Re: wiki.erights.org Downtime and IP address change

Kevin Reid <kpreid-M/[email protected]> wrote:

> The wiki appears to be confused about its hostname; for example, the feed
>
>  http://wiki.erights.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Newpages&feed=atom
>
> contains URLs starting with "http://50.77.162.161/".

When I had initially brought up the machine, the wiki wasn't working.
I think it was because of the Apache setup, which was referencing
wiki.erights.org.  However, that name was not pointing to the new IP
address.  And for whatever reason, even though I had the
wiki.erights.org name pointing to the right IP address in the
/etc/hosts file, it didn't seem to help.

Now that I think of it, I think OpenBSD has a resolution order
directive (similar to /etc/nsswitch.conf on Debian systems) and I do
*not* have a resolution order directive in the /etc/resolv.conf file.

So at the time (I was in a rush) I just changed the Apache config to
use the IP address instead.  Now the DNS is resolving correctly, I
change change the config file back to the way it was.

Next time we'll be on a more up-to-date Ubuntu box, and hopefully
everything will be easier to configure.  I haven't spent much time
trying to migrate the wiki to the new box; it has been crazy busy at
work recently.

BR,

James