Ubuntu nameserver

Supercell

I've setup a site in apache2 that works just fine over the lan , but over the internet is another matter.

Am struggling with nameservers.

I just want www.mysite.net to point to my ip and let apache2 do the rest, but really am struggling with nameservers.

The site is hosted with Apache/2.0.54 (Ubuntu) PHP/4.4.0-3ubuntu1 Server at 192.168.0.3 Port 80 ..ie current ubuntu with php etc

How the heck do i set up a nameserver ?

mp3guy

I recommend trying the ubuntu forums, or the #ubuntu channel on freenode (run xchat)

niallb

Where do you want the site to be visible from?

192.168.0.3 is a private address only, and you can't
route it across the internet without using a vpn or similar.

To install a nameserver on ubuntu, run
sudo apt-get install bind9

If you're not familiar with the file formats,
installing webmin will give you a
good frontend for setting up dns entries.

What exactly are you trying to achieve?

Happy Christmas,
NiallB

tomk

Do you actually need a name server? I reckon all you need to do is get your domain name if you haven't already done so, and then register with one of the many dynamic dns services. I use zoneedit myself. They'll take care of dns for you, Then you just forward port 80 on your router to that internal address, and you're all set.

Supercell

niallb wrote:

Where do you want the site to be visible from?

192.168.0.3 is a private address only, and you can't
route it across the internet without using a vpn or similar.

To install a nameserver on ubuntu, run
sudo apt-get install bind9

If you're not familiar with the file formats,
installing webmin will give you a
good frontend for setting up dns entries.

What exactly are you trying to achieve?

Happy Christmas,
NiallB

Thanks Niall, I did that but still no joy

I've set the router to forward on traffic to the ubuntu box, the site is visable etc, but for example when I install Gallery 2 ( http://gallery.menalto.com/ ) or any other packages that require users to receive an email to complete registration , the link always starts http://192.168.0.3 ... which is very frustrating.

I cant help feeling that the virtual hosting in apache2 isnt working properly.

Maybe somehere can have a look at below and see whats wrong ?
Nb - if i put www.example.com where the * are below apache hangs when i tell it to restart.

NameVirtualHost *
<VirtualHost *>
	ServerAdmin example@example.com
	ServerName www.example.com
	ServerAlias example.com *.example.com
	DocumentRoot /var/www/example
	<Directory />
		Options FollowSymLinks
		AllowOverride None
	</Directory>
	<Directory /var/www/example/>
		Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
		AllowOverride None
		Order allow,deny
		allow from all
		# This directive allows us to have apache2's default start page
                # in /apache2-default/, but still have / go to the right place
                # Commented out for Ubuntu
                #RedirectMatch ^/$ /apache2-default/
	</Directory>

	ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
	<Directory "/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
	ServerSignature On

    Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
    <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
        Options MultiViews FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
        Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

niallb

Nb - if i put www.example.com where the * are below apache hangs when i tell it to restart.

Your ubuntu server needs to be able to resolve the web address to itself.
Try adding an entry in /etc/hosts for the website name:

192.168.0.3 www.example.com

and restart apache.

Take a look for the "Listen" directive, probably in ports.conf
and see if it has your IP address listed there.
Probably better if it doesn't.

When you installed Gallery, did you give it example.com[/b] as its base address, or
did you give it the IP address?
It's the application that is generating the URL,
and it needs to know that the sitename should be
www.example.com or whatever. Check its settings file.

NiallB

Supercell

Huge thanks Niall, put it into the hosts file and all works grand.
Can I put multiple sites into there all resolving to the same IP or will this mess things up ?

niallb

Yes you can.
Apache will take care of serving the right files
based on the name used.

NiallB