After googling around for cases similar to mine, and asking Dreamhost about wildcard DNS, I think my problem is that wildcard dns was not enabled.
After this little adventure with APE, and reading up on other comet implementations...I think I will be going back to node.js/socket.io (was mucking around with them before I tried out comet). Having tried both, I think there is more support and a larger community for node/socket than for the various comet servers. Thanks for your help and advice. I hope I am not making a mistake giving up comet for websockets? On Apr 24, 10:51 pm, Pablo Tejada <[email protected]> wrote: > When i first started my search for a comet server i notice must were > java based, memory hogs. CometD seem to be a popular favorite. > Lighthttpd seems like a good comercial solution, not sure about their > support though. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Apr 24, 2012, at 5:14 PM, Orthonormal <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I have a feeling I need to contact Dreamhost support to allow wildcard > > DNS on my VPS. > > > Or maybe I should abandon APE and try a comet server that is easier to > > work with for newbies? :p > > > Since this is a commercial project, I don't mind paying for a > > commercial comet server with support. Any good ones to recommend? > > > On Apr 24, 10:05 pm, Orthonormal <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Am I right to assume that for "0.bob.dreamhosters.com:443" to work, > >> Dreamhost has to allow "wildcard DNS"? > > >> Based on their support article (http://wiki.dreamhost.com/ > >> Wildcard_DNS), I might have to contact them to allow wildcard DNS. Is > >> this a likely solution? > > >> On Apr 24, 9:55 pm, Pablo Tejada <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>> Is a server misconfiguration for sure, you should keep testing with > >>> static content. > > >>> Is weird they recommend to bind it to the 443 port, isn't that the HTTPS > >>> port? > > >>> Sent from my iPhone > > >>> On Apr 24, 2012, at 4:46 PM, Orthonormal <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>>> Nope. I get: "Oops! Google Chrome could not find > >>>> 0.bob.dreamhosters.com:443" (using chrome) > > >>>> On Apr 24, 9:43 pm, Louis Charette <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>> You said that if you go to "http://bob.dreamhosters.com:443/"; you get > >>>>> the "APE Server No command given" message. Do you have the same message > >>>>> when you type ":http://0.bob.dreamhosters.com:443"; in your browser? > > >>>>> - Louis > > >>>>> Le 2012-04-24 à 16:40, Orthonormal a écrit : > > >>>>>> Still doesn't work! Same error message. My virtualhost looks like > >>>>>> this: > > >>>>>> <VirtualHost *> > > >>>>>> Servername bob.dreamhosters.com > >>>>>> ServerAlias ape.bob.dreamhosters.com > >>>>>> ServerAlias *.bob.dreamhosters.com > > >>>>>> DocumentRoot "/home/alice/www" > > >>>>>> </VirtualHost> > > >>>>>> On Apr 24, 9:26 pm, Louis Charette <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>>>> If you have access to SSH, you can also restart apache2 instead of > >>>>>>> rebooting the whole server for the virtualhost setting to update. > > >>>>>>> - Louis > > >>>>>>> Le 2012-04-24 à 16:25, Orthonormal a écrit : > > >>>>>>>> Ok I tried Pablo's virtualhost and it didn't work. Same error > >>>>>>>> message. > > >>>>>>>> AFK for 30-45 mins. Then trying Louis' method and change ServerAlias > >>>>>>>> to *.bob.dreamhosters.com. Wish me luck lol. > > >>>>>>>> On Apr 24, 8:57 pm, Louis Charette <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>>>>>>> When I go to:http://bob.dreamhosters.com:443/, it says "APE Server > >>>>>>>>>> No > >>>>>>>>>> command given.". So I assume the server is running fine? > > >>>>>>>>> Yes it does. > > >>>>>>>>> The test did find the server, but didn't find the frequency thing > >>>>>>>>> because the wildcard is binded to "ape.bob.dremhosters.com" instead > >>>>>>>>> of "bob.dreamhosters.com". Since he specified the port in config.js > >>>>>>>>> he should be fined and it should work after an apache reboot. > > >>>>>>>>> - Louis > > >>>>>>>>> Le 2012-04-24 à 15:53, Pablo Tejada a écrit : > > >>>>>>>>>> The problem is your virtual host, the default port is 80 i guess > >>>>>>>>>> and you binded the APE server in 443. Try this virtual host > >>>>>>>>>> configuration, no sure if it will do the trick though: > >>>>>>>>>> <VirtualHost *> > >>>>>>>>>> Servername bob.dreamhosters.com > > >>>>>>>>>> DocumentRoot "/home/alice/www" > >>>>>>>>>> </VirtualHost> > >>>>>>>>>> <VirtualHost *:443> > >>>>>>>>>> Servername ape.bob.dreamhosters.com > >>>>>>>>>> ServerAlias *.ape.bob.dreamhosters.com > >>>>>>>>>> </VirtualHost> > > >>>>>>>>>> Sent from my iPhone > > >>>>>>>>>> On Apr 24, 2012, at 3:28 PM, Louis Charette > >>>>>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>>>>>>>>>> Change > > >>>>>>>>>>>>> ServerAlias *.ape.bob.dreamhosters.com > > >>>>>>>>>>> to this > > >>>>>>>>>>>>> ServerAlias *.bob.dreamhosters.com > > >>>>>>>>>>> - Louis > > >>>>>>>>>>> Le 2012-04-24 à 15:22, Orthonormal a écrit : > > >>>>>>>>>>>> I did this. And the check ran. But I got: > > >>>>>>>>>>>> "Can't contact APE Server. Please check the folowing url is > >>>>>>>>>>>> pointing > >>>>>>>>>>>> to your APE server :http://0.bob.dreamhosters.com:443"; > > >>>>>>>>>>>> On Apr 24, 8:00 pm, Louis Charette <[email protected]> > >>>>>>>>>>>> wrote: > >>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi there, > > >>>>>>>>>>>>> The "APE_JSF" folder should be uploaded on the website you want > >>>>>>>>>>>>> to use Ape on directly. > > >>>>>>>>>>>>> - Louis > > >>>>>>>>>>>>> Le 2012-04-24 à 14:57, Orthonormal a écrit : > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> I signed up for VPS from Dreamhost, and is trying to set up > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> APE by > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> following the tutorial. Which step did I go wrong? Did I leave > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> out any > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> step? > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> 1) It says: > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> "If you are using APE in tandem with a web server which is > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> already > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> bound on port 80 (such as Apache), you don't have to edit > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> anything. > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> APE is configured to run on port 6969 by default. > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> You can jump to Run your APE Server." > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> However, I changed my ape.conf so that "port = 443" instead > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> because > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> dreamhost recommends that we bind on port 443. > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> 2) Went to the /bin/ folder and ran "aped". I get the APE > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Engine logo > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> and it says bind on port 443. So no problem there. > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> 3) Edited the httpd.conf file to include these: > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> <VirtualHost *> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Servername bob.dreamhosters.com > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> ServerAlias ape.bob.dreamhosters.com > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> ServerAlias *.ape.bob.dreamhosters.com > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> DocumentRoot "/home/alice/APE_JSF" > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> </VirtualHost> > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Not using the actual names but assuming my admin user name is > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> "alice", > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> and my dreamhost domain is bob.dreamhosters.com. > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> 4) Edited Demos/config.js to be: > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> APE.Config.baseUrl = 'http://bob.dreamhosters.com/APE_JSF'; > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> APE.Config.domain = 'bob.dreamhosters.com'; > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> APE.Config.server = 'ape.bob.dreamhosters.com:443'; > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> 5) Finally, I went > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> tohttp://bob.dreamhosters.com/APE_JSF/Tools/Check/ > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> but got a 404 error. 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