:15:19 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 85 "-" "Lynx/2.8.4dev.7 libwww-FM/2.14"

If I use lynx http://www.domain.com I get a blank page on lynx but the domlogs show:

64.62.128.4 - - [24/Apr/2004:15:16:49 +0300] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 85 "-" "Lynx/2.8.4dev.7 libwww-FM/2.14"

If I use Mozilla http://domain.com

I get:

"There is no website configured at this address." and this is the basically the greenish cPanel index page.


I do not get domlogs, but instead I get /usr/local/apache/logs/error_log entries:



[Sat Apr 24 15:18:47 2004] [error] [client 82.166.240.58] client denied by server configuration: /usr/local/cpanel/sys_cpanel/css/style.cssx
[Sat Apr 24 15:18:47 2004] [error] [client 82.166.240.58] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/403.shtml
[Sat Apr 24 15:18:47 2004] [error] [client 82.166.240.58] client denied by server configuration: /usr/local/cpanel/sys_cpanel/images/index_01.gif
[Sat Apr 24 15:18:47 2004] [error] [client 82.166.240.58] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/403.shtml
[Sat Apr 24 15:18:47 2004] [error] [client 82.166.240.58] client denied by server configuration: /usr/local/cpanel/sys_cpanel/images/index_04.gif
[Sat Apr 24 15:18:47 2004] [error] [client 82.166.240.58] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/403.shtml
[Sat Apr 24 15:18:47 2004] [error] [client 82.166.240.58] client denied by server configuration: /usr/local/cpanel/sys_cpanel/images/index_02.gif
[Sat Apr 24 15:18:47 2004] [error] [client 82.166.240.58] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/403.shtml
[Sat Apr 24 15:18:47 2004] [error] [client 82.166.240.58] client denied by server configuration: /usr/local/cpanel/sys_cpanel/images/index_03.gif
[Sat Apr 24 15:18:47 2004] [error] [client 82.166.240.58] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/403.shtml
[Sat Apr 24 15:18:47 2004] [error] [client 82.166.240.58] client denied by server configuration: /usr/local/cpanel/sys_cpanel/images/bbg.gif
[Sat Apr 24 15:18:47 2004] [error] [client 82.166.240.58] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/403.shtml
[Sat Apr 24 15:18:47 2004] [error] [client 82.166.240.58] client denied by server configuration: /usr/local/cpanel/sys_cpanel/images/bottom_label.gif
[Sat Apr 24 15:18:47 2004] [error] [client 82.166.240.58] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/403.shtml


If I use Mozilla http://domain.com/homepage (homepage is a valid subdirectory on the site).
I do not get domlogs, but instead I get /usr/local/apache/logs/error_log entries:


[Sat Apr 24 15:23:33 2004] [error] [client 82.166.240.58] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/homepage
[Sat Apr 24 15:23:33 2004] [error] [client 82.166.240.58] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/404.shtml


If I use Mozilla http://www.domain.com/


I do not get domlogs, but instead I get /usr/local/apache/logs/error_log entries:


[Sat Apr 24 15:26:07 2004] [error] [client 82.166.240.58] client denied by server configuration: /usr/local/cpanel/sys_cpanel/css/style.cssx
[Sat Apr 24 15:26:07 2004] [error] [client 82.166.240.58] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/403.shtml
[Sat Apr 24 15:26:08 2004] [error] [client 82.166.240.58] client denied by server configuration: /usr/local/cpanel/sys_cpanel/images/index_01.gif
[Sat Apr 24 15:26:08 2004] [error] [client 82.166.240.58] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/403.shtml
[Sat Apr 24 15:26:08 2004] [error] [client 82.166.240.58] client denied by server configuration: /usr/local/cpanel/sys_cpanel/images/index_02.gif
[Sat Apr 24 15:26:08 2004] [error] [client 82.166.240.58] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/403.shtml
[Sat Apr 24 15:26:08 2004] [error] [client 82.166.240.58] client denied by server configuration: /usr/local/cpanel/sys_cpanel/images/index_04.gif
[Sat Apr 24 15:26:08 2004] [error] [client 82.166.240.58] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/403.shtml
[Sat Apr 24 15:26:08 2004] [error] [client 82.166.240.58] client denied by server configuration: /usr/local/cpanel/sys_cpanel/images/index_03.gif
[Sat Apr 24 15:26:08 2004] [error] [client 82.166.240.58] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/403.shtml
[Sat Apr 24 15:26:08 2004] [error] [client 82.166.240.58] client denied by server configuration: /usr/local/cpanel/sys_cpanel/images/bbg.gif
[Sat Apr 24 15:26:08 2004] [error] [client 82.166.240.58] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/403.shtml
[Sat Apr 24 15:26:08 2004] [error] [client 82.166.240.58] client denied by server configuration: /usr/local/cpanel/sys_cpanel/images/bottom_label.gif
[Sat Apr 24 15:26:08 2004] [error] [client 82.166.240.58] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/403.shtml


If I use Mozilla http://www.domain.com/homepage
I do not get domlogs, but instead I get /usr/local/apache/logs/error_log entries:

[Sat Apr 24 15:27:54 2004] [error] [client 82.166.240.58] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/homepage
[Sat Apr 24 15:27:54 2004] [error] [client 82.166.240.58] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/404.shtml

If I use lynx http://www.domain.com/homepage/index.php

It pulls up fine!

If I use Mozilla http://www.domain.com/homepage/index.php
It pulls up sometime OK,.. and sometime produces 404.

