Offline

iSpecies was off-line for a few hours today. I moved it from a local folder in my user folder to the /Library/Server folder on the web server, and associated ispecies.org with it's own IP address (although it is still served from the same machine). Glasgow University's DNS seems takes a while to update, so consequently the site appeared to be broken. A quick external check using Network-Tools.com confirmed that ispecies.org had the new IP address, but locally it was still resolving to the holding page of 123-reg, with whom I registered the domain. By fussing with the VirtualHost directive in the Apache httpd.conf file, I managed to get it working again.

NameVirtualHost 130.209.46.63
<VirtualHost 130.209.46.63>   
   DocumentRoot "/Library/WebServer/ispecies"
   ServerName ispecies.org
   ServerSignature email
   DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm index.shtml
   LogLevel warn
   HostNameLookups off
   <Directory "/Library/WebServer/ispecies">
      allow from all
      Options +Indexes
   </Directory>  
</VirtualHost> 

The only difference users may notice is that the URLs will now always start with http://ispecies.org.