I’m not sure if this belong in the Virtualmin forum, it might as well be in the Webmin forum.
My problem is that when I create a new virtual server, the web server doesn’t respond to requests. When I manually edit the virtualhost config and add the external IP to the VirtualHost directive, it works. I keep forgetting this, so I’d like to finally solve this little issue.
I think it might have to do with the configuration of the network of the server, because this is how it looks like:
root@web:~# ifconfig
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:23719234 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:23719234 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:7088484625 (7.0 GB) TX bytes:7088484625 (7.0 GB)
venet0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
inet addr:127.0.0.2 P-t-P:127.0.0.2 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.255.255
inet6 addr: 2a…28 Scope:Global
----8<— more ipv6, cut ------>8-----
UP BROADCAST POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:290521047 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:334080304 errors:0 dropped:2 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:123258264808 (123.2 GB) TX bytes:246640703055 (246.6 GB)
venet0:0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
inet addr:5.1.99.999 P-t-P:5.1.90.104 Bcast:5.1.90.104 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP BROADCAST POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1
So vnet0:0 had my public ip (which I changed in this example).
In my virtualmin, 127.0.0.2 keeps coming back though, so maybe this is an issue.
Also I’m not sure if the IP should be added to the virtualhost directive, if I want to use let’s encrypt?
So an other solution would be to change the template which is generated when I create a new virtual server. I can’t seem to find where I should do this though, and I feel this is most likely not the right path to take.