[Koha] Installed new server can no longer access KOHA.

[Craig Butosi]

Hi Everyone,

" And stop telling people to disable the default site to make it work. It's bad practice"

Might I recommend that someone with experience in this area take a look at submitting an edit at http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_ubuntu_-_packages to include both Robin's concerns about disabling the default site, and expanding on the alternate way of solving the default "It Works!" page issue? I had no idea this issue could be fixed in the way suggested below. I rely on this Wiki page to get me through the installation process when I'm tinkering, as I'm sure may others do too.

I think what's perhaps come out of this thread is that this Wiki install guide needs some attention by an expert. ;D

FWIW.

Best to all,

Craig Butosi, MA, MLIS, B Mus (Hons.)
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THE ROYAL CONSERVATORY
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-----Original Message-----
From: Koha [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Robin Sheat
Sent: May-20-15 7:00 PM
To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: Re: [Koha] Installed new server can no longer access KOHA.

MJ Ray schreef op wo 20-05-2015 om 12:11 [+0100]:
> 418 These short instructions assume that the default site is
> 419 not needed.  Talk with your system administrator, network
> 420 administrator, or IT Department to CONFIRM THIS BEFORE RUNNING
> 421 the following command:
> 422     sudo a2dissite 000-default

This is not really good advice (though at least it has caveats), except in the case of doing IP-based addressing.

If you're doing virtual host-based addressing (which is normal), and you get the default "It works!" page, then you need to fix your configuration[0]. If removing the default site makes things work, then you're papering over a real issue and it's quite likely that relying on this will break when something changes in the future.

So, don't disable the default site just to make Koha work: fix your apache configuration for Koha instead. And stop telling people to disable the default site to make it work. It's bad practice[1].

http://i.imgur.com/V3hUcpX.png

Footnotes:

[0] In particular, you don't have a ServerName or ServerAlias parameter that matches the hostname that you're trying to use specified in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/library.conf

[1] Unless you're doing IP-based addressing, but you should only do that if you really have no other choice as expecting people to memorise IP addresses sucks.

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