On Tue, 2013-10-15 at 16:52 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Jesse Molina wrote: > > > > Sounds like your Apache config may not be correct. You should post > > the relavant portion. > > > > You need to elaborate on "It opens the startup page but will do > > nothing else.". What is a startup page? Nobody but you knows what > > this means. > > > > > > On 10/15/13 11:50 AM, 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. > >> 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. > >> > >> > > A critical clarifying question: is your site set up for virtual hosting > (same IP address, multiple site names) or for absolute addressing? > That's a fairly typical place for things to get messed up on hosted systems. I have at the suggestion of another added the vhost alias apache module. The site is a simple absolutely addressed site, It does not & I have no plans to host any other sites on this VPS server.
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