UPDATE: So it seems that I can access the website from computers outside of the LAN, it's when I try to pull up from any computer on the same LAN as the server that I get an issue. From what I've read it seems like this is a NAT problem. I don't entirely understand the issue, but I know it has to do with how the router treats traffic which is trying to access a public domain that is actually hosted on server connected to the router. My router has an IP triggering feature, and from what I remember about its purpose that may be what I need to configure.
I'm trying to teach myself some server basics by setting up a test server VM in VirtualBox and hosting my own WordPress blog. This is all mostly in preparation for when I finish my thesis, which will include a digital/web version which I would prefer to be able to host myself. Everything has gone pretty smoothly. I got a LAMP set up working, created a couple of test Virtual Hosts, installed WordPress and was able to visit all the Virtual Hosts, including the one with my WordPress blog, from within my LAN. Where I have run into trouble is trying to open the server to the Internet. I bought a domain name and set up dynamic DNS (I'm on a residential Comcast account) using this guide, which seemed to work, but for the life of me I can't seem to get it working and I'm out of troubleshooting ideas.
Setup details:
- The desktop on which the VM lives is running Windows 7, not sure if you all need hardware specifics, but it's a gaming machine with a decent bit of power.
- I'm using VirtualBox for the VM, and I have it set up with a Bridged connection.
- Ubuntu Server 14.04 is the OS on the VM
- Using LAMP setup, and I changed my document root to /srv, just made more sense to me.
- Using Namecheap.com for dynamic DNS. I set it up using the guide above, and got a success message. Also it updated the IP in host settings at namecheap.com, all of which leads me to believe that my dynamic DNS is likely configured properly.
- On my router I've forwarded ports 80, 443 and even 8080 just in case. I've also put my server in DMZ, and even tried turning off the firewall all together.
- I'm using a modem and router 2-in-1 from Comcast. It's running "eMTA & DOCSIS Software Version:7.6.116".
Not sure what all log/conf info will help, so hopefully this isn't overkill...
Apache2.conf
# Global configuration
#
#
# ServerRoot: The top of the directory tree under which the server's
# configuration, error, and log files are kept.
#
# NOTE! If you intend to place this on an NFS (or otherwise network)
# mounted filesystem then please read the Mutex documentation (available
# at <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/core.html#mutex>);
# you will save yourself a lot of trouble.
#
# Do NOT add a slash at the end of the directory path.
#
#ServerRoot "/etc/apache2"
