Complex world vmware, pfSense, DDNS, Virtualmin

Hi! I’m going to just jump in here and hopefully someone can point me in the correct direction. Here is the question first. I have 2 virtual servers, but only one works from the internet. The second one shows the “hello world” from the first.

This is the configuration:

Centurylink gig fiber - without a static IP address
vmware ESXi version 6.7

hosting

pfSense 2.4.5-RELEASE-p1
Debian version 10 (Buster) with Virtualmin 6.12 all packages are up to date

Virtualmin is in the DMZ and all traffic is routed using pfSense. I am doing NAT forwarding on ports 80 and 443.
I have Dynamic DNS working on pfSense and have forced the external Virtualmin IP address to match the current IP assigned by my ISP.

I have setup 2 virtual servers server-1.com and server-2.com. Each server is setup with its own “hello world” index.html. When I click on the preview button the pages display as expected. The servers are configured with the correct IP on my registrar. (NameCheap)

I had all of this working, but I’ve moved and thought it a good idea to rebuild the whole thing from scratch using the current versions of all the software

And now the question/problem stated another way:
Coming in from the internet server-1.com works as expected, But, server-2.com does not and shows the “hello world” from server-1.com. Where is the best place to look for the problem?

Thanks!

The problem has been resolved. It was an id10t error. I had misconfigured the second server as server-2 without the .com ending. I won’t say how long I spent looking at everything under the sun . . . Why is it I can read the same thing a 100 times and just fill in the blanks without seeing the obvious problem?

So now I’ll just add this id10t award :trophy: to my ever growing pile and move on with the project.

Thanks

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I find I still commit a lot of PEBKAC errors, so don’t feel bad.

Richard

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