I recently redid a client's old Drupal site, in Apostrophe, and pointed their domain to the new server.
I am now trying to access the old site via IP address, but there seems to be a redirect configured to rewrite the base IP address to the domain name (72.xx.xxx.xxx to www.clientdomain.com).
Is there something configured in Drupal to rewrite the IP address? Can I change a field in the database or configuration files to prevent this?
I have ssh access to the server, and have poured over the Drupal code, settings.php, .htaccess, etc., but cannot locate this offending field. I am not familiar with Drupal, but suspect it could be an admin setting. Since the site redirects, I am unable to login to the admin backend.
Any and all insight is appreciated. Thanks for your help!
A few possibilities:
In the settings.php (sites/default/settings.php), see if there is a $base_url set. If you can see any, comment that line. You can run a drupal site without the base_url hardcoded in the settings.php
In the .htaccess look for redirects. Your safest bet is to replace it with a fresh file downloaded from http://drupal.org/project/drupal
The most likely case is that your web server is configured to redirect the IP address to the main domain.
You can also access your site at old server by explicitly setting the IP address in your hosts file. Check it for your operating system DNS resolver docs.
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I am trying to point the domain www.xxx.com to www.ttio.com/tc using cloudflare to enable to the https on the site.
On GoDaddy I have changed the nameservers to cloudflare's recommended name servers
I have also gone to "Page rules" on Cloudflare and added a forwarding rule so that the above is in place.
On going to www.xxx.com however, i get the following error:
It redirects to this url: https://shortener.secureserver.net/error_404
and the error is:
Destination
Unknown
Everything's working on our side, so the link you clicked is either wrong or has been retired.
I have done everything I think I should have, so could anyone shed any light on this please?
You can't point a domain (e.g. www.xxx.com) at an URL (e.g. www.ttio.com/tc). A domain needs to be converted to an IP address by the browser.
If the web server for www.ttio.com is set to recognise www.xxx.com and serve the content from the /tc folder under www.ttio.com, just set up a CNAME for www.xxx.com pointing www.ttio.com and it will work.
If the web server for www.ttio.com doesn't know about www.xxx.com at all, you'll need to use a translation proxy. One way of doing that is using a Cloudflare worker to map the www.xxx.com/PATH URL to www.ttio.com/tc/PATH. An example of how to do this is at https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/tutorials/configure-your-cdn/. You may also need to rewrite the HTML so that links in the pages don't point to www.ttio.com/tc. An example of how to do that is at https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/reference/apis/html-rewriter/.
I have two hosting accounts (Personal one and a work one). I am doing some testing and would like to create a subdomain of a work domain (manage.domain.com) and host it on my personal account. Currently, my personal host is through 1and1 and is dedicated while the work one is shared with GoDaddy.
Work
I have gone into go daddy and created the subdomain. I have also added DNS records such as A, AAAA AND NS (i did not record a CNAME). I have noticed that if is type manage.domain.com it is redirecting to my personal server. However, it is directing to the blank admin page of the root of the server (which is maintained using Plesk).
Personal
Using Plesk I added the website (domain.com) and created the subdomain (manage.domain.com). I have also updated the websites hosting access using Plesk and assigned it the default values of my personal account. Using Plesk I also set the subdomain to the particular location of the files I want to test. However, I cannot get my server to recognize the address and redirect it to the proper location.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
J
You can just create:
in personal account domain(not subdomain) manage.domain.com
on domain.com add DNS record of type A, name "manage" and IP address of personal hosting:
After that "manage.domain.com" will resolving to hosting of your personal account and can be accessed because such domain exists.
I figured it out
What i did above was correct expect do not change the name servers on the work DNS(godaddy).
Add the website to plesk - it will give you an error about not being able to control the DNS settings which you have already adjusted on the original server (godaddy)
Add a subdomain of the website.
*** Ensure the subdomain is pointed to the correct folder within your server
Done
Let's suppose there is a webpage where someone can create his own profile page.
His profile page is then available at
domain.com/some-user
Then, this user with profile domain.com/some-user, own his own domain
someuser.com
and he wants redirect from someuser.com -> domain.com/some-user
How can this be achieved?
I mean what DNS records must be set for someuser.com, and what web-server settings must be set on domain.com
Thanks
One possible solution is to redirect him to domain.com host, and via apache, redirect him to domain.com/some-user.
You can do it in several technologies as Java, Php, Ruby, Node, since it's a http header field (host), which you can read and do the processing that you want.
For instance, using apache configured to answer for someuser.com and .htaccess files it would be:
Redirect "/" "http://domain.com/some-user/"
I recently moved one of my sites (gezondbenjij.nl) to a new hosting account. This resulted in a new IP address.
Unfortunately, since the move, the Facebook scraper cannot find my site on the new IP address. It still uses the old IP. All DNS settings are correct, and every browser/client/tool finds the correct site at 178.22.57.204 (gezondbenjij.nl). Except for Facebook.. The facebook scraper lands in my old hosting account. So I guess their hostfile or DNS cache still holds the old data. Even after a couple of weeks.
I have set a domain alias at gezondbenjij.com --> gezondbenjij.nl, and redirected the old hosting account to this .com domain. In this way, facebook is redirected to the correct site via a bypass, but still is not able to scrape the site. So the URLs I try to share on facebook will not generate snippets at this moment.
Is there any way to force (or kindly ask) Facebook to update their DNS cache? I used the fb URL linter, but it will not solve the issue. It will only reset facebook's html cache, not the DNS cache..
Check your IPv4 and IPv6 IP addresses in your DNS configuration. I had similar issue and the problem was that I've updated only IPv4 DNS record, while keeping old IPv6 (Facebook uses IPv6 in it's Tools). My hosting provider corrected it and problem was solved.
I have a domain in which I want the subdirectory to be shown as a subdomain in the url.
I do not want it to be a subdomain because it'll cause problems with the integration of two cms's that I have.
I would like
forum.domain.com -> domain.com/forum
to redirect to there but I would also like it to keep saying forum.domain.com in the url and not change to /forum.
I do have access to the DNS zones but I am completely lost on how to do this. So far my forum.domain.com is a website by itself in which I do not want it to be.
*Server Htaccess is running helicon ape.
This cannot be done purely through DNS. It's not hard, but it does involve your web server's configuration.
In DNS, create a CNAME (an alias) for forum.domain.com to point to your server, probably domain.com.
In your webserver's configuration, configure a new virtual host with that path as its document home. The way you do this will depend on whether you use Apache, Nginx, etc.