# Trying to fix internet acessability issue...
# ServerName anarchoanthro.com <-- this got rid of that startup error, but otherwise didn't work.
#
# The accept serialization lock file MUST BE STORED ON A LOCAL DISK.
#
Mutex file:${APACHE_LOCK_DIR} default
#
# PidFile: The file in which the server should record its process
# identification number when it starts.
# This needs to be set in /etc/apache2/envvars
#
PidFile ${APACHE_PID_FILE}
#
# Timeout: The number of seconds before receives and sends time out.
#
Timeout 300
#
# KeepAlive: Whether or not to allow persistent connections (more than
# one request per connection). Set to "Off" to deactivate.
#
KeepAlive On
#
# MaxKeepAliveRequests: The maximum number of requests to allow
# during a persistent connection. Set to 0 to allow an unlimited amount.
# We recommend you leave this number high, for maximum performance.
#
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
#
# KeepAliveTimeout: Number of seconds to wait for the next request from the
# same client on the same connection.
#
KeepAliveTimeout 5
# These need to be set in /etc/apache2/envvars
User ${APACHE_RUN_USER}
Group ${APACHE_RUN_GROUP}
#
# HostnameLookups: Log the names of clients or just their IP addresses
# e.g., www.apache.org (on) or 204.62.129.132 (off).
# The default is off because it'd be overall better for the net if people
# had to knowingly turn this feature on, since enabling it means that
# each client request will result in AT LEAST one lookup request to the
# nameserver.
#
HostnameLookups Off
# ErrorLog: The location of the error log file.
# If you do not specify an ErrorLog directive within a <VirtualHost>
# container, error messages relating to that virtual host will be
# logged here. If you *do* define an error logfile for a <VirtualHost>
# container, that host's errors will be logged there and not here.
#
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
#
# LogLevel: Control the severity of messages logged to the error_log.
# Available values: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
# error, crit, alert, emerg.
# It is also possible to configure the log level for particular modules, e.g.
# "LogLevel info ssl:warn"
#
LogLevel warn
# Include module configuration:
IncludeOptional mods-enabled/*.load
IncludeOptional mods-enabled/*.conf
# Include list of ports to listen on
Include ports.conf
# Sets the default security model of the Apache2 HTTPD server. It does
# not allow access to the root filesystem outside of /usr/share and /var/www.
# The former is used by web applications packaged in Debian,
# the latter may be used for local directories served by the web server. If
# your system is serving content from a sub-directory in /srv you must allow
# access here, or in any related virtual host.
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Require all denied
</Directory>
<Directory /usr/share>
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
</Directory>
<Directory /srv/>
Options FollowSymLinks IncludesNOEXEC
XBitHack on
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
</Directory>
# AccessFileName: The name of the file to look for in each directory
# for additional configuration directives. See also the AllowOverride
# directive.
#
AccessFileName .htaccess
#
# The following lines prevent .htaccess and .htpasswd files from being
# viewed by Web clients.
#
<FilesMatch "^\.ht">
Require all denied
</FilesMatch>
#
# The following directives define some format nicknames for use with
# a CustomLog directive.
#
# These deviate from the Common Log Format definitions in that they use %O
# (the actual bytes sent including headers) instead of %b (the size of the
# requested file), because the latter makes it impossible to detect partial
# requests.
#
# Note that the use of %{X-Forwarded-For}i instead of %h is not recommended.
# Use mod_remoteip instead.
#
LogFormat "%v:%p %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" vhost_combined
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O" common
LogFormat "%{Referer}i -> %U" referer
LogFormat "%{User-agent}i" agent
# Include of directories ignores editors' and dpkg's backup files,
# see README.Debian for details.
# Include generic snippets of statements
IncludeOptional conf-enabled/*.conf
# Include the virtual host configurations:
IncludeOptional sites-enabled/*.conf
# vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noet
UserDir disabled root
ports.conf
# If you just change the port or add more ports here, you will likely also
# have to change the VirtualHost statement in
# /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf
Listen 80
Listen 8080
<IfModule ssl_module>
Listen 443
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_gnutls.c>
Listen 443
</IfModule>
# vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noet
my-wpsite.conf <-- This is the only site enabled, and I just copied the default.conf and edited it.
<VirtualHost *:80>
# The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
# the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
# redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
# specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
# match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
# value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
# However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
#ServerName www.example.com
ServerAdmin johnbltz@gmail.com
ServerName www.anarchoanthro.com
ServerAlias anarchoanthro.com
DocumentRoot /srv/wp-anarchoanthro
# Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
# error, crit, alert, emerg.
# It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
# modules, e.g.
#LogLevel info ssl:warn
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
# For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
# enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
# include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
# following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
# after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
#Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf
# Set /srv/testsite1/cgibin/ as CGI script directory.
ScriptAlias "/cgi-bin/" "/srv/wp-anarchoanthro/cgi-bin/"
# vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noet
And here are my logs. I tried to load up anarchoanthro.com, my blog, just before grabbing these. Also I'm only including logs from today, hopefully that will narrow things down.
