not able to see my site running after installing review board on VM (Debian 11)

[mlebon]

Hi All,

I was trying to install a review board on my VM (Debian OS) for a test. 

I configured MySQL along with APACHE2 and went ahead with installation of review board using usual instructions given at 
https://www.reviewboard.org/docs/manual/dev/admin/installation/linux/
https://www.reviewboard.org/docs/manual/dev/admin/installation/creating-sites/
https://www.reviewboard.org/get/instructions/?org-type=business&product=rb&os=linux-deb&support-level=free
and additionally
https://www.vultr.com/docs/install-review-board-on-ubuntu-20-04/
https://www.vultr.com/docs/install-linux-apache-mysql-and-php-lamp-on-ubuntu-20-04-lts/

One completed i created a new review board site following the steps given here :
https://www.reviewboard.org/docs/manual/dev/admin/installation/creating-sites/
I got a successful message that "the site has been installed in /var/www/<domainname>" . I gave the required permissions to apache server to access the data at:

• /var/www/<domainname>/htdocs/media/uploaded

• /var/www/<domainname>/htdocs/media/ext

• /var/www/<domainname>/htdocs/static/ext

• /var/www/<domainname>/data

with cmd : $ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/example.com

I favored the python3 packages.

but still i am not able to see my site running or even ping it.
I tried pinging it but its not accessible ping <domainname> as well as ping <domainname>:8080 gives "ping: unknown host"

to solve the ServerName problem, I added in the /etc/apache2/apache2.conf file; next line ServerName 127.0.0.1

The rest of the problem must come from the DNS declaration I tried to follow the advice on the following pages without success:
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/vhosts/name-based.html
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/vhosts/ip-based.html

Any help how can i check if my site is up and running.

Discussion similar to mine https://groups.google.com/g/reviewboard/c/WZKOa3gGnsY/m/Ak7qAtIwBwAJ

[mlebon]

I got help internally, adding the declaration of the <domainname> in /etc/hosts solved the problem. I have access to the site.

well I cannot continue the configuration because the admin password mode is not the one I noted, I take the previous snapshot to check if I have noted all of them correctly for the installation

[Christian Hammond]

Hi,

Sorry for the wait.. We've been in crunch mode trying to get 5.0 beta 1 out.

You can use the following command line tool to change a password if you're locked out:

    rb-site manage /var/www/<domainname> changepassword <username>

If you need to create a new administrator account:

    rb-site manage /var/www/<domainname> createsuperuser

For the domain, yeah, it has to be something either registered in a DNS entry somewhere or in /etc/hosts. If it's in /etc/hosts, only you can access it, though.

Hope that helps!

Christian

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