Re: [cobalt-users] Virtual site already exists

["Tim M. Muldoon" <muldoon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I finally got this working...

The information presented here is for educational purposes only. Any changes
you make to your server are YOUR RESPONSIBILITY. Back-up early, back-up
often.

I called Cobalt support who, by the way, answer their phone pretty quickly
for a Sunday afternoon.

Having tried the other methods presented in this group and Cobalt's KB on
how to delete sites manually and regenerating the sitelist using
siteList.cgi to no avail...

Did I mention, backup early - backup often. I telnet'ed into the server as
root and deleted the offending files by name www.problemsite.com and deleted
the associated directories (site47 and site48 in my case)

su -
password:
cd /home
cd sites
rm www.problemsite1.com
rm www.problemsite2.com
rmdir site47 -r
rmdir site48 -r

BE VERY VERY CAREFUL with the -r switch, it will remove directories that are
not empty and can do very bad things if used in the wrong place.

And that was it, went back to the GUI and added a new virtual site without a
problem.

And I apologize in advance Jeff for top posting with tons of stuff below
this but your previous post is relevant...

Tim
muldoon@xxxxxxxxxxx

www.raqresources.com by a newbie - for newbies


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim M. Muldoon" <muldoon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 10:46 AM
Subject: [cobalt-users] Virtual site already exists


> Greetings,
>
> I am having the same problem as noted below, but can't find any further
> information.
>
> I was trying to adjust my group file, which didn't work very well,
(serious
> GUI problems) so I did a full restore of all my server configuration I
made
> before trying to adjust the group file.
>
> During the interim I had added 2 sites, 47 and 48, which appear in my
> home/sites directory by FTP but do not show in the GUI. If I double click
on
> the link names in WS_FTP it brings me to the home/sites/site47-48
> directories.
>
> What is the best way to fix this? Is there a way to force a re-read of the
> virtual site list?
>
> I can't delete them by FTP as admin which is why I was in the group file
in
> the first place.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Tim
> muldoon@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> From the archives...
> Jeff Lasman jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sat, 18 Dec 1999 13:57:12 -0800
>
> Somewhere is a file that keeps track of the number of the next virtual
> host.  That would be my guess.  Finding it might take a bit of detective
> work or a quick call to tech support if no one on the list could help you.
>
> Just to make sure though, look in your /home/sites directory to see if
> there's a link for www.newdomain.name.com that points to site162.
>
> Jeff
>
> At 10:40 AM 12/18/99  lists wrote:
> >Now we have another adding virtual host problem. When we use the graphic
> >interface to add a new virtual host it says.
> >
> >Group home /home/sites/site162 already exists
> >
> >But group site162 belongs to another virtual host which is currently
setup
> >and running on the same raq. Any ideas why it is trying to over write
> >another virtual host ?????? HELP PLEASE...
>
>
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