Pre-install noob questions (CMM and VPS)

Your are the best, sir!

I dont know what you mean with a valid DNS entry. This install I didnt touch anything, so it is easier to exclude other possibilities. I just did what I listed 1 message ago.

And now with this:

Code:

https://ipaddressofserver/22076_mysqladmin874

It works!!!!!!


Your getting started guide step 1: 1. Setup the default server hostname Nginx vhost.
This I skipped because there you explain how to change the server hostname but I didnt want to change it and leave it like I have it. So that was the mistake? Should I go through step 1 or what?
You say there:

And mine returned the correct one I told my host. So I skipped step 1.

I am so sorry that I have noob problems, really. Maybe I could have thought by myself to try out the ip instead of the server name. Thanks.

 

So from what I understand, I must add to the virtual.conf file this:
server_name hostname.newdomain.com

I use CloudFlare as DNS, so add there a Type A DNS, and point in my domain registrar (namecheap) to the nameservers of CloudFlare, right?

Because if this is all, in my first install everything was like this. And it didnt work. At the moment, still it doesnt work (but I must say that my registrar points at the moment to my old server, I changed it back today for accessing my forum). It is strange.

And thanks for the note.

 

Can you check and tell me if these steps are correct and in correct order for restoring my forum?

1. Move stuff to /home/nginx/domains/mydomain.com/public
2. Give folders data and internal_data full rights 777.
3. Create a user in myphpadmin with full rights.
4. Create a database in myphpadmin.
5. Link the database to the created user.
6. Import/restore your old database to this newly created database.
7. Edit config.php file of Xenforo, which looks like this:

Code:

<?php

$config['db']['host'] = 'localhost';
$config['db']['port'] = '3306';
$config['db']['username'] = 'database_username';
$config['db']['password'] = 'database_username_password';
$config['db']['dbname'] = 'database_name';
$config['debug'] = false;
// $config['enableListeners'] = false;

$config['superAdmins'] = '1';

So, is this correct? And Also is the port number correct? How do I know which port number?

I did this and I am getting an "unexpected database error" all the time.

 

Man, thank you soo much. I figured out everything now.
I even dont use phpmyadmin, instead of I use your mysqladmin_shell.sh

I was just confused about this database, msql stuff, but now I figured it out. My forum is almost working, just one problem with nginx is left, see this thread. Wow, I am finally so happy. Thank you sooo much!

 

Hey,
me again. That worked a while ago but now I have a problem.

I have to install myphpadmin (want to check some database tables), just I can't get it to work. It installs but I can't connect to it at all.
I assume that the installation is not correct. I get this:

First, why does it try to acess the demodomain directory, which I deleted from the server, instead of my working domain directory?
Second, why does it try to access to the localhost_ssl file which I don't have it at all?
The rest of the phpmyadmin log file looks normal. I get my access details and so on. But I can't access it as I said.

 

I hope this is what you asked for. Put every .conf file I have and the install log for phpmyadmin.

demodomain.com.conf

 

Did you have time to check this?

 

Yeah, I forgot to delete it. But I didn't want to remove it after you asked for the conf files. Because maybe that could be the problem. I will delete it now.
And I really appreciate your helping. I still can't figure it out that you helping some noobs like me while handling big daddy stuff with big clients.

One question. Could it be te problem that I used your mysqladmin_shell script for creating a database and restoring my files? Maybe the server sees somehow a problem to install phpmyadmin over that? I don't know. I am a helpless noob who runs a VPS server thanks to you.
But it is just a software, it makes no sense.
Hmm, maybe because I run DNS through Cloudflare and it doesn't accept my ip address?
I still don't know why it doesn't accept server.mydomain.com. We figured out that replacing it with my ip address it works but normally it also should work with that way. I don't know. I will try again installing it. Maybe deleting that conf file will help.

But maybe you can tell me, after you have finished your work and have time, why I get these errors from above.
Maybe something to do with:
wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/centminmod/phpmyadmin/raw/master/phpmyadmin.sh
So it installs a newest version for that I need ssl-certificate?

 

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boom I am in. deleting demodomain.conf solved it.
I am speechless. Sorry for stealing your time. I will slap myself for this.