torrentflux/dyndns problem

[peterb518]

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Hey everyone,

As you can tell I'm new to the forums. I recently got an old computer that I decided to turn into an ubuntu server. So I've got everything up and running. Basically what I want to do with this is create a server in which I can access torrentflux anywhere. I've installed torrentflux and had it working at one point, but now every time I go to my IP nothing loads. Also, I'm trying to use a DNS from dyndns.org. That previously worked as well. I went to a friends house to show him how it worked, and when I got there I typed my address into the browser and nothing happened. I figured it might be something to do with me not being on my home network or ports not being open. So I went home and reconfigured all of that, and also set myself up with a static IP (on the network) so the port forwarding would work. Still nothing. I did not restart the server in this period either.

Also, I've got Hamachi up and running, and am wondering if there would be a better way to set this up through that, if anyone has any experience with that.


Thanks for your help.

[osjak]

peterb518, by saying "nothing happened" do you mean you got an error, or a white screen or else? Can you reach (ping) your server from outside, using DynDNS domain name?

[peterb518]

Sorry I wasn't very specific.

I've reformatted my question: If I wanted to do what I previously stated, would it be better to have the ddclient use ham0 (hamachi) as the interface, or have it get my public IP and use that for the DNS. I am behind a router and don't know if that will complicate things.

[peterb518]

Also: Is there a way to check if torrentflux is running? I'm fairly new at linux (I only dabbled in it a few years ago and that was with a GUI) and have no experience with apache/mysql, and i'm reading that both are needed for torrentflux. I had it working at one point--like I said--and I'm just confused why it would stop working when I didn't change any settings.

[osjak]

You can check if Torrentflux is running by pointing your server browser to "http://localhost", assuming you installed Torrentflux into web server root directory. If not, then add that directoiry to the path ("http://localhost/tf_directory_here").

I'm not familiar with hamachi, so I can not advise on it. You can do everything you specified by using DynDNS. You need to make sure your ddclient records your public IP to your DynDNS account, otherwise you will not be able to reach your server from outside. And, as you already pointed out, youe port forward needs to be set up correctly, but sounds like you have done that.

There's no need for using hamachi, you can just use your regular interface. If you have to use hamachi for some reason, then you should probably read the docs, or wait for someone with hamachi experience to answer your question.

[peterb518]

Alright, I bring news. I can connect to torrentflux using the hamachi IP, however, localhost does nothing. I've followed instructions here (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=268985) and can't connect to localhost.

[osjak]

peterb518, please be specific when you describe an error. What does "does nothing" mean? Did you get an error?

I wonder if hamachi messed with the loopback interface. Please post the output of the following commands:

ifconfig
cat /etc/hosts

[peterb518]

Sorry, I mean I can't connect to localhost. It displays the "Cannot find this page" in firefox. I've opened both ports 80 and 8080 and edited the apache.conf to listen on those ports.

I'm at work right now, but when I get home I'll get those outputs done.

[peterb518]

ifconfig

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:ca:4d:d6:44
inet addr:192.168.1.77 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::240:caff:fe4d:d644/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6401365 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5099256 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2067626056 (1.9 GB) TX bytes:422181120 (402.6 MB)
Interrupt:16 Base address:0xd800

ham0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:ff:41:5e:19:55
inet addr:5.230.43.237 Bcast:5.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1200 Metric:1
RX packets:3763 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3065 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:500
RX bytes:615991 (601.5 KB) TX bytes:1518429 (1.4 MB)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:2583 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2583 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:211836 (206.8 KB) TX bytes:211836 (206.8 KB)


cat /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 pubuntu.roc.mn.charter.com pubuntu

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

[osjak]

localhost config looks just fine. You said you tested your site in Firefox. I want to make sure you run tests from your server, not from another machine, right? Otherwise you have to access it via "http://192.168.1.77" because your other machine will have its own "localhost" and therefore would not find your site.

So you should make a port 80 forward from your router to 192.168.1.77. And make sure your virtual host listens to all IP's, not just hamachi.

[peterb518]

I think my ISP is blocking port 80, because its clear on my router. Also I managed to set up a ventrilo server and people can connect through my public IP so I think the problem lies within the apache ports. I thought I changed it to use port 8080, but could you explain what I need to do to make sure?

[osjak]

I think my ISP is blocking port 80, because its clear on my router. Also I managed to set up a ventrilo server and people can connect through my public IP so I think the problem lies within the apache ports. I thought I changed it to use port 8080, but could you explain what I need to do to make sure?
You change the listening port in /etc/apache2/ports.conf:
Listen 8080
and change ports in your virtual host config files:

NameVirtualHost *:8080

<VirtualHost *:8080>
DocumentRoot /www/example1
ServerName www.example.com

# Other directives here

</VirtualHost>
And restart Apache after that.