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*Since writing this post many years ago, I have been turned off to DynDNS. I now mostly use AWS cloud instead of self hosted servers, seems cheaper than the electricity. I also use Route53 as my very preferred DNS.
I recently switched this site from being a subdirectory in my domain to being a subdomain. I am using Ubuntu 13.04 known as Raring, Apache 2, Dyndns and WordPress 7.01 for this article.
I have several subdirectories dealing with totally different content.
My newest site is this Linuxguru blog. I hope to make some money finding Consultant work throughout the world and another little bit with Google Adsense.
It was installed as milknhoney.co.il/linuxguru (will now give you 404 since it has moved)
I wanted to change it to being it’s own subdomain of http://linuxguru.milknhoney.co.il
- I first created a file using vi in /etc/apache2/sites-available I named it after my new subdomain linuxguru. You do not need to call it .conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/linuxguru
ServerName linuxguru.milknhoney.co.ilErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.linuxguru.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warnCustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.linuxguru.log combined
</VirtualHost>
- In order to test whether Apache2 was working properly, which it wasn’t, I updated update /etc/hosts with the new full subdomain name linuxguru.milknhoney.co.il
192.168.5.7 localhost www.milknhoney.co.il linuxguru.milknhoney.co.il
Opening up the web site in my browser, apache gave me a license error produced by a different software. I , wrongly figured maybe that software needed to know about the new subdomain. So I updated dyndns at http://dyn.com/ who manages my dns service.
I did this in the zone settings.
linuxguru.milknhoney.co.il | CNAME |
Still I had the license error. I then checked logs, at /var/logs/apache2 , which had nothing.
I then updated WordPress which I use for this blog in Settings –> General . I Changed it and Wordpress and got even worse errors from WordPress when opening the old subdirectory and the same license error when trying the new subdomain.
Finally I remembered that there is a subdirectory called /etc/apache2/sites-enabled. The files here are supposed to be links to /etc/apache2/sites-available
so I did:
- From a shell using konsole I made the needed link, cd to etc/apache2/sites-enabled
sudo ln -s ../sites-available/linuxguru linuxguru
- give your password