[support] Gone live problem
Jamie Holly
hovercrafter at earthlink.net
Mon Jun 18 18:22:52 UTC 2012
How exactly are you set up? Is drupal installed in ~/public_html or
~/public_html/{some folder}. To access it, do you go to example.com or
example.com/{some path - refers to some folder}
Jamie Holly
http://www.intoxination.net
http://www.hollyit.net
On 6/18/2012 2:13 PM, Anthony wrote:
> 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 <mailto:hovercrafter at earthlink.net>> wrote:
>
> 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.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > --
>>>>> > Earnie
>>>>> > -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd
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