I'm using a Ubuntu 17.04 workstation, but that's irrelevant. I'm in the Chrome browser.
I've tried twice to post to the forum called "Help! (Home for newbies)". I'm not sure if it's because of a character choice in my topic's subject line, or maybe I'm an idiot and it's a moderated forum where there's a natural delay between posting and the post's appearance. While creating the first post, I did a preview and saw exactly what I expected, so I clicked save and walked away. I think I remember a success status message at the top of the page. About 8 hours later I looked to see if I got any responses, and couldn't find my post via any search tools on the forums.
Just this hour, I tried to re-post my content. I was able to browse backward to my original post in the editor from a day ago. In a new browser tab for https://www.virtualmin.com/node/add/forum/281, I copied in my content from the stale page. I edited the body slightly and clicked save. I definitely saw the full standard success message on the post-post landing page. Still, their's no result. I only wonder if it's my use of a dollar-sign in the subject line.
Subject = "I need a best practice suggestions related to my FQDN for my server that's also the Postfix $mydestination" Body = "So I have a few URL's of my own. Let's call AllSites.com my main one that I named my Ubuntu 16.04 server with. After getting Virtualmin up and running, do I immediately create a new virtual server for AllSites.com? That seems wrong to me because admin@allsites.com isn't a virtual mail account, it's a real Unix account. My instinct is to make a default server in Apache for HTTP and HTTPS which represents any outside request for AllSites.com. I can see after putting on my first virtual server via the Virtualmin interface, say FirstCoolSite.com, that entries went into BIND which I never did in the past when just using Webmin to host all of my sites. Also, any new attempt to browse to AllSites.com after the addition of FirstCoolSite.com will display FirstCoolSite.com because Virtualmin didn't automatically assume that AllSites.com was the default Apache virtual host.
I envision my AllSites.com to be a place where badly formed URL's for a Virtualmin virtual server will render a page that shows good links to the other sites I do host helping the person to get to the right place for browsing.
So where is the link to best practices regarding this matter? I would like to do things the Webmin/Virtualmin way to avoid any snares of my own "cleverness" in the future."
Comments
Submitted by andreychek on Mon, 12/11/2017 - 11:15 Comment #1
Howdy -- sorry about that!
It looks like it triggered the anti-spam protection, and was also overlooked by the moderator.
You should be able to see it here now:
https://www.virtualmin.com/node/54637
Thank you very much.
I got shut down again in the forum. Somebody posted 4 replies telling me I was an idiot. I replied to each individually, then wrote a clarification post which was held for review. Later I saw meaningful replies and when trying to respond I got a captcha type challenge, THAT I TYPED PERFECTLY, but it said I failed the challenge, so now I'm blocked again. Very disheartening.
Submitted by andreychek on Tue, 12/12/2017 - 13:27 Comment #4
While I don't see anyone calling you an idiot there, some community members aren't very good at choosing their words well :-)
I'd follow Joe's response, he's a member of the Virtualmin staff and is attempting to provide you with some help there.
Sorry, it does look like one of your comments was flagged as spam though, it should now be published.
If you ever have a post that's moderated, it will typically be handled, though feel free to let us know if it's not.
Thank you. I did notice that a lot of helpful comments came in after I was locked out.