[support] Gone live problem
Jamie Holly
hovercrafter at earthlink.net
Mon Jun 18 18:03:30 UTC 2012
Generally you don't need it. Read the documentation in settings.php to
understand it.
Jamie Holly
http://www.intoxination.net
http://www.hollyit.net
On 6/18/2012 1:53 PM, Anthony wrote:
> So it should be used and set correctly?
>
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Jamie Holly
> <hovercrafter at earthlink.net <mailto:hovercrafter at earthlink.net>> wrote:
>
> Yup
>
> Jamie Holly
> http://www.intoxination.net
> http://www.hollyit.net
>
>
> On 6/18/2012 1:27 PM, Anthony wrote:
>> # $base_url = 'http://66.147.244.79/~polamor1/polamnew
>> <http://66.147.244.79/%7Epolamor1/polamnew>'; // NO trailing slash!
>>
>> Does hash comment it out? polamnew is the old path.
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Jamie Holly
>> <hovercrafter at earthlink.net <mailto:hovercrafter at earthlink.net>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> 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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