First time trying to set up a server... and it's not going well.

**racertim** · 03-02-2010

Hello everyone!

I'm working with a friend of mine to get our first server up and running. We have about a dozen sites and are having trouble getting the virtual hosting to work. Since we have never done this before I'm sure we are missing something very basic here.

We have followed multiple guides and installed Fedora 12 and Apache2. We have edited the httpd.conf file and added virtual.conf, but when we go to enable the site with 'a2ensite' we get an error, 'a2ensite command not found.'

Like I said, I'm sure this is a simple error. Any help is greatly appreciated!

**mzv** · 03-02-2010

where do you type this command? Does your Apache server works with one site? (with no any virtual hosts configuration)

**racertim** · 03-02-2010

We're not trying to execute the command in any specific user, but we are logged in as root.

**lomcevak** · 03-02-2010

What the 'command not found' error means is that file a2ensite isn't in any of the directories specified in the PATH variable.

You could try:

Code:

whereis a2ensite

But I doubt it'll work. If it does you'll have to specify the path to run it, as listed below.

You'll have to use the brute force method:

Code:

find / -type f -name a2ensite

That'll search your entire disk. Once/If it finds it it'll list the full path like:
/path/to/a2ensite

So to run it you have to specify the path as well:
/path/to/a2ensite

**racertim** · 03-02-2010

It returned nothing. Any other ideas? Is this even the right command to use to enable the sites? We have a completely fresh install and have only added the virtual.conf file.

**reed9** · 03-02-2010

a2ensite appears to be a Debian script.

Administration Guide Draft/Apache - FedoraProject

Unix-Tutorials.com - The Perfect Server - Fedora 12 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3]

**coopstah13** · 03-02-2010

my only recommendation is to switch from fedora to a more server oriented distro like centos, F12 has a very short lifecycle, and having a non-up-to-date system is not a good idea especially with a web server

**racertim** · 03-03-2010

I didn't find out how to make the virtual hosts work, but I got the main site to work. I commented out

Code:

#Include conf.d/*.conf

This is what /etc/httpd/conf.d/virtual.conf contains

Code:

#
#  We're running multiple virtual hosts.
#
NameVirtualHost *

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