[support] Gone live problem

Mon Jun 18 18:13:30 UTC 2012

Yes I tried un-commenting and didn't help. Perplexing.

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Jamie Holly <hovercrafter at earthlink.net>wrote:

>  Generally you don't need it. Read the documentation in settings.php to
> understand it.
>
> Jamie Hollyhttp://www.intoxination.net http://www.hollyit.net
>
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> 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>wrote:
>
>>  Yup
>>
>> Jamie Hollyhttp://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';  // 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> wrote:
>>
>>>  You don't by chance have $base_url set in settings.php, do you?
>>>
>>> Jamie Hollyhttp://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
>>> when trying to go to the accounts page.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Jamie Holly <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 Hollyhttp://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.  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> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> First thing to do - make sure that your computer is going to the
>>>>> correct
>>>>> IP. From a command window:
>>>>>
>>>>> nslookup 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. A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>>>>> www.example.com. CNAME 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]
>>>>> On Behalf Of Earnie Boyd
>>>>> > Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 9:40 AM
>>>>> > To: 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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