[support] Gone live problem

[Jamie Holly]

Comment it out and it should fix it. I have a client with Drupal 
installations in sub directories as well as the root directory on 
BlueHost and none of them need RewriteBase set.

Jamie Holly
http://www.intoxination.net
http://www.hollyit.net


On 6/18/2012 12:25 PM, Anthony wrote:
> Thanks for all the info. As usual the devil is in the detail.  Let me 
> try to explain exactly what I did.
> 1. I didn't want to move our email from yahoo so I started asking 
> Bluehost how to go about doing that. They said and I quote/"Changing 
> your name servers to Bluehost would interrupt your mail unless you 
> change your MX records with us to point to Yahoo before you change the 
> nameservers.I went ahead and made the MX record change on our end, you 
> can change the nameservers at anytime./"
>
> They also said (different dude 10 hours later).
> /"You can change the hosting of just the website to us by pointing 
> just the a record of the domain to 66.147.244.79 <tel:66.147.244.79>. 
>  This will change the domain but not the mx entries."/
> 2. So I changed only the A-Record from yahoo to the ip address 
> mentioned. Not the NS records on network solutions.
> 3. Then got the error mentioned. Got to home page but no further. 500 
> errors.
> 4. Looked in the .htaccess and saw the line
> RewriteBase /~polamor1/
> I suspect that this may be wrong and I have to comment this line out 
> but due to my ignorance can not justify based on logic.
>
> Thanks
> Tony
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Jamie Holly 
> <hovercrafter at earthlink.net <mailto:hovercrafter at earthlink.net>> wrote:
>
>     First thing to do - make sure that your computer is going to the
>     correct
>     IP. From a command window:
>
>     nslookup example.com <http://example.com>
>
>     If the IP is right then check your server error logs. A 500 error
>     is not
>     a DNS error. It actually comes from a webserver (see RFC 2616). As
>     long
>     as you are going to the right server, then the big hint will lie
>     within
>     the server's error logs.
>
>     Also make sure you have a CNAME set up:
>
>     example.com <http://example.com>. A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>     www.example.com <http://www.example.com>. CNAME example.com
>     <http://example.com>.
>
>     You need to CNAME www. to your A record or it won't work since www. is
>     viewed as a subdomain. This wouldn't lead to the error (you would just
>     get a server not found error - no HTTP error codes), but it does
>     prevent
>     future problems of people who want to use the www.
>
>     Jamie Holly
>     http://www.intoxination.net
>     http://www.hollyit.net
>
>
>     On 6/18/2012 10:46 AM, Joel Willers wrote:
>     > I was referring to his hosts file on his personal machine for
>     testing. Editing your hosts file makes you not have to wait for
>     DNS changes, as you're telling your browser what IP address it
>     supposed to be used. I use it to see what happens if I want a site
>     to go live but what to see the ramifications first.
>     >
>     > Joel
>     >
>     >
>     > -----Original Message-----
>     > From: support-bounces at drupal.org
>     <mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org>
>     [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org
>     <mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org>] On Behalf Of Earnie Boyd
>     > Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 9:40 AM
>     > To: support at drupal.org <mailto:support at drupal.org>
>     > Subject: Re: [support] Gone live problem
>     >
>     > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Joel Willers wrote:
>     > >  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.
>     >
>     > I don't believe the OP has access to his /etc/hosts file and the
>     provider will not do it for him.
>     >
>     > --
>     > Earnie
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>
>
> -- 
>
> */Anthony Stefan Maciejowski/*
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