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[marcus1060]

I have a VPS with Webmin, and I'm having a heck of a time trying to add domain names.
I pointed the domain name to name servers more then 24 hours ago, so I don't think that's the issue.
But I haven't been successful adding the domain, even through Virtualmin and BIND.
Can anyone help me? I haven't been able to find proper documentation for this anywhere.

[ZoomCities]

Do a research about VirtualHost & httpd.conf and you will be fine.

Zac

[marcus1060]

I have.
I would need something like this right?

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/site
ServerName www.example.net
</VirtualHost>

Well, that doesn't work.

[ZoomCities]

Originally Posted by marcus1060

I have.
I would need something like this right?

Well, that doesn't work.

Did you restart Apache after you've done that?

Zac

[marcus1060]

Yes, I restart Apache after making changes to httpd.conf.

[ZoomCities]

Originally Posted by marcus1060

Yes, I restart Apache after making changes to httpd.conf.

Feel free to PM me or post here your httpd.conf (VH bit) so we can troubleshoot it.

Zac

[tsj5j]

You do need to read up abit more, don't jump into server administration without good knowledge of how it works, or you'll meet more problems otherwise.

[marcus1060]

I don't think the problem is in my httpd.conf
I think it's BIND not taking the domain name properly.
Because the domain has been pointing at the domain now 48 hours or so, I think the system it not seeing the domain.

I have tried reading into things, and I have tried what I've found, but none of it works.

[Kevin]

http://www.dnsreport.com is your friend, this is one of the first things I usually check with, you can make sure the domain is pointing to your nameservers correctly, and that your nameservers are responding correctly... you can scroll down to where its showing the WWW record, and make sure that IP is the same your apache is listening on.

If everything looks good at dnsreport, then you know its not a DNS issue and can investigate apache/httpd.conf


Once you have ruled out/resolved any DNS issues, you can move on and figure out whats happening with apache.

[marcus1060]

http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsre...entervideo.net

I get errors under: Lame nameservers, Missing nameservers 2, and SOA Record
And some more warnings.

What should I do?

[tsj5j]

ERROR: You have one or more lame nameservers. These are nameservers that do NOT answer authoritatively for your domain. This is bad; for example, these nameservers may never get updated. The following nameservers are lame:
66.90.121.2
66.90.121.3

Bind is configured to be a secondary or backup nameserver, meaning it pulls records off the master server.
Since there is no master server to pull from, no records exist.

You must either :

a.) Configure Bind to answer authoratively
b.) Setup a master server with your managed dns or something.

Google to find out how to do either.

*EDIT*

You apparently are using Leeware's VPS services.
You are not supposed to use ns1.leeware.com and ns2.leeware.
Those 2 nameservers will NOT contain records for your domain.

Instead, create nameserver records for your domain (ns1.entervideo.net pointing to your VPS IP).
Then, start Bind on your VPS. Make sure a zone exists for your domain.