Hiya guys, my network recently bought me a server from Rack Shack, P3 1Ghz, 40 GB HD and 512 MB RAM with Ensim and gave it to me to Self Manage. Basically, I am screwed lol.

I have to transfer my site over, and all login information was recently given to me. I have access to the Ensim Applicance and need some direection / indication on what to do next. I have changed my DNS to n1.rackshack.net and ns2.rackshack.net (will receive personal IP's soon).

Can anybody with any experience give me an indication of what to do next so I can properly research how to do what I'm told?

I know this is a huuuuuuuuuuge thing to ask but I want to learn how to work this =]

Thanks for anyone who can help.

You might want to start with this:

http://forums.rackshack.net/showthread.php?threadid=10757

Thanks for the link. I tried it but all the pages display this

"owned, phuked, h4xed, illegalized by Pherk and Ado...
greetz to !unfz

this hosting company isnt secure after all :D"

Basically, I have my site hosted on a server at the moment. The networks purchased for me a single server to use to host the site. I want to transfer my site to that server but before I can do that, I'll need to make ready the new server which I'm not sure how to do.

Currently, I'm running ensim and I've added my site domain to the admin appliance. However, because the DNS hasn't propogated for the domain, I'm accessing the website via the server i.p (The site was added much like a client would be added. I'm only using this server to host the one site)

However, I cannot seem to log into the FTP. I created the username ppt but the ip page shows up as http://myip/~admin1

First question is, 1) Shouldn't it be http://myip/~ppt (instead of admin1?)

Second question is, once i log into the FTP using admin1 as the username rather than ppt, I only see four folders which are bin, etc, lib and pub. I cannot find the www/ folder anywhere so I can upload site files.

Third question is, I can't upload full stop in FTP because it says permission denied. I know this is an onslaught of questions but any help would be greatly appreciated :)

Try that link again later, Rackshack Forums are having a little problem as you can tell by that error you got


:(

start for service mysql failed.
Action start for MySQL Database / phpMyAdmin failed with error.
Failed to start service: mysql. The following error occured: [blank]

Mayhaps the mysql not installed? I checked in FTP, /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock does not exist.

if your using RS's dns then you also need to add your domin to their dns using a Trouble ticket

http://yourIP/~admin1 is the proper way to preview a domain or you can use http://yourIP/yourdomain.com (if your ensim server has the patch that fixed this problem , version 3.1.10 i think)

ftp login, and email login with ensim is

username@yourdomain.com

When RS forums get back online, visit the link posted above and in my signature... it is the "Ensim Server Checklist" lots of good howto's

try to start it through ssh,

service mysqld restart

(or killall -9 mysqld then service mysqld start)

yep tried restarting it through SSH (putty). It says Mysql stopped [OK] then it just leaves it there.

My host says php is already installed but I can't find the option to enable it anywhere. I'm also trying to start MYSQL from appliance administrator but it won't load after I click on "start mysql" icon. I've attempted to restart it via SSH like fas-track advised but even that doesn't work. Strannnge straannnnnnge

go back to RS forum, they will have a thread about check list for new Ensim sever (basic set up etc..)

PHP if installed is installed. There's no need to so called "enable" it. Once you put a file with a .php extension in a world viewable directory, Apache will serve it, parsing it through the php engine in the meantime.

Yep, php is active on the server - parses things perfectly.

I (administering the same server as huynhk) got mysqld to run... but with one problem:
bash>mysql
mysql: Error while loading shared libraries: libmysqlclient.so.10: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Any ideas on this error? I think I accidentially removed the file along with the previous mess...

Being SO big. They certainly have a lot of problems.

Oh yea; I forgot to add that forum.rackshack.net is a good place to ask questions of the moderators...

Please ignore my comment - got a mysql-shared redistribution package, so it all now works perfectly.

It appears Mysql was missing a library file or something or other. The host had RackShack reinstall mysql on the server. (or so I'm led to believe)

Is it possible to add subdomains on ensim 3.1? I've searched for it all over the place, and checked out http://www.rackshack.net/english/support/flashtutorials/tutorials/ensim_31.asp but can't seem to find the option annnywhere.

There are numerious hacks and mods that can be applied to apache/ensim that would enable this. See for example http://ensim.webscorpion.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=11