how to preview a domain not pointed yet to sentora?

[wormsunited]

Hi there.

I search on this forum for this topic but there is none. Here is my question. How can we preview a domain name that is not pointed yet to our sentora control panel but is created inside of it. That's one of the things i can use on other control panels. Is there any way to look in to a TLD this way?

Thanks in advance!

[Ron-e]

You mean this??
Also check this topic on DNS-less previews.

[wormsunited]

@Ron-e,

Yeah that is perfect! Great solution. Thanks a lot!

[wormsunited]

@Ron-e,

I get a 404... Is there any way to show a public link such as this for example?
http://123.456.78.9/~user/domain_net/

I need a public preview for the domain name in question.

Thanks in advance

[Ron-e]

About the 404:
What did you add as custom Vhost?
Which CentOs version do you use 6/7?

[wormsunited]

@Ron-e,

Thanks for your help, i am using CentOs 6 (minimal version) and i have not added nothing as custom Vhost.

[Ron-e]

In Sentora go to "Server Admin" > "Module Admin" > "Apache Config" and copy&paste the code below in "Global Sentora Entry".
Select "Force Update" at the bottom and save.
Run the daemon manually (php -q /etc/sentora/panel/bin/daemon.php) to speed things up.
And it should work, hopefully.

Code:

</virtualhost>

# Add Alias for DNS-Less Previews
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
    DocumentRoot "/var/sentora/hostdata"
    php_admin_value suhosin.executor.func.blacklist "passthru, show_source, shell_exec, system, pcntl_exec, popen, pclose, proc_open, proc_nice, proc_terminate, proc_get_status, proc_close, leak, apache_child_terminate, posix_kill, posix_mkfifo, posix_setpgid, posix_setsid, posix_setuid, escapeshellcmd, escapeshellarg, exec"
    AliasMatch ^/~([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/?(.*) /var/sentora/hostdata/$1/public_html/$2
    <Directory /var/sentora/hostdata>
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Order Allow,Deny
        Allow from all
        DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php index.asp index.aspx index.jsp index.jspa index.shtml index.shtm
        <IfModule mod_php5.c>
            AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
            php_flag magic_quotes_gpc Off
            php_flag track_vars On
            php_flag register_globals Off
            php_admin_value upload_tmp_dir /var/sentora/temp
        </IfModule>
    </Directory>

Replace xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx with your server ip.

[Ron-e]

New version with open_basedir which is more secure..

Code:

</virtualhost>

# Add Alias for DNS-Less Previews
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
    DocumentRoot "/var/sentora/hostdata"
    php_admin_value open_basedir "/var/sentora/hostdata:/var/sentora/temp/"
    php_admin_value suhosin.executor.func.blacklist "passthru, show_source, shell_exec, system, pcntl_exec, popen, pclose, proc_open, proc_nice, proc_terminate, proc_get_status, proc_close, leak, apache_child_terminate, posix_kill, posix_mkfifo, posix_setpgid, posix_setsid, posix_setuid, escapeshellcmd, escapeshellarg, exec"
    AliasMatch ^/~([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/?(.*) /var/sentora/hostdata/$1/public_html/$2
    <Directory /var/sentora/hostdata>
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Order Allow,Deny
        Allow from all
        DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php index.asp index.aspx index.jsp index.jspa index.shtml index.shtm
        <IfModule mod_php5.c>
            AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
            php_flag magic_quotes_gpc Off
            php_flag track_vars On
            php_flag register_globals Off
            php_admin_value upload_tmp_dir /var/sentora/temp
        </IfModule>
    </Directory>

Replace xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx with your server ip.

[matheusmelo]

New version with open_basedir which is more secure..

Code:

</virtualhost>

# Add Alias for DNS-Less Previews
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
DocumentRoot "/var/sentora/hostdata"
php_admin_value open_basedir "/var/sentora/hostdata:/var/sentora/temp/"
php_admin_value suhosin.executor.func.blacklist "passthru, show_source, shell_exec, system, pcntl_exec, popen, pclose, proc_open, proc_nice, proc_terminate, proc_get_status, proc_close, leak, apache_child_terminate, posix_kill, posix_mkfifo, posix_setpgid, posix_setsid, posix_setuid, escapeshellcmd, escapeshellarg, exec"
AliasMatch ^/~([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/?(.*) /var/sentora/hostdata/$1/public_html/$2
<Directory /var/sentora/hostdata>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php index.asp index.aspx index.jsp index.jspa index.shtml index.shtm
<IfModule mod_php5.c>
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
php_flag magic_quotes_gpc Off
php_flag track_vars On
php_flag register_globals Off
php_admin_value upload_tmp_dir /var/sentora/temp
</IfModule>
</Directory>

Replace xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx with your server ip.

[wormsunited]

Guys thank you so much it works perfectly i am really happy now!