Hi I'll have a bite on this one...
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 01:50:46PM -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > I have a web site established on a remote hosted VPS server system. > I have full root access. > I use Debian linux on my personal system (wheezy) & on the remotely > hosted site (squeeze). > I use Godaddy as my domain registrar. > I have the domain for the remotely hosted VPS site set up at Godaddy. > I have the exact IP address set up there to forward to the VPS site with > masking. > I have a tarball based mediawiki set up on the VPS site in /var/www/ > There are no links in /var/www/ to the site, the opening page is > index.php & is in this directory. > I simply use the "/sites-enabled/default" in apache2 to send web queries > to the VPS site. > > Up to here all seems to work OK. > Here is the issue. > When I try to access the mediawiki for configuration, using > http://my.mediawiki.net (example) the site will not work as it should. > It opens the startup page but will do nothing else. Odd. I assume you mean the startup page for mediawiki? (as opposed to the default apache "It's working!" page) > When I access the site with http:// 123.123.123.123 (example numerical > IP address) the VPS site allows the mediawiki to run the configuration & > setup as it should. Sounds good. Is the DNS for my.mediawiki.net (example name) actually pointing to 123.123.123.123 (example IP) ? > > This is my first attempt to manage a remote site so I really need > advice. > Any Tips are appreciated & BTW I did ask these questions on the > Mediawiki site, but alas no help there. > john -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131015185622.GD20937@hawking
