Free sub-domain

[satimis]

Hi folks,

I'm prepared registering several free subdomain for server testing. Please advise where can I find them, other than .com.nu, changeip, freeDNS, subdomain.net .etc.

TIA

B.R.
satimis

[Freston]

Afraid.org works pretty well for me.

[satimis]

Afraid.org works pretty well for me.

Hi,

Thanks for your advice.

I have the subdomain "satimis.strangled.net" registered for more than a week. On their website the subdomain is pointing at the router public IP (static IP). Port 80 and 8080 have been forward to the local IP of the server. I can ping the subdomain but I can't browse its homepage. I can't resolve the problem. Other subdomain and domain work without such a problem.

B.R.
satimis

[Freston]

I get a placeholder on that site. Lighttpd not configured with the right DocumentRoot? Or is that not what you meant?

[satimis]

I get a placeholder on that site. Lighttpd not configured with the right DocumentRoot? Or is that not what you meant?

mysql> SELECT domain from domains;

+---------------------------+
| domain                    |
+---------------------------+
.....
....
| www.satimis.strangled.net |
+---------------------------+

mysql> SELECT docroot from domains;

+-----------------------------------------+
| docroot                                 |
+-----------------------------------------+
....
....
| /var/www/www.satimis.strangled.net/web/ |
+-----------------------------------------+

I performed same steps to setup other domain and subdomain. They are working without problem. I couldn't discover the cause. The homepage of "www.satimis.strangled.net" can't be browsed, server NOT found.

Edit:

$ ls /etc/lighttpd/

conf-available  conf-enabled  lighttpd.conf

$ ls /etc/lighttpd/conf-available/

05-auth.conf       10-simple-vhost.conf
10-access.conf     10-ssi.conf
10-accesslog.conf  10-ssl.conf
10-cgi.conf        10-status.conf
10-fastcgi.conf    10-userdir.conf
10-no-www.conf     15-fastcgi-php.conf
10-proxy.conf      90-debian-doc.conf
10-rrdtool.conf    README

$ sudo ls -al /etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled/

total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-07-18 09:16 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2011-04-19 00:00 ..

satimis

[Freston]

Ah, it appears DNS for
satimis.strangled.net exists but
www.satimis.strangled.net doesn't.


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The way it looks to me is that your webserver is ready to send incoming connections for www.satimis.strangled.net to the right page, but the DNS only knows satimis.strangled.net.

Now if you connect to satimis.strangled.net the webserver doesn't know what page to send, and when you connect to www.satimis.strangled.net the DNS system doesn't know what server to direct to.

You may test this if on your server you add a site called satimis.strangled.net with a file index.html with nothing but the text 'test123' or so in it and see if that comes up.

[satimis]

-snip-

- snip -

You may test this if on your server you add a site called satimis.strangled.net with a file index.html with nothing but the text 'test123' or so in it and see if that comes up.

On host browser
1)
www.satimis.strangled.net

Server NOT found

2)
satimis.strangled.net

Placeholder page

There is only one line on index.html
$ cat /var/www/www.satimis.strangled.net/web/index.html[code]
www.satimis.strangled.net
[code]

$ sudo nano /var/www/www.satimis.strangled.net/web/index.html
change the line to;
test123

Situation remains unchanged as reported above.

I'm in complete lost why only satimis.strangled.net has problem, not other domain and subdomain?

satimis

[Freston]

I'm in complete lost why only satimis.strangled.net has problem, not other domain and subdomain?

Hmmmmm

I notice www.satimis.strangled.net resolves to a different IP than satimis.strangled.net itself. I'd start by checking if these (sub)domains resolve to the right IP and adjust them if necessary by your DNS service.

[satimis]

Hmmmmm

I notice www.satimis.strangled.net resolves to a different IP than satimis.strangled.net itself. I'd start by checking if these (sub)domains resolve to the right IP and adjust them if necessary by your DNS service.

I don't run DNS server here using ISP DNS server instead. Just added another subdomain. It works seamlessly.

I have had a bitter lesson at start. There were only 2 vhosts, mydomain.com and satimis.strangled.com. I couldn't browse the latter. Therefore I suspected whether I can run vhost on VM. Then I started googling and posting. Some folks blamed me raising such silly question. A VM can be considered as a working PC. Later I added another subdomain. It worked seamlessly. strangled.com made me suffer for more than a week.

satimis

[Freston]

A VM can be considered as a working PC.

That is true, or at least for 90% true. Host and guest have some peculiar interactions sometimes. But for most intents and purposes, you can view them as fully separate machines.

I don't run DNS server here using ISP DNS server instead. Just added another subdomain. It works seamlessly.

I may misunderstand, but all subdomains of strangled.net are registered through afraid.com?

So I mean, it's just a matter of adding www.satimis.strangled.net to your afraid.com account and wait for this to propagate over the internet. That can be quite fast, but sometimes takes hours.