Posted by entrigan on July 19, 2010 at 6:59am
Hi everyone,
I am very excited about aegir, but very fresh to LAMP etc. I have a fresh Ubuntu 10.04 downgraded to PHP 5.2 and installed Aegir Alpha8 cleanly (on linode) (thanks to the excellent install.txt and mig5's screencast).
Now that this is done, I am not sure how to set up my DNS or virtualhosts to point to the aegir site. I added an A entry in the DNS manager for aegir.mydomain.com, however going to aegir.mydomain.com points to the same location as mydomain.com.
Forgive my ignorance: Do I need wildcard DNS? Do I need a separate entry in /etc/apache2/sites-available?
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Some Progress: I created a
Some Progress:
I created a vhost entry at /etc/apache2/sites-available and then ran a2ensite aegir.mydomain.com
Doing so fixed the problem, but I am still a little confused.
Now this is my continuation question: If I set up wildcard dns, how do I make a vhost entry that will route the domain request to different aegir managed sites?
What version of Aegir did you
What version of Aegir did you install?
I think something has already gone wrong if you had to manually create a vhost for the main aegir site, as this is not required in 0.4 releases of aegir. Did your install process include runnig the install.sh script?
Re: your second question, Aegir manages all apache configs for the sites it manages. So you don't need to manually create any - when you add a site in aegir, the install process will create the vhost and restart apache automatically.
I installed .4-Alpha8. So I
I installed .4-Alpha8. So I was following your video and I ran install.sh, and everything looked good, including a file /var/aegir/hostmaster-0.4-alpha8/aegir.brainowl.com_80
The contents of aegir.brainowl.com_80 contain everything that I think belongs (virtual host tag, SetEnv entries ServerName entry etc.)
However when I go to /etc/apache2/sites-enabled there is no aegir.brainowl.com_80 link, nor is it available in /etc/apache2/sites-available (so a2ensite does not work).
Should I try again from scratch?
So like you said something
So like you said something was wrong, while the site worked at first I eventually started getting an error:
Which is probably the same issue as posted over here
Update: So I believe the
So I believe the problem is with my DNS configuration (makes sense since this is the only thing not covered in the Aegir INSTALL.txt).
I added a wildcard A/AAAA entry in my DNS configuration for my domain. After waiting for the information to propogate, now everything resolves to the aegir install. That includes my IP, mydomain.com, and *.mydomain.com.
Will have to read up on DNS and then report back :)
Update: Ok so obviously I do not know what I am doing (yet), but I changed my DNS A entry from * to *.mydomain.com and now the sites I have in sites-enabled are resolving correctly again. Entering my IP directly is still going to aegir, but I guess that is not so bad.
IN Linode * does work
IN Linode * does work