If I use IE6 http://www.domain.com/homepage/index.php
I get:

[Sat Apr 24 15:38:10 2004] [error] [client 82.166.240.58] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/homepage/index.php
[Sat Apr 24 15:38:10 2004] [error] [client 82.166.240.58] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/404.shtml


httpd.conf entry:


<VirtualHost 123.567.12.123>
ServerAlias domain.com www.domain.com
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot /home/domainco/public_html
BytesLog domlogs/domain.com-bytes_log
ServerName www.domain.com
User domainco
Group domainco
CustomLog domlogs/domain.com combined
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/domainco/public_html/cgi-bin/
</VirtualHost>



I am very confused here!

Thanks,

-Alon.

 

[bamasbest]

Hmm...

After you edited httpd.conf to return to the original IP and config, did you also edit the domains zone to revert it back to the old IP?

 

[SupermanInNY]

Yes, the DNS Zones were changed back to the original IP address.

That I've checked as the first thing to see maybe I didn't change it.. but it was changed.

Now.. after an hour and a half or so,.. everything works just fine on it's own!!!
Past the changes I've mentioned in my previous post,.. I've done nothing (except getting a chicken ceaser salad at McDonald's.. you think that help?? :D )

Or at least I hope it does.

My only guess is that either there was some kind of caching somewhere either on my own machine (but I was also lynxing from 3 different server spread from California to Texas) and now it all seems to work fine.

Any chance for a 'caching' or something on the ISP or the server itself??

I just hope this will not change on its own in few hours!

-Alon.

 

[bamasbest]

A simle propogation issue.

Whenever I change a site's IP, create subdomains, etc... I usually count on anywhere from 10 minutes to 4 or so hours before everything is peachy

 

[SupermanInNY]

Going back to basic steps:

I want to give the client the SSL working.

Do I need to provide each SSL client with it's own dedicated IP address?

Do I need to do anything special other than change the IP address in the control panel?

This is where I get semi-confused with the DNS entries and I hope you can assist me with this as well.

My DNS server is on my own server,.. so actually my

ns1.myserver.com --> 123.123.123.123
ns2.myserver.com --> 123.123.123.123

They are BOTH pointing to the SAME IP ADDRESS.

Since the resolution is done on my own single box,. it doesn't matter if I have 'different' IP address for ns1 and ns2. If ns1 is not pulling up.. well.. ns2 is the same box and same responding server,..so obviously it can't do ns2 as well.

Going forward:

1. Change the client IP Address.
2. Now what do I do?
Does this need to propagate through anywhere around the world?
I've tried to do this before and it gave me the same symptoms that made me start this thread.

Learing aspect here:

From the pool of IP addresses that I have (heck.. I only have 2 from my hosting facility.. the 3rd and 4th.. already going to cost me some change),. How does it work??

ns1.domain.com --->> IP 1 (I'll use just a single digit to abvreviate).

ns2.domain.com --->> IP 1 (again..same server...same info).



Primary IP of the server with everybody sharing the same IP address: ---> IP 1


I have a free IP and a customer that wants it.

Just change IP for the specific client and set it to --->> IP 2 ??

Will the DNS server (on my own box) know to resolve the calls to the client's domain to the IP 2?
Do I need to do anythign??
Do I need to create new DNS Zones?
Do I need to create an entry in GoDaddy? ns3.domain.com???

Thanks for your input on this.. as I said... at the begining of the post: Some stuff is weired.. and some stuff,.. I just don't have the knowledge.

I appreciate your help on this (again).

-Alon.

 

[Website Rob]

Whenever an account has an IP change there is, up to 6 hrs. of propagation. Normally the account will show the Apache Test page. The 'no account setup at this IP' page will show instead, if using the DarkOrb index page.

If an account is using a Shared IP and wants to use an SSL Cert, first change the IP to a Dedicated, wait for propagation to complete and then setup the Cert.

Do what it takes to get more IP addresses as you will very quickly find yourself running into problems. Having only 2 IPs for a Server is not the way to go. Ask for 16 or 32 more as they do not have to be justified and, except for DC cost of the IPs, will give you more IP breathing room.

 

[SupermanInNY]

Thanks for the reply, but kindly walk me through the process:

Whenever an account has an IP change there is, up to 6 hrs. of propagation. Normally the account will show the Apache Test page. The 'no account setup at this IP' page will show instead, if using the DarkOrb index page.

I don't understand something:

The change of the IP is on MY box. Who is propagating the info?
How?
That's the mistery for me.
I made the change on cPanel, but the resolution is done on my box (same place),so why would a propagation take that long?
I'm not sending any info to anyone.. am I? cPanel does?
If I'm not changing anything in the DNS at GoDaddy,. the domain still resolves to my ns1.domain.com then runs over to my DNS server on my box and finally gets resolved to it's last destination with IP 2.
So,.. I'm confused to how or why it would take as long as 6 hours for the internal change to happen.

-Alon.

 

[Website Rob]

It takes time for the Internet to update the changes. The fact that it is an internal change is why it doesn't take as long as a change with a Registrar.

Remember, IP addresses are what is actually used -- Domain names are only an easy reference for us Humans -- so changing an IP address requires updating to be done.

Go with the flow, grasshopper.

 

[rpmws]

I didn't have time to read this entire thread so you guys just ignore me if what I suggest makes no sense. I think I read he was having problems with SSL 404 page on a domain that does resolve correctly? I have seen this before on new certs. Try commenting out the line in httpd.conf ssl for his virtual host that points to the cabundle. Restart apache and try the https again.

sorry guys ..ignoe my post above. I read it too fast. Yes it does apear to be a simply propagation issue