How do you add a domain name to a VPS?

Question

I have a FlexGridSizer that I add a bunch of TextCtrl to, some of which are for users to enter a path, so I have a Button in the adjacent column to the right of those TextCtrl boxes. The label text is ... and I only call AddGrowableCol on the columns with TextCtrl in them... here is how I'm adding the Button in my for loop (I don't use addmany):

widgetItem = wx.Button(parent, -1, "...")
widgetItem.row=rowNum
widgetItem.col=colNum
widgetItem.target = lastTextBox
self.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.getFile, widgetItem)
currentSizer.AddF(widgetItem, wx.SizerFlags(0).Border(wx.ALL, 5))

Solution 1

This is going to be a two step process, so stay with me. :) First as Sam said: Log in to your DNS manager at network solutions (assuming they are providing your DNS) Create or edit A records for domain.com, Wiki.domain.com etc to point the IP address of your VPS Now we're going to setup our web server; There are millions but I recommend Apache. If you have Ubuntu then run(apt get install httpd) or Centos(yum install httpd). Now we have a web server and you can put files up, but do we want our wiki to be the main site? If not then we need to make a Vhost like so Main site

     <VirtualHost *>
      ServerName otherdomain.com
   ServerAlias www.otherdomain.com  
  DocumentRoot /www/main
</VirtualHost>

and for the wlki

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName blog.otherdomain.com
DocumentRoot /www/blogdomain
</VirtualHost>

Now using Sftp with most FTP programs you can upload files and go.

I highly suggest you look through Apache documentation to learn what everything does here

Assuming you need PHP and MySQL those are apt get install PHP and mysql (Ubuntu) or Centos(yum install php and mysql) I use a program called navicat to admin MYSQL. There is a free version you can get there.

If you feel you need a control panel still; a good free one can be found at webmin

Solution 2

The process would be something along these lines:

• Log in to your DNS manager at network solutions (assuming they are providing your DNS)
• Create or edit A records for domain.com, www.domain.com etc to point the IP address of your VPS
• Setup a web server on your VPS to handle this traffic
• Profit!

Comments

[Sirex]

Likely you'll want to set both domains to use something like xname.org for dns, then set both dns zones to be your vps ip. Then setup apache name based virtual hosts on apache. The hard part is explaining how to do that in an easy to follow way. Maybe someone else will be able to thrash this out into a step by step guide, but if not hopefully it'll give you a head start.

[Andrew Schulman]

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[ILYAS_Kerbal]

ok, I understood ; I will describe the method next time