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I can upload the site files to the ftp server. However, how do I connect
the domain name with the site files?

On Jan, 18 2008 22:29 CET, Jason wrote:

I can upload the site files to the ftp server. However, how do I
connect
the domain name with the site files?

Ok, I figured it out. I just have to add the domain as a virtual host,
add the site's file under a folder named www.sitename.extension and
then point the domain name to my server's IP address.

On Jan, 18 2008 23:28 CET, Jason wrote:

On Jan, 18 2008 22:29 CET, Jason wrote:

I can upload the site files to the ftp server. However, how do I
connect
the domain name with the site files?

Ok, I figured it out. I just have to add the domain as a virtual host,
add the site's file under a folder named www.sitename.extension and
then point the domain name to my server's IP address.

Didn't quite work as expected. Here are the issues:

1. Only the domain name without "www." works. I have the A record for
"@" and the A record for "www" pointing to my server's IP address. So I
don't know why it won't work when I try to access the site using "www".

2. The second site is accessing the files of the first site. I can't
figure out how to get the second site to access it's own files.

I know I'm the only one here and by looking back, I see there there is
VERY limited hosting support through the forums. 

Nevertheless, maybe someone can learn from my own trial and error.

To identify the directory for your domain name (virtual host), you need
to be in advanced mode.

You don't need to have your site in the default "htdocs", and your site
folder can be named whatever you want.

I ran some tests and it works as expected.

HOWEVER, I still don't know how to get it to show my domain name with
the "www" in front.

On Jan, 19 2008 00:49 CET, Jason wrote:

I know I'm the only one here and by looking back, I see there there is
VERY limited hosting support through the forums. 

Nevertheless, maybe someone can learn from my own trial and error.

To identify the directory for your domain name (virtual host), you
need
to be in advanced mode.

You don't need to have your site in the default "htdocs", and your
site
folder can be named whatever you want.

I ran some tests and it works as expected.

HOWEVER, I still don't know how to get it to show my domain name with
the "www" in front.

Hello,

This is due to the current default configuration of the Apache
virtualhost for Gandi AI. 

In order for Apache to know how to handle the request for a particular
hostname, there needs to be a specific statement in the virtualhost
file that will point a particular hostname to a directory.

Therefore, for example, is you have configured Apache to respond to the
virtualhost domain.com then it will not reply to the www subdomain.

What you will need to do is to use Gandi's forwarding and then create a
forwarding from the www subdomain to the domain name.

For more on setting up forwarding:
http://wiki.gandi.net/en/domains/managemen...

In expert mode you would simply add a ServerAlias in the sites-available
virtualhost file for the website (documention on this may be found here:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core....

Otherwise, for more personalized support on your problem, please feel
free to contact Gandi's customer support at:
http://www.gandi.net/faq/form_contact_supp...

You mentioned that "You don't need to have your site in the default
"htdocs", and your site folder can be named whatever you want.". This
should not be the case, and is possibly indicative of a bug. I would be
interested in hearing more on this.



Regards,

Ryan
http://www.gandi.net/

On Jan, 19 2008 06:47 CET, Ryan (Gandi) wrote:

On Jan, 19 2008 00:49 CET, Jason wrote:

I know I'm the only one here and by looking back, I see there there
is
VERY limited hosting support through the forums. 

Nevertheless, maybe someone can learn from my own trial and error.

To identify the directory for your domain name (virtual host), you
need
to be in advanced mode.

You don't need to have your site in the default "htdocs", and your
site
folder can be named whatever you want.

I ran some tests and it works as expected.

HOWEVER, I still don't know how to get it to show my domain name with
the "www" in front.

Hello,

This is due to the current default configuration of the Apache
virtualhost for Gandi AI. 

In order for Apache to know how to handle the request for a particular
hostname, there needs to be a specific statement in the virtualhost
file that will point a particular hostname to a directory.

Therefore, for example, is you have configured Apache to respond to
the
virtualhost domain.com then it will not reply to the www subdomain.

What you will need to do is to use Gandi's forwarding and then create
a
forwarding from the www subdomain to the domain name.

For more on setting up forwarding:


http://wiki.gandi.net/en/domains/managemen...

In expert mode you would simply add a ServerAlias in the
sites-available
virtualhost file for the website (documention on this may be found
here:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core....

Otherwise, for more personalized support on your problem, please feel
free to contact Gandi's customer support at:
http://www.gandi.net/faq/form_contact_supp...

You mentioned that "You don't need to have your site in the default
"htdocs", and your site folder can be named whatever you want.". This
should not be the case, and is possibly indicative of a bug. I would
be
interested in hearing more on this.



Regards,

In the advanced mode, you can set the path of your website files. for
instance, I wanted the domain name to point to www/anyfolder, I would
just set the path name to that site.