[kwlug-disc] Drupal multi-site + Firefox = chaos & confusion

[Bob Jonkman]

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Can't help with the Drupal stuff, but:

> When I point Firefox at the server (on my subnet), I get my dd-wrt 
> router's status page, despite port-forwarding enabled.

I'll bet you have the port-forwarding enabled on the router. That
means that any traffic that passes through the router WAN->LAN will
get port-forwarded. But when you try to access your server from the
LAN, if it reaches the router at all it's LAN->WAN, and so doesn't get
port-forwarded.

The trick is to make sure the host at domain name you're using on the
router resolves to the WAN address. I'll bet that either 1) the server
resolves its own name (hosts file? server.conf?) directly to the
router,  or 2) your own computer resolves the server hostname to the
WAN IP address, so its traffic is routed LAN->WAN->LAN and so gets
port-forwarded.

- --Bob.


On 2017-12-15 06:05 PM, Ronald Barnes wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I've restored a Drupal7 multi-site setup from old backups (Ubuntu 
> server 16.04 and downgraded to PHP 5.6).
> 
> When I point Firefox at the server (on my subnet), I get my dd-wrt
>  router's status page, despite port-forwarding enabled.
> 
> Spent hours looking into this, no idea why.
> 
> 
> I ended up wget-ing one site from the server (changing the 
> /etc/hosts file so domain pointed to localhost) and copying those 
> over.
> 
> 
> Then I accidentally ran wget on my computer (not server) and it 
> ran... pulled down lots of resources.
> 
> Trying again in Firefox 57.0.1 on Kubuntu 16.04... dd-wrt status.
> 
> Tried in Chromium - got the Drupal sites.  Konquerer: got Drupal 
> sites.
> 
> 
> Tried to install a new site in the Drupal 7 setup using Firefox
> and ... it *worked*.  But still cannot load other 2 sites Drupal
> is hosting.
> 
> 
> I hope I've explained this mess enough that someone can either 
> suggest where to look for my problem, or at least commiserate on 
> the huge level of WTF that I'm experiencing.
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> r b
> 
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