Need help with Virtual Hosts on Ubuntu (Paid)

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Well if you could ever wear out a disk by saving a conf file too many times I would have accomplished that in the last two days. I need some help, and it can be paid, to get my Ubuntu Apache server working with two virtual hosts.

I somehow managed to get it working some months ago with a single host for testing. I now need two sites and one of them HTTPS (I have not even touched that yet).

If somebody would want to earn a few dollars to help it would be appreciated.

You can contact me at Mark@SimplyBASICsoftware.com

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You might try the Cherokee web server which includes a nice admin interface.

I would advise getting a managed hosting provider or hiring a managed services team. They are usually inexpensive and can help you. I would not let just anyone on your server.

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This is currently on Rackspace and they do have managed services. I currently have Webmin installed that is a very nice and easy to use interface. Just about every Apache option appears to be available but I am obviously missing something. I want to configure two domains so only the domain is required to hit each each virtual server (no slash directory after the domain or sub-domain). I can get close and have one of three scenarios happen:

  1. Forbidden error
  2. Not found error
  3. Or a XOJO error that says the app has gone off line but the page format is in complete and there is an image referenced in the page that is a broken link.

I am not sure that if I used Rackspace managed services they would not say: “Sorry we don’t understand XOJO”.

I had this working but not as a virtual server so it does work on this server.

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  1. Forbidden error isn’t necessarily bad. Could just mean you don’t have a default document in that directory.
  2. Virtual host probably pointing to wrong place.
  3. This usually means the Xojo app crashed. I’ve seen this happen a few times and it can be difficult to diagnose. Usually something in the Session Open event is crashing the app. Perhaps a wrong path to a database or something. It can be tricky to find. Start with a super simple app that does nothing just to verify settings.
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This app was totally working on this server prior to trying to configure Apache to use virtual hosts so I think the app does work properly.

I will concentrate on looking at the forbidden problem.

ALSO — a couple of times I managed to get the Perl script to display as text. I thought that was a mime issue but I could not fix it.

Thanks for the hints.

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Well what I mean is maybe the app was looking in the wrong directory for something which could cause it to crash.

In regards to Perl that’s not actually a MIME issue. That means the web server doesn’t know it should use Perl to interpret that file.

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Are you just deploying Xojo apps in these two virtual domains? If so, it might be easier to setup HAProxy or Nginx and run them as stand alone instead. I find that web apps are typically a little more responsive that way. If you need Apache for other stuff as well, then you might not want to bother with it.