silentace

Got a couple questions if anyone can help that would be awsome.

First off i figure the DNS problem was just time needed to propogate and such but its still around, server has been set up now for like a week or two.

The server was unable to lookup an an A entry for its hostname (silentace.justanothermiller.com). This is generally because the entry was never added. However this could also be the result of your nameserver(s) being down. If you would like to attempt to automaticlly add the entry, [CLICK HERE].

I have tried the click here option, and it pulls the main IP number and does the entry but it never goes anywhere after that, it updates but still get the error a week later.

Second problem is, not really a problem but how do i get to the root directory, what i am planning on doing is setting up a ventrillo server and i need to put the files in the root dir so that i can just use the server ip as the address for the server. New to all this, and i tried searching already for "root directory" and also just root, looking for other posts that could possibly help. Last resort is this post, guess next step is opening a ticket.

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David

I used to get that before and it somehow worked itself out I think. Or it might be one of those starter bugs that Eman fixed for me. I can't remember now. I know it pops up again occassionally but seems to fix itself. I would suggest putting in a ticket.

I use Putty and WinSCP to connect to my server, so using WinSCP to get to directories is basically like using FTP. As for putty, when you login with root you're in "root's directory", but if you mean the absolute bottom than just type in

cd /

and you should be in the bottom.

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silentace

i use putty already and i can modify root items all i want, but i need to upload a tar file and i don't know how to get to the root directory through ftp. i try root as username and the same password i use to login as root on putty but it doesn't work

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mr_fern

If you can ssh into your server using silentace.justanothermiller.com, then the DNS entry exists. Sometimes WHM acts up.

As for FTPing into root, I believe the FTP is not configured for root logins.

If the tar file you need to upload to your server is something you downloaded online, maybe you should use wget on the server instead.

I use wget to download remote files to the server instead of downloading to my computer and then uploading to my server.

example:
rootsilentace [~]# wget http://sourceforge-mirror.someschool...m-1.4.2.tar.gz

That will download the file to your server. Then you can untar, ungzip, etc, etc.

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David

Fern, how would you wget a whole directory? All contents of it as well.

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mr_fern

wget can work recursively for HTTP and FTP.
Over FTP it will download each file in the directory specified.
Over HTTP it can parse an HTML document and follow the links to download the files referenced.
There's a default max depth of 5, but you can modify that with the -l option.

wget -r ftp://somesite.com/files_folder/
That will get all the files from somesite.com, the ftp folder files_folder, upto 5 levels deep. i.e. files_folder/sub1/sub2/sub3/sub4/sub5, files in sub1, sub2, sub3, sub4, and sub5 would be downloaded. If sub5 had a folder sub6, it wouldn't be included in the download, but files inside sub5 would be. That goes for each sub folder within files_folder.

More Info: http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/man...rsive-Download

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David

Well, what I was going for was basically copying a website. Like for instance, recently I had to move a site from a CIHost server which used Monster Controls, to mine. I figured I could just wget the site, but that didn't work out so well. I forget the method I tried before though.

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Emmanuel

Make sure there is an account justanothermiller.com in your server AND it is using the dns of your server. then follow the steps it says and click on where it says to add it

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silentace

is there a way to set up root ftp access? just curious, wget should work for now but wondering if somewhere down the road i can't do that (i guess if anything i could upload to one of my sites then wget it to the root)

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