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Apache Redirect, the admin way

paul — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:14:32 +0000

I needed to redirect the root of my Webserver. The first (and easiest) way I found was to add this to my default virtual host:

Redirect / http://www.new-domain.com/

For me, that file was located in /etc/apache2/sites-available/default.

Fix "Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name" apache error

paul — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:12:13 +0000

To fix the error "Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name…" that happens when you restart Apache on Ubuntu, add this to /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

ServerName localhost

restart Apache again (apache2ctl graceful) and the error message should be gone.

Thanks to Mohamed Aslam

How to enable mod_rewrite in WordPress

paul — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:55:58 +0000

…so you can have descriptive URLs like ours. Three easy steps:

1) First, from /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/

ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/rewrite.load

2) Then…

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

3) Last, add this stuff to your virtual host definition (in my case, /etc/apache2/sites-available/everythingiscrap)

RewriteEngine On
RewriteOptions Inherit

I guess you could say that the last step is to ENABLE descriptive permalinks in the WordPress Dashboard > Settings > Permalinks. But I had already done that before I went poking around on the server. So, for me it was a three step process, but I guess you could argue that it's a four step process.

New Virtual Host in Apache on Ubuntu

paul — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:53:07 +0000

I'm an IIS guy, so Apache seems arcane to me. And the creation of a new website (aka Virtual Host) was difficult at first, but seems straightforward enough to me now. Here's how it's done.

Create a text file that will define your website in /etc/apache2/sites-available. In that text file goes a description of your new Virtual Host. Here's a barebones example:

DocumentRoot /www/mysite

ServerName my.site.com

Once you've created that file, you need to place a link to it in/etc/apache2/sites-enabled using a command like this (to create the symbolic link)

ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/mysite

Then you need to restart Apache…

apache2ctl restart

And, if you've done it right, you should have a new virtual host ready to go.

Apache Doesn't Start After System Restart

paul — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:49:00 +0000

Linux web server restart problem…

cd /etc/apache/

httpd -t httpd.conf

[which websites are "missing", comment them out in httpd.conf]

apachectl restart

…Had a power outage today which means our linux web server went down. And, once again, the web server didn't start because it couldn't find all the web sites listed in it's config file. To make a long story short, I went to /etc/apache/httpd.conf and ran… httpd -t httpd.conf …this told me that it couldn't find two of the websites listed in /etc/apache/httpd.conf. It also said that it "Cannot remove module mod_log_config.c" but I don't know what that's all about, and it doesn't matter. I commented out the two websites (with #) and typed… apachectl restart …and that fixed it.