Hi Graham,
Ahh ha, you're on to something and now it works! Google search is indexing
nuv2.com! Yea! When I signed up for hosting at GoDaddy I was looking for a
VPS with Apache (so I could use mod_wsgi) and a version 20 of Ubuntu
(version 18 didn't have full c++17 capabilities) and their only offering
came with .... Plesk. I recall reading that it sat on port 443 and used
port 7080 for Apache. I went into the Plesk panel and in the "Additional
directives for HTTPS" edit box inserted:
Alias /google6821620603f54cd0.html
/home/nuvroot/WWWsiteServer/static/content/google6821620603f54cd0.html
<Directory /home/nuvroot/WWWsiteServer/static/content>
Require all granted
</Directory>
The trouble with these user-friendly control panels is that they leave much
room for improvement. I have no idea where these lines went! Plesk creates
files included in other files and around and around one can go looking
instead of doing more productive stuff.
So now, waiting for google indexing, I'll tell my story, and ask a question.
Years ago Visual Studio introduced a website project using Python and
Flask. Having used Python for other reasons, and never having built a
website, that was a thumbs up for me and I created a new website project in
VS. Thirty seconds later I'm looking at my browser with "Hello World".
Thumbs and toes up! Then I noticed a "publish" button which I instantly
assumed that, when the time came, would in give-or-take multiples of thirty
seconds publish the website. Something to look forward to! Then that time
arrived last Nov 6. I assumed the automation to host would be on Azure,
naturally for VS to promote business on Azure. That's where I began, and a
week later my ears were pouring three letter acronyms. But I hadn't found a
thing about automation to host Python-flask. Like a dog with a bone I
headed into the 2nd week searching, then, my account at Azure got stuck. It
took two weeks for support to fix whatever happened, and during that time I
thought perhaps a different hosting company would have templates setup for
Python-Flask. So I got accounts at Network Solutions, Bluehost and GoDaddy.
Well, that took another week to understand what they had to offer -
WordPress and PHP and the capability of calling a Python function from
HTML, but, nothing about Python-Flask. During my searching I easily came
across your mod_wsgi, however, I was looking for the template and slide-in
solution, which at this point I don't think exists. Now there's probably
somebody out there who will respond with "did you look here..." and I'll be
red-faced at having spent 6 weeks to reach hosting. By now, Azure fixed my
account, and I went back there to continue, having decided to bite the
bullet and compile mod_wsgi. I sure didn't want to start with an empty VM
and have to install Apache also, so I found on the Azure marketplace an
offering of a VM with Apache. I got that and began my cheat sheet, now with
some 44 steps, to compile the correct version of Python, mod_wsgi, edits to
the .conf file etc. It worked, got "Hello Lisa" in my browser. That's when
I discovered Ubuntu 18 didn't have all the c++17 std lib functionality and
decided to go host on GoDaddy. With my cheat sheet in hand it only took a
few days to get my home page up. Yea! But I had issues with SSL and phoned
the VPS support line, got a great person who identified several issues and
fixed them. Before ending the call, I asked "I'm wondering how many
customers you have that have websites written in Python-Flask?" He replied,
"What was the last word?" "Flask" I said. "You're the first" to which I
replied the whole website is written in Python using Flask, take a look at
it. "That loaded fast" he said. "I'll have to look into that".
So what you've done with mod_wsgi is fantastic, and I still wonder how many
people use the configuration to host?
Well, I hope my story amuses enough to make up for the fumbling on my part!
Have a Merry Christmas and thanks,
Bob
On Friday, December 23, 2022 at 12:11:30 PM UTC-8 Graham Dumpleton wrote:
> Do note that those entries will only apply when you use:
>
> https://www.nuv2.com:7080/google6821620603f54cd0.html
> <https://www.nuv2.com/google6821620603f54cd0.html>
>
> with a port since you have it inside of a VirtualHost for that port.
>
> <VirtualHost *:7080>
>
> Graham
>
> On 24 Dec 2022, at 5:44 am, Bob Floyd <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> PPS If I remove the Alias for the google file from 000-default.conf the
> browser still loads the file at
> https://www.nuv2.com/static/content/google6821620603f54cd0.html so am I
> correct to say the alias isn't doing anything?
>
> On Friday, December 23, 2022 at 10:37:26 AM UTC-8 Bob Floyd wrote:
>
>> PS. Interesting, if I navigate to
>> https://www.nuv2.com/static/content/google6821620603f54cd0.html in the
>> browser I get the file. I got the idea by noticing in the apache logs that
>> asking from html had static/content in the url. Hope this gives you some
>> guidance as to what I've done wrong!
>>
>> On Friday, December 23, 2022 at 9:59:32 AM UTC-8 Bob Floyd wrote:
>>
>>> I tried and still get 404:
>>> Alias /google6821620603f54cd0.html
>>> /home/nuvroot/WWWsiteServer/static/content/google6821620603f54cd0.html
>>> and confirmed the file is there:
>>> ls /home/nuvroot/WWWsiteServer/static/content/google6821620603f54cd0.html
>>> and restarted apache:
>>> sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
>>>
>>> If you navigate to nuv2.com you will see .ico and .jpg files in
>>> static/content loaded correctly, so I conclude the directory is reachable.
>>> It's only when I navigate in the browser to https:/
>>> nuv2.com/google6821620603f54cd0.html that I consistently get 404. It is
>>> as if
>>> WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/wsgi/WWWsiteServer.wsgi
>>> is being used to process the url (and there is no python route for it)
>>> instead of
>>> Alias /google6821620603f54cd0.html
>>> /home/nuvroot/WWWsiteServer/static/content/google6821620603f54cd0.html
>>> but that doesn't make sense as the .ico and .jpg files load (but they
>>> also get 404 if navigated to). Something is different in asking for the
>>> files from within html code and asking for them in the browser url.
>>>
>>> I see this in the error log after I enter https:/
>>> nuv2.com/google6821620603f54cd0.html in hte browser:
>>>
>>> 2022-12-23 17:56:40
>>> Error
>>> 192.88.134.10
>>> 404
>>> GET /google6821620603f54cd0.html
>>> <https://50.62.181.212/smb/file-manager/code-editor?currentDir=%2Fhttpdocs%2F&subscriptionId=1&file=google6821620603f54cd0.html&redirect=%2Fsmb%2Flog-file%2Fbrowser%2Fid%2F1>
>>> HTTP/1.0
>>>
>>> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML,
>>> like Gecko) Chrome/108.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/108.0.1462.54
>>> 2.30 K
>>> Apache SSL/TLS access
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thursday, December 22, 2022 at 5:51:30 PM UTC-8 Graham Dumpleton
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Did you try with:
>>>>
>>>> Alias /google6821620603f54cd0.html
>>>> /home/nuvroot/WWWsiteServer/static/content/google6821620603f54cd0.html
>>>>
>>>> or not?
>>>>
>>>> I wasn't using "/home/google6821620603f54cd0.html" on the Alias line,
>>>> you were, and I was telling you to change it to the live above. It should
>>>> look similar to other Alias lines for other files in that directory you
>>>> already have but you were missing the "WWWsiteServer/static/content" part
>>>> of the path.
>>>>
>>>> Graham
>>>>
>>>> On 23 Dec 2022, at 12:45 pm, Bob Floyd <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Graham,
>>>>
>>>> $ ls -lasd /home/nuvroot
>>>> 4 drwxr-xr-x 6 nuvroot nuvroot 4096 Dec 22 15:54 /home/nuvroot
>>>>
>>>> What I tried didn't work, however I'm also bit confused about your use
>>>> of /home/google6821620603f54cd0.html on the Alias line. As that is the
>>>> target should the google file also be located there? I don't have access
>>>> above nuvroot!
>>>>
>>>> Here is the VirtualHost ( I also copied the google file to
>>>> /home/nuvroot):
>>>>
>>>> # Highest priority
>>>> <VirtualHost *:7080>
>>>>
>>>> ServerName www.nuv2.com
>>>>
>>>> ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
>>>>
>>>> DocumentRoot /home/nuvroot/WWWsiteServer
>>>>
>>>> <Directory /home/nuvroot/WWWsiteServer>
>>>> Require all granted
>>>> </Directory>
>>>>
>>>> WSGIDaemonProcess nuv2.com
>>>> python-home=/usr/local/venvs/WWWsiteServer
>>>> WSGIProcessGroup nuv2.com
>>>>
>>>> WSGIApplicationGroup %{GLOBAL}
>>>>
>>>> WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/wsgi/WWWsiteServer.wsgi
>>>>
>>>> <Directory /var/www/wsgi>
>>>> Require all granted
>>>> </Directory>
>>>>
>>>> Alias /BSIM-5-Stage-Inverter.JPG
>>>> /home/nuvroot/WWWsiteServer/static/content/BSIM-5-Stage-Inverter.JPG
>>>> Alias /Lease.pdf
>>>> /home/nuvroot/WWWsiteServer/static/content/Lease.pdf
>>>> Alias /NuV2.ico
>>>> /home/nuvroot/WWWsiteServer/static/content/NuV2.ico
>>>> Alias /favicon.ico
>>>> /home/nuvroot/WWWsiteServer/static/content/favicon.ico
>>>> Alias /PDF_32.png
>>>> /home/nuvroot/WWWsiteServer/static/content/PDF_32.png
>>>> Alias /SecureLeaseSm.JPG
>>>> /home/nuvroot/WWWsiteServer/static/content/SecureLeaseSm.JPG
>>>> Alias /TrademarkSmall.JPG
>>>> /home/nuvroot/WWWsiteServer/static/content/TrademarkSmall.JPG
>>>> Alias /UIDialog.bmp
>>>> /home/nuvroot/WWWsiteServer/static/content/UIDialog.bmp
>>>> # For google search ownership verification
>>>> Alias /google6821620603f54cd0.html
>>>> /home/nuvroot/google6821620603f54cd0.html
>>>> # I also tried
>>>> #Alias /google6821620603f54cd0.html /home/google6821620603f54cd0.html
>>>>
>>>> ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
>>>> CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
>>>>
>>>> </VirtualHost>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Bob
>>>> On Thursday, December 22, 2022 at 2:31:19 PM UTC-8 Graham Dumpleton
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You use "/home/google6821620603f54cd0.html