VPS as web server

[fkasmani]

Hello,

I've taken up a VPS and am looking at setting up webERP on it which works entirely as a web based app.

The option I took up is CentOS 6.2 minimal based and came with only the root user and thus the ~/home directory was blank.
I've setup a new user and group by the name of webERP and in that created a folder public_html
So I now have a path

~/home/webERP/public_html

In this I made a text.txt and tried to access it as follows

http://ipnumber/test.txt

which resulted in a 404 not found:shaky:

Do I need to do any settings or configuration to the server to make it direct all web traffic to ~/home/webERP/public_html

BTW, the VPS came blank with no type of control panel or WHM and I installed Webmin.

Would really appreciate some help on this, pls.

Regards.

 

[Criot]

You won't be able to access files through the IP of the server I wouldn't of thought, you'll need to create a domain within webmin and add files through the file manager, then do your domain and file path in the browser (www.example.com/test.txt) - Not 100% if .txt files work though, try renaming it to a .html, .php or .htm extension.

 

[fkasmani]

You won't be able to access files through the IP of the server I wouldn't of thought, you'll need to create a domain within webmin and add files through the file manager, then do your domain and file path in the browser (www.example.com/test.txt) - Not 100% if .txt files work though, try renaming it to a .html, .php or .htm extension.

Thanks, in webmin, what's the easiest way to setup a domain and get it to ~/home/webERP/public_html

Googling around on this and have come across http://rimuhosting.com/howto/virtualhosting.jsp which i'm tying out.

 

[Criot]

I usually just create a separate account to my main root account for each website.

For example WebSound on a VPS would have the account name 'WebSound' with the domain as our domain name, that way the WebSound domain would be assigned to the WebSound public_html folder and any files that are put in there (such as index.php) would be accessed through the websound domain (www.example.com/index.php)

 

[fkasmani]

Looks like the location problem is solved and am not getting a 404 after I moved the webERP folder from "~/home/webERP/public_html" to "~/var/www/html" (as per what was stated in Apache Webserver (in Webmin). However, when I'm trying to load a .php file (eg: http://ipnumber/webERP/install/index.php) it just displays the core contents of the php file in the browser.

 

[Webcs-Peter]

Have you already solved your issue?

 

[WeLoveServers]

Is your issue resolved yet? If you need any further help I'm happy to give a hand.

 

[fkasmani]

Thanks so much for your support.

Unfortunately the issue is not solved yet - I ordered the VPS and paid one year up front so they'd installed and configure LAMP but now realise they didn't, so I've decided to re-format the VPS and install/configure LAMP myself.

Will post the updates.

 

[Collabora]

Give it a try on a windows server

 

[Chetanalpha]

Have you already solved your problem?

 

[maplehosting]

Looks like the location problem is solved and am not getting a 404 after I moved the webERP folder from "~/home/webERP/public_html" to "~/var/www/html" (as per what was stated in Apache Webserver (in Webmin). However, when I'm trying to load a .php file (eg: http://ipnumber/webERP/install/index.php) it just displays the core contents of the php file in the browser.

Is PHP installed and running?

Is the PHP file well coded?

 

[spenchev]

You can check it with typing the following command in your console:

php -v