WinXP SP2.
DSL Connection.


I recently bought my own server for my website, and it was working fine (awesome, even) for 2 days, until I noticed a problem. A big problem. I can't access any of my own subdomains.

I IMed several people and asked them if they could access it, and they could. They saw no problems. I tried on a proxy and the problem disappeared. What the ****?

So far this is what I've gathered:

1) I am the only one (that I know of) person who can't access any of my subdomains (MY OWN *******ED SUBDOMAINS).
2) Using a proxy helps, in that I can access my own subdomains just fine, but then I can't access my own domain?!
3) No one but me seems to be having this problem.

I thought I'd turn to you, the geeky tech, to help me figure out what in the world is going on.

One night I left my computer uploading a few gigs worth of stuff to the server, and when I woke up the next morning I couldn't access the subdomains.

I tried everything, going so far as to reformat my computer, and deleting and bringing back the domain on the server. Still nothing. I flushed my DNS several thousand times. NOTHING.

Any help?

The subdomain in question: http://forums.ehacked.com

you sure the DNS info is correct?

C:\>ping forums.ehacked.com
Ping request could not find host forums.ehacked.com. Please check the name and t
ry again.
C:\>ping ehacked.com

Pinging ehacked.com [64.92.160.213] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 64.92.160.213: bytes=32 time=274ms TTL=47
Reply from 64.92.160.213: bytes=32 time=275ms TTL=47


hmm.


C:\>nslookup
Default Server: hcstlh01.hcs.net
Address: 204.194.36.2

> set type=any
> ehacked.com
Server: hcstlh01.hcs.net
Address: 204.194.36.2

Non-authoritative answer:
ehacked.com internet address = 64.92.160.213
ehacked.com nameserver = ns2.ehacked.com
ehacked.com nameserver = ns1.ehacked.com

ehacked.com nameserver = ns2.ehacked.com
ehacked.com nameserver = ns1.ehacked.com
> forums.ehacked.com
Server: hcstlh01.hcs.net
Address: 204.194.36.2

*** hcstlh01.hcs.net can't find forums.ehacked.com: Non-existent domain
> server ns2.ehacked.com
Default Server: ns2.ehacked.com
Address: 64.92.160.214
> ls -d ehacked.com
[ns2.ehacked.com]
ehacked.com. SOA ns1.ehacked.com cyber.ehacked.com. (20040
92509 3600 120 1209600 86400)
ehacked.com. MX 0 ehacked.com
ehacked.com. NS ns1.ehacked.com
ehacked.com. NS ns2.ehacked.com
ehacked.com. A 64.92.160.213
ftp CNAME ehacked.com
localhost A 127.0.0.1
mail CNAME ehacked.com
ns1 A 64.92.160.213
ns2 A 64.92.160.214
server1 A 64.92.160.210
www CNAME ehacked.com
ehacked.com. SOA ns1.ehacked.com cyber.ehacked.com. (20040
92509 3600 120 1209600 86400)
>


seems you don't have the subdomain configured in the zone file.

I noticed that. I was playing around with DNS zones last night, hoping that was it. Well, I got my www.ehacked.com to respond to me (it wasn't before!), but now it's not pointing at my site's folder.

So I got mad and deleted the account and created it again. Hopefully WHM can do it all automatically much better than I can.

Update (Full story):

I bought the new server and my host set it up to use his nameservers.

Fine. The website worked fine and all. I got my own private nameservers and tried switching over to them in the 'Edit Setup' screen. Wouldn't take the new ones, because I couldn't let go of the old ones.

So I read a few tutorials here and did it all manually in SSH.

There was a problem where I couldn't access any subdomains (www and user-created ones). I messed around with it a bit and edited some DNS Zone files.

Now the cPanel "There is no website configured at this address." page is showing up, as if the server wasn't pointing the domain to the directory where the website is.

Any ideas on what I can do?

I went ahead and completely erased all DNS Zone files, and the account where the domain was (it's a fresh server, nothing but that account on there). Then I recreated the whole account. Everything looks fine in 'Edit Setup' now, but it's still showng that default cPanel page. I guess I'm waiting now for DNS to update or something.

Any ideas on what I've done wrong here?

You are now getting into apache virtual hosts.

I suggest you read up on how everything is actually done instead of relying on CPanel. There are so many troubleshooting steps at this point that I don't have the time to go thru it all. Read several tutorials on setting up virtual hosts and dns zones. It will be time well spent.