Posting to web server

[Charles Chambers]

On 10/20/19 6:05 PM, Thomas Ward wrote:
>
>
> On 10/20/19 8:38 PM, Charles Chambers wrote:
>> I've got a current copy of the mirror downloaded, and I'm confused on
>> one point.
>>
>> The repository is set up at /media/8TB/ubuntu-mirror.  The directories
>> are below that, and rsync is working to update that target directory.
>
> Slightly different setup here, but I have a /srv/repository-mirror/
> directory on my system set up as the mount point for the disk drive
> which holds my repository mirror.  This is pretty simple to set up,
> but where you've mounted things is irrelevant - it's the webserver
> setup parts that's specifically critical.
>
> You *probably* need to point your webserver's docroot to
> /media/8TB/ubuntu-mirror for your web server which is running on the
> same machine.
>
Docroot is still pointed at default - /var/www/html.  That's why the web
server is passing out the default setup page for Apache2.

>> I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 for the web server.  I have port forwarding set
>> up on my router to redirect calls to the public IP (currently
>> 68.226.101.35) to the web server, which I know still needs some content.
>>
>> However, I can't figure out how to set it up so that a URL of
>> http://68.226.101.35/ubuntu) somehow draws content from
>> /media/8TB/ubuntu-mirror.
>
> That's a question of setting up the web server and access permissions
> properly.  Have you started this setup process?  If so, what web
> server and what is your current setup?
>
Apache2, default vanilla setup at the moment.  There is actually a
second instance of Apache2 running as a local hotspot, but this instance
is still based on the default Apache2 install.

>
>>   Ancillary question would be how do I finish
>> the setup so that Apache2 would show the mirror from an address of, for
>> instance, http://[mirror].68.226.101.35?  This would be preferred, as I
>> also have the cdimage repository correctly mirrored, and stored at
>> /media/8TB/ubuntu-cdimage, and would like to use
>> http://[cdimage].68.226.101.35 for the URL.
>
>
> Yeah, you can't have [text].[IPADDRESS] for a URL.  IP address bare,
> or get and use a domain with the URL.  This is just an Internet-ism,
> and DNS related, and how URL(s) are constructed.
>
Well, OK.  Let's propose http://mirror.wiredisp.ddns.net, where
[wiredisp.ddns.net] is currently going through a dynamic DNS service.  I
had thought that 68.226.101.35 returns the default web page, and
mirror.68.226.101.35 could return the mirror, but I'm always learning. 
I understand what you're saying - you can't base a subdomain (or a
virtual server) on a URL formed on an IP address. 


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