Hello everyone- first post here.
A little background on the project I'm working on:
I've been put in charge to set up a small data center (2 42u cabinets) at our office to handle our in-house email delivery system. I have a little experience setting this up but never on this scale. We have a remote server in another data center which hosts our domain domain.com and uses the Nameservers at this location.
I recently racked up a freshly installed a CentOS 6.5 server and set up WHM/cPanel. I set the server IP to 40.138.xx.xx with the hostname of bennet1.domain.com
In the zone file for domain.com, I added an A record to point to bennet.domain.com to resolve to this new server's IP address 40.138.xx.xx
So far so good. ping bennet.domain.com gives me correct IP.
Here's where I'm stuck:
I created an account in WHM with the domain "bennet.domain.com" and set it to use the main shared IP 40.138.xx.xx.
Our developer was able to access the account temporarily through 40.138.xx.xx:2083 and add some files.
I think I am having some DNS issues however. Now I go to bennet.domain.com The address bar changes to 40.138.xx.xx/admin/index.php, which is in the directory for the user but won't find any files. Also, if I just try to go to 40.138.xx.xx, I am directed to /http://40.138.xx.xx/cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi
What I need it to go to is bennet.domain.com/admin/index.php
Any ideas?
I hope I gave enough details for some advice on what could be the issue here. Any feedback is appreciated.
Thanks
To add to my original post a little:
An basic example of what I'm trying to do is set up a test server, only at a different locations, and I think the DNS is confusing me. Do I need to configure a DNS through WHM if the only account is a subdomain of our main domain on a different server using different DNS?
Something is misconfigured somewhere and I've literally spent all day trying to figure this out, so anyone who can, please help me sleep easy tonight.
A little background on the project I'm working on:
I've been put in charge to set up a small data center (2 42u cabinets) at our office to handle our in-house email delivery system. I have a little experience setting this up but never on this scale. We have a remote server in another data center which hosts our domain domain.com and uses the Nameservers at this location.
I recently racked up a freshly installed a CentOS 6.5 server and set up WHM/cPanel. I set the server IP to 40.138.xx.xx with the hostname of bennet1.domain.com
In the zone file for domain.com, I added an A record to point to bennet.domain.com to resolve to this new server's IP address 40.138.xx.xx
So far so good. ping bennet.domain.com gives me correct IP.
Here's where I'm stuck:
I created an account in WHM with the domain "bennet.domain.com" and set it to use the main shared IP 40.138.xx.xx.
Our developer was able to access the account temporarily through 40.138.xx.xx:2083 and add some files.
I think I am having some DNS issues however. Now I go to bennet.domain.com The address bar changes to 40.138.xx.xx/admin/index.php, which is in the directory for the user but won't find any files. Also, if I just try to go to 40.138.xx.xx, I am directed to /http://40.138.xx.xx/cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi
What I need it to go to is bennet.domain.com/admin/index.php
Any ideas?
I hope I gave enough details for some advice on what could be the issue here. Any feedback is appreciated.
Thanks
To add to my original post a little:
An basic example of what I'm trying to do is set up a test server, only at a different locations, and I think the DNS is confusing me. Do I need to configure a DNS through WHM if the only account is a subdomain of our main domain on a different server using different DNS?
Something is misconfigured somewhere and I've literally spent all day trying to figure this out, so anyone who can, please help me sleep easy tonight.
