[support] Gone live problem
Jamie Holly
hovercrafter at earthlink.net
Mon Jun 18 17:18:27 UTC 2012
You don't by chance have $base_url set in settings.php, do you?
Jamie Holly
http://www.intoxination.net
http://www.hollyit.net
On 6/18/2012 1:07 PM, Anthony wrote:
> Wow. When I comment it out I get this:
> http://66.147.244.79/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/accounts
> <http://66.147.244.79/%7Epolamor1/%7Epolamor1/%7Epolamor1/%7Epolamor1/%7Epolamor1/%7Epolamor1/%7Epolamor1/%7Epolamor1/%7Epolamor1/%7Epolamor1/%7Epolamor1/%7Epolamor1/%7Epolamor1/%7Epolamor1/%7Epolamor1/%7Epolamor1/%7Epolamor1/%7Epolamor1/%7Epolamor1/%7Epolamor1/%7Epolamor1/accounts>
> when trying to go to the accounts page.
>
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Jamie Holly
> <hovercrafter at earthlink.net <mailto:hovercrafter at earthlink.net>> wrote:
>
> 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.
>> >
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