Re: Access Error

> I used to be able to connect to the server using Timbuktu, but after
> installing iTools the server (server version 10.1.4 and client version
> 10.1.5) no longer accepts incoming connections from outside our lan. The
> server only responds to requests for 127.0.0.1.

Peter,

Did when you say that your "server ... no longer accepts incoming
connections from outside..." do you mean that it stops accepting
connections from Timbuktu, ssh, or web service?

> I have used iTools to set up Bind and it seems to work ok, but some times
> the server does not recognize its own ip-number. Starting server admin gives
> me the following address to the server: 0.0.0.0, but after reboot the ip
> number 192.168.1.2 is pre written in server admin.

On your server running iTools (and doing DNS), is the DNS Server setting
in the Network section of the control panel set to the IP address of your
server?

>
> The httpd.conf file contains these lines which seem wrong, aren't they?
>
>  Listen: Allows you to bind Apache to specific IP addresses and/or
> # ports, in addition to the default. See also the <VirtualHost>
> # directive.
> #
> #Listen 3000
> #Listen 12.34.56.78:80

This is correct.

>
> Shouldn't the servers ip-number  be here instead of 12.34.56.78:80?

The Tenon configuration is correct and allows for Apache to respond to web
requests from any IP address that is configured.

>
>
> At the end of the file is this section:
>
> TransferLog     tenon/logs/iTools.log
> Listen 80
> #       Tenon iTools directives
> Port    80
> ServerName      127.0.0.1
> <VirtualHost    127.0.0.1:80>
> <Directory       /Library/WebServer/WebSites/127.0.0.1>
> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews IncludesNOEXEC
> </Directory>
> NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1
> ServerAlias     127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.tidningenchef.com 127.0.0.1
> 192.$
> </VirtualHost>
>
> I have tried to add a virtual host for 192.168.1.2 but that did not work so
> I added 192.168.1.2 as an alias to 127.0.0.1 but that did not work either.

Your use of the IP address 192.168.x.x scares me.  These addresses are
reserved for internal network use and will not work on the Internet.  Your
use of the loopback IP 127.0.0.1 in the above config file is also
incorrect.

I'm not sure what you're trying to do, but you would be more successful
using "real" IP addresses that have an entry in your DNS server.  To make
sure that Apache (and the Admin Server) look for the most up-to-date DNS
records, make sure that your computer is pointed to itself for DNS
(explained above).

>
>
> The error log shows this:
> [chefserver:~] peter% tail -f /private/var/log/httpd/error_log
> [Thu Jul 25 19:22:17 2002] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
> [Thu Jul 25 19:22:22 2002] [warn] module mod_redirectacgi_apple.c is already
> added, skipping
> [Thu Jul 25 19:22:22 2002] [notice] Apache/1.3.26 (iTools/MacOSX)
> mod_ssl/2.8.9 OpenSSL/0.9.6b mod_perl/1.26 mod_fastcgi/2.2.12 configured --
> resuming normal operations
> [Thu Jul 25 19:22:23 2002] [notice] Accept mutex: flock (Default: flock)
> [Thu Jul 25 19:22:23 2002] [notice] FastCGI: process manager initialized
> (pid 477)
> [Thu Jul 25 19:25:55 2002] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
> [Thu Jul 25 19:26:01 2002] [warn] module mod_redirectacgi_apple.c is already
> added, skipping
> [Thu Jul 25 19:26:01 2002] [notice] Apache/1.3.26 (iTools/MacOSX)
> mod_ssl/2.8.9 OpenSSL/0.9.6b mod_perl/1.26 mod_fastcgi/2.2.12 configured --
> resuming normal operations
> [Thu Jul 25 19:26:01 2002] [notice] Accept mutex: flock (Default: flock)
> [Thu Jul 25 19:26:01 2002] [notice] FastCGI: process manager initialized
> (pid 537)

iTools makes use of the existing httpd.conf file that Mac OS X installs.
This is good because it means that any Apache configuration changes that
you have made before installing iTools are preserved.  The downside to
this is that if there are any issues in the config file, iTools cannot
automatically "fix" them since it did not create those issues.  In the
above log file, the line indicating a warning with
mod_redirectacgi_apple.c must have been there before iTools was installed.
All of the Apache modules with the "_apple" suffix are Apple's.

>
>
> Additonal information:
>
> I have had Webmin installed but have uninstalled it. I also reinstalled
> iTools, but that did not help, so I made a complete uninstall using the
> uninstall script and then reinstalled from scratch.

I do not believe that Webmin will help you in this situation.  The Admin
Server has a larger number of Apache configuration features and will
ultimately be more successful.

> I'd really appreciate some explanations here. I am fraid that iTools Bind
> configuration stops working when the serial number expires, and then my mail
> server no longer works either.

To my knowledge, Bind will not stop working when the iTools serial number
expires.

Hope this helps,

Erik.

-- 
Erik Lotspeich                          Lead Engineer
Tenon Intersystems                      erik@xxxxxxxxx
1123 Chapala Street Ste 200             805-963-6983
Santa Barbara, CA 93101-3142            http://www.tenon.com/


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