I wanted to host a couple of websites (and apps) on the same VPS, so my idea was to have it like this:
Site 1
- HTML content only
Site 2
- PHP and HTML content
Site 3
- Java / SpringBoot app
Site 4
- Python app
Site 5
- Java / SpringBoot app
So I got the smallest pack on DigitalOcean, and thought I would start with Apache. Note: I configured the OS already, and tested basic functionality (see more info below)
I installed Apache, configured it to work with my domain (an actual one, not from hosts) and it loaded the basic HTML page. Before I did this, I tested my-domain.com:8080 and it showed the Apache Admin page, all fine. Unfortunately, now after adding my first VirtualHost (and deleting the default one), my Admin page is not accessible anymore (getting a timeout). I also used Let's Encrypt to test how SSL works.
The current state of sites-enabled:
000-default: NOT ENABLED, doesn't work even if enabled
my-domain.com: ENABLED, working with SSL, redirects to SSL by default
my-domain2-from-hosts-file.com: ENABLED, not working, redirects to the default domain
Ideally, I'd like to have a different VirtualHost/domain for each WAR deployed, but let's get the admin/manager page working first.
What could I be doing wrong? I can post logs and config if needed.
Turns out firewall was the one to blame. Port 8080 became blocked after I added Let's Encrypt SSL using their script, so... that's weird.
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I have tried all kinds of things, read all answers, and configured the bananas out of it, but I cannot seem to get the following working:
A windows 2016 server with XAMPP, to host more websites than 1.
What have I done:
I have altered the httpd-vhosts.conf as described all over the web with allowing NameVirtualHost, and setting up virtual host with documentroot, servername etc.
I have pointed a domain with the a-record to this server
installed the latest XAMPP release to date
changed the windows hosts file, as described everywhere (127.0.0.1 domainname.com)
What works:
I can get the domain working on my server's browser. When I enter the specific domainname.com it shows the hello world page I made in the specified folder. The domain resolves and shows the page that is in de directory accordingly
Besides that, the localhost of apache is also working, I have 2 sites working, but only on the browser of the server, on the machine itself.
What does not work:
Only 1 thing. when I want to access the domain from any other machine than the server (from outside so to say), it will not work, but when I ping the domain on my home-pc it resolves to the server.
I am at a loss. Been at this for hours, and beginning to question if it is even possible.
Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong here, or if it is even possible to have more than 1 website to work on XAMPP and resolve form the outside?
Thank you in advance.
It was windows firewall that stopped all inbound connections. I finally figured it out!
Bit of a strange one - Over the weekend I updated the version of PHP on one of our servers and all seemed to be working fine, however yesterday, we started to receive complaints that the site was down.
After looking in to it, the site works fine when connecting from the internal network, but it times out when trying to connect from an external IP address.
Server admin isn't really my strong suit, so not really sure where to begin. I've checked the httpd.conf files and all looks fine, the apache config test reutrns 'OK' so at a loss as to where to go next.
Server is running Centos, PHP 7.2 and apache 2.4.6.
How can I get the server to respond to external requests?
Andy
You can use this tools (metod) to check where is propably the problem:
I. on serwer, check :
whether is serwer conections to internet - ping, tracerout
whether page is loading (on local) - lynks, links (text web broweser)
whether your dns is working (or dns ISP prowider) - depending on the service used, e.g. BIND (check usage this tool in internet)
whether your firewall is ok configured and good work - depending on the service used e.g. iptables
whether domen settings is ok,
...
II. on computer, check: (in internet, not in local network with your serwer)
whether the website loads in the browser eg firefox after using ip address (your server where the page is located) in www bar
whether host in internet have a contact with your serwer - ping, tracerout
whether the website loads in the browser eg firefox after using ip address (your server where the page is located) in www bar
...
The problem is wery complicadet becouse I dont now what exactly you have an infrastructure and it is settings (network, ISP, etc.) which you on host the page you are writing about. For this reason, it is difficult for you to precisely help.
I have a website that I am trying to convert to a docker-compose solution.
Part of the website is a CMS (WordPress, specifically), and there are also a few Java web applications that are currently handled by tomcat.