access.log
95.134.193.184 - - [01/Aug/2015:04:17:41 -0500] "\x0fK\x17\xaf$W\xff'" 200 28811 "-" "-"
199.30.228.129 - - [01/Aug/2015:05:07:30 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 7795 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 GTB7.1"
38.105.109.12 - - [01/Aug/2015:05:12:36 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 29152 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)"
38.105.109.12 - - [01/Aug/2015:05:12:38 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 29151 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)"
38.105.109.12 - - [01/Aug/2015:05:12:39 -0500] "GET /wp-content/themes/arcade-basic/library/js/html5.js HTTP/1.1" 200 2734 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)"
38.105.109.12 - - [01/Aug/2015:05:12:39 -0500] "GET /wp-includes/js/wp-emoji-release.min.js?ver=4.2.3 HTTP/1.1" 200 14953 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)"
38.105.109.12 - - [01/Aug/2015:05:12:39 -0500] "GET /wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.11.2 HTTP/1.1" 200 96260 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)"
38.105.109.12 - - [01/Aug/2015:05:12:40 -0500] "GET /wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery-migrate.min.js?ver=1.2.1 HTTP/1.1" 200 7506 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)"
38.105.109.12 - - [01/Aug/2015:05:12:40 -0500] "GET /wp-content/themes/arcade-basic/library/js/bootstrap.min.js?ver=3.0.3 HTTP/1.1" 200 6980 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)"
38.105.109.12 - - [01/Aug/2015:05:12:40 -0500] "GET /wp-content/themes/arcade-basic/library/js/fillsize.js?ver=4.2.3 HTTP/1.1" 200 2576 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)"
38.105.109.12 - - [01/Aug/2015:05:12:40 -0500] "GET /wp-content/themes/arcade-basic/library/js/jquery.arctext.js?ver=4.2.3 HTTP/1.1" 200 10612 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)"
38.105.109.12 - - [01/Aug/2015:05:12:40 -0500] "GET /wp-content/themes/arcade-basic/library/js/theme.js?ver=4.2.3 HTTP/1.1" 200 3052 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)"
64.69.91.210 - - [01/Aug/2015:06:02:54 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 29128 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
192.187.110.98 - - [01/Aug/2015:06:54:53 -0500] "GET http://testp2.czar.bielawa.pl/testproxy.php HTTP/1.1" 404 356 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0"
141.212.122.59 - - [01/Aug/2015:07:56:56 -0500] "CONNECT proxytest.zmap.io:80 HTTP/1.1" 200 27778 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 zgrab/0.x"
141.212.122.59 - - [01/Aug/2015:07:56:57 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 30504 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 zgrab/0.x"
104.238.194.164 - - [01/Aug/2015:09:32:09 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 29153 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0)"
46.172.71.251 - - [01/Aug/2015:12:12:51 -0500] "GET /rom-0 HTTP/1.1" 404 367 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
error.log
[Sat Aug 01 06:54:53.947240 2015] [:error] [pid 4035] [client 192.187.110.98:56439] script '/srv/wp-anarchoanthro/testproxy.php' not found or unable to stat
[Sat Aug 01 11:23:56.393436 2015] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 3918] AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Sat Aug 01 11:23:57.476298 2015] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 4943] AH00163: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.5.9-1ubuntu4.11 OpenSSL/1.0.1f configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sat Aug 01 11:23:57.476333 2015] [core:notice] [pid 4943] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
[Sat Aug 01 12:30:02.492747 2015] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 4943] AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Sat Aug 01 12:30:03.513348 2015] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 5037] AH00163: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.5.9-1ubuntu4.11 OpenSSL/1.0.1f configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sat Aug 01 12:30:03.513384 2015] [core:notice] [pid 5037] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
other_vhosts_access.log
127.0.1.1:80 216.218.206.68 - - [01/Aug/2015:01:31:36 -0500] "\x16\x03\x01" 400 0 "-" "-"
127.0.1.1:80 141.212.122.42 - - [01/Aug/2015:03:15:26 -0500] "\x16\x03\x01" 400 0 "-" "-"
127.0.1.1:80 65.31.172.201 - - [01/Aug/2015:06:20:06 -0500] "\x80F\x01\x03\x01" 400 0 "-" "-"
127.0.1.1:80 50.77.106.104 - - [01/Aug/2015:06:44:22 -0500] "\x80F\x01\x03\x01" 400 0 "-" "-"
127.0.1.1:80 71.174.188.128 - - [01/Aug/2015:07:29:10 -0500] "\x80F\x01\x03\x01" 400 0 "-" "-"
127.0.1.1:80 98.251.14.214 - - [01/Aug/2015:09:31:43 -0500] "\x80F\x01\x03\x01" 400 0 "-" "-"
127.0.1.1:80 89.248.171.137 - - [01/Aug/2015:10:22:04 -0500] "\x16\x03\x01" 400 0 "-" "-"
anarchoanthro.com:80 177.206.182.186 - - [01/Aug/2015:12:08:54 -0500] "\x80F\x01\x03\x01" 400 0 "-" "-"
Result of route command
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
default 10.0.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
10.0.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
http://localhostinto your Address Bar, from the Apache Server Machine? – eyoung100 Aug 3 '15 at 17:46