Hello,

I have searched endlessly for an answer to this, but it's just too complicated for me. Hope someone here can help me out, would be much appreciated!

I have a VPN running multiple Virtual Servers and have acces to this via Webmin. For a new website, I created a new Virtual Server and did it according to the Webmin guide. I haven't decided on a WWW name yet, so entered a temporary fake name. Now, when I point to the IP adress /directory that I have my index.html it show a site we're no longer running. I'm guessing that without a working DNS redirect the server points to a standard Virtual Server with the old site. The helpdesk of my provider says they're too busy to help me and that this is not standard configuration, so I should google on how to change this...

Anyone have a clue on what I should do?
Much appreciated!

Is your VPS server running linux based OS?
You need to install BIND9 and create zone files.
There is also webmin bind9 module which will help you a lot if you dont want to mess with editing files.

type in the console:

yum install -y bind bind-chroot bind-utils bind-libs caching-nameserver

or apt-get instead of yum, depending on your OS.
After the installation start the service with:

sudo /etc/init.d/named start

Hit refresh modules in webmin and you'll find it under Servers section.

Then read this:

http://rimuhosting.com/support/bindviawebmin.jsp

Thanks for your reply miki86,

I will try this out and hope it works.
My server runs on CentOS Linux 5.3. I have a BIND DNS Server module under "Servers" and it says "The primary configuration file for BIND /etc/named.conf does not exist, or is not valid. Create it?"

I'm gonna google and learn all about this before I do anything, as I don't want to mess up anything.

Thanks.

No problem, i had same problem as you.

If you allready have it installed then just read the tutorial i gave you, and remember to restart the service after every change.

Just a small question: If I mess around with this, is there no risk of bringing other sites down on the server?

OK! I've set it up.
Only... how to navigate to the site now? The URL doesn't work.
I think I've done something wrong somewhere...

I couldn't set up the CNAME. Maybe that's it?

Thanks for your help!

You cant have any errors, go back and set it again.
Apply changes, stop bind server, start bind server.
And use pingability.

Hey man,

Thanks for your help so far. I've set it up again, stopped and started BIND but it doesn't work.

Maybe it's because I type in the wrong adress. This domain isn't registered anywhere, it's just for testing and setting up a site. Should I type in the domain in the browser: "www.mytestdomain.com" or should I type in something else?

If it isn't registered then you can't access your server using that domain.

If you are testing only i suggest you use ip address to access your web site, leave DNS for later.

Well, the problem with that is that it points to the wrong virtual server/website (that was the whole point of this post).
I have multiple Virtual Servers running, and if I type in the IP adress of the server, it shows me an old site. I think it redirects all requests of the IP to this website. How do I acces 1 Virtual Server in particular?

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/vhosts/

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/vhosts/examples.html

http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Apache/Co...sts-in-Apache/

Really late, but problem solved. I now use subdomains of registered domains with rules in .htaccess that prohibit access from all but my IP. Thus creating an awesome testing server.
Thanks for all your help!!