Adding a new site and feeling good about it
August 21, 2010 3:17 pm Leave your thoughtsSay you have a running Linux box on Rackspace and wish to add a new web site to its virtual servers. Don’t let any *nix ninja tell you it’s simple/quick/fun. Here’s why:
1. Register a domain (newsite.com) and point its DNS to DNS1.STABLETRANSIT.COM, DNS2.STABLETRANSIT.COM
2. SSH your Rackspace site and create a new VirtualHost:
mkdir /home/user/newsite.com
vi /home/user/newsite.com/index.html
Welcome to newsite.com!
vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/newsite.com
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost ServerName newsite.com DocumentRoot /home/user/newsite.com <Directory /> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory> <Directory /home/user/newsite.com> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride all Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin"> AllowOverride None Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit, # alert, emerg. LogLevel warn CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/" <Directory "/usr/share/doc/"> Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128 </Directory> </VirtualHost>
a2ensite newsite.com
/etc/init.d/apache2 reload
3. Login at manage.rackspacecloud.com
Hosting – Cloud Servers – myserver – DNS – Add – newsite.com – Add – Type A, newsite.com, my IP, 300
now we wait…
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