The current approach is that I have an official WordPress container and an official Tomcat container. I load my custom content in the WordPress (via a MySQL container which is not really a part of this question) and the WAR files into tomcat.
So the problem is this:
Parts of the WordPress website have links to Java applications. Previously, some of these links were relative links as simple as /Application1 and the user would be able to access the Java application.
Now, since they are hosted in separate containers, I cannot do this because there is nothing named "Application1" in the WordPress container. I have modified the htaccess file for the WordPress container with a RewriteRules like this:
# Tomcat exposes port 8085
RewriteRule ^.*Application1/(.*)$ http://localhost:8085/Application1/$1 [R,L]
But this means that if the user clicks the link for Application1 in wordpress, their browser will then redirect them to localhost:8085 - which works fine if you run this set of containers locally, but does not work for remote users.
I could change localhost to the actual name of the server this will run on. But then it would need to be manually updated for every server this stack will run on, or reset to localhost for developers.
I could combine WordPress and Tomcat into a single container, but we were hoping to keep them separate so that when we need to upgrade, we just change the version of the container we are pulling rather than having to rebuild a custom container from scratch.
Is there a more seamless way to do this, so that the URL in the user's browser never changes? Is there way to get this working so that remote users won't even know that the different parts of the site are hosted in different containers?
Assuming you do docker-compose in development and also in production, you replace localhost with servicename of the corresponding upstream.
Lets say, you have 3 containers: httpd, fpm ( wordpress) and java ( tomcat ). You configure httpd, to redirect to fpm:9000 if its domain.tld/php and redirect to java:8086 if the request is domain.tld/Application1.
All you need to understand is, that the actual service-name you have in docker-compose is available as a hostname in the container ( all containers ) - so containers can reach themselfs using the service-name of the other container - that makes inter-container communication very easy and pre-configureable, without knowing the actual container IPs ( which will change during development / production and host migrations )
I think I figured it out: I should have been using a proxy instead of a RewriteRule.
This seems to get me what I want:
ProxyPass "/Application1" "http://my-tomcat-server:8080/Application1"
ProxyPassReverse "/Application1" "http://my-tomcat-server:8080/Application1"
I have a site I developed locally for a client. They have an existing live site (at www.livesite.com). I want to move the developed site to their server, but I want to test it on their server before it's live.
I thought I'd install the site in a sub directory on their server (www.livesite.com/dev), and then using my hosts file, make my browser think it's viewing the final live URL (www.livesite.com).
However, I've tried various combination of things in my hosts file, and I can't seem to get it to work. The server ip followed by the domain / sub-domain.
I'm running on MAMP on OSX. Anyone have experience with this?
I am trying to integrate the liferay tomcat with apache web server.I successfully integrate the liferay with web server.
Condition:
Life ray deployed on ip say : 10.10.10.70
Apache web server on ip say: 10.10.10.80
I provided all the requirement virtual host requirement in httpd.conf file..and provided the web.server.host in portal-ext.properties file.
Problem: When i run liferay portal i can open it on ip: 10.10.10.70
but when i click on any page link (let say /home)that is present in my portal it moved the request to
10.10.10.80:8080/home instead of 10.10.10.70:8080/home
I want to know how to handle this condition.
Because i dont have any page resource on web server doc folder only contain static css..
You might be a bit more precise what "all the required virtual host settings" are, e.g. what did you configure?
Note that by explicitly configuring hostnames/IP-addresses, you're explicitly overriding the autodetected settings from the request - no matter how you get to your portal, Liferay will generate URLs based on the explicitly configured hostname/port.
What's the point in having an Apache in front and then trying to reach tomcat through the non-apache IP/Port? Typically you might have static resources, rewrites, caches on Apache, so that you'll get different results when you alternatively access tomcat through both URLs.
If you configure Apache to "properly" handle the requests before tomcat sees them, you'll typically not need to configure Liferay at all, because Apache will make the actual hostname that it's requested under available to Tomcat. I'm typically using mod_jk for this and it beautifully handles all the configuration with almost no need to explicitly configure tomcat/liferay. If you don't like this, keep in mind that you're explicitly configuring Liferay for the virtual host setup - naturally this explicitly configured name is what Liferay uses. It would be weird if the explicit value would not be used, right?