Comments on: Moving Day! How to Move Your Blog or Site

By: ADD Nginx Sub-Domains (or WordPress Blogs): VPS BIBLE - vpsBible

ADD Nginx Sub-Domains (or WordPress Blogs): VPS BIBLE - vpsBible — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:29:55 +0000

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By: CHEATSHEET Add More Domains with Nginx: VPS BIBLE - vpsBible

CHEATSHEET Add More Domains with Nginx: VPS BIBLE - vpsBible — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:29:39 +0000

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By: EASY! Setup DNS Domain Zone & Nameservers: VPS BIBLE - vpsBible

EASY! Setup DNS Domain Zone & Nameservers: VPS BIBLE - vpsBible — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:12:07 +0000

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By: the_guv

the_guv — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:27:28 +0000

Tx to a cracking plugin to sync the bbPress forum to WP comments .. comments are open now. Post here and your comment is automatically posted in the relevant forum. Post there and vice-versa. Comments below here have been imported from Guvnr. Bit of a timeline gap so apologies for that. (Big cheers to Bobrik for wordpress-bbpress-syncronization.)

By: Setup Google Apps Free to POP/IMAP Domains: VPS BIBLE - vpsBible

Setup Google Apps Free to POP/IMAP Domains: VPS BIBLE - vpsBible — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:00:13 +0000

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By: the_guv

the_guv — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:48:31 +0000

Hi Yendis,

Well, the NS records are right, for sure (and the order of them is irrelevant too, as far as I know). Maybe this is just a question of a little time for propagation. Hmmn. Well, I’m sure there are other ways to do this but maybe the easiest ..

Setup a dummy DNS zone, as explained in Add a Domain Zone to Your VPS. Call the domain anything-you-like.com and have Linode’s DNS manager set the records for you, as prompted in the options. Then copy the variables generated in the editable summary page to your real zone, and wait for propagation (which is really fast with Linode, their db updates every quarter-hour).

Then again, the way to find your IP, otherwise, is either by checking on the DNS Manager and looking at the page where you edited your reverse DNS setting (you did that in the Postfix setup bit) .. or just by typing ifconfig in the terminal (not ipconfig, that’s Windoze.)

Cloned it huh .. that sounds like another tute-to-go ..

By: Yendis

Yendis — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:11:44 +0000

Hey Guv,

I’ve been successful in serving a clone of my site on my Linode VPS. The IP I have is 97.107.XX.XXX. I can’t change the nameservers for the main site I want to move myself. I have to instruct the domain registerer. I asked that they ‘change the nameservers to ns1.linode.com, ns2. . . This they seem to have done but the Domain DNS details page now displays:

MX Records
0 mydomain.com 74.54.XXX.XXX

Nameservers
ns2.linode.com 65.19.178.10
ns3.linode.com 75.127.96.10
ns4.linode.com 207.192.70.10
ns1.linode.com 69.93.127.10

WWW verwijzingen
mydomain.com 74.54.XXX.XXX
http://www.mydomain.com mydomain.com

The 74.54.XXX.XXX IP is that of the server I am moving the site from.

I’m pretty sure these settings won’t work.

I reckon I need to tell them to change the old IPs to my new one. Would that be all? Are those IPs for the Linode nameservers correct?

Cheers.

By: the_guv

the_guv — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:18:07 +0000

@Yendis .. dude, keep ploughing thru! Just copy/paste, don’t divert from 1-20, and you can’t go wrong.

By: Yendis

Yendis — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:17:41 +0000

Aah. As I am not using WordPress I sort of skipped part 14. I’ve now used it to guide me in setting up my database. I’m trying to set up phpMyAdmin but it requires me to browser to its directory which I can’t do at the moment. I’m still stuck with the nginx welcome page.

By: Yendis

Yendis — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:40:04 +0000

Hi Guv, Thanks for the response. I just used that top tip and it works!

However, I am seeing the nginx welcome page. I reckon I should be seeing my uploaded files so I guess something is not right somewhere but where?

The other thing I wanna ask about is ‘create & link any databases and import your data within’. This I know how to do with phpMyAdmin. Have you done a guide to do this with CLI? Do you suggest installing phpMyAdmin on my VPS? Is there a guide for that?