[support] Gone live problem

[Joel Willers]

You can always change your 'hosts' file on your machine to test how something works without actually changing the A record. Just add a line with IP address and the URL you want it to take over. Just make sure you remove it, otherwise you might not notice problems in the future.

Joel 


-----Original Message-----
From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On Behalf Of Earnie Boyd
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 6:35 AM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [support] Gone live problem

On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Anthony wrote:
> So I went live and changed the A-Rec to point to my new site. I entered
> 66.167.244.79 into the A-Rec.

A records should only point to the host name, such as example.com.

> Now I can get to the home page but not to the
> other pages. (500 error) The site actually has an IP address of
> http://66.167.244.79/foo/.

I'm not understanding what you are saying.  The IP address is
66.167.244.79.  The given URI here has a protocol of http:// and /foo
is a directory, file or service callback provided by the programming.
E.G.: example.com is set in the A record to point to 66.167.244.79 and
I enter http://example.com/foo to get to /foo on your server.  If this
isn't what you meant, then you need to clarify.

>My question is do I have to add the /foo to the
> A-rec?

No.

> Or do I just have to wait till it all propagates?

If http://example.com is propagated already then so is /foo.  If /foo
gives a 500 error code then something is wrong with the configuration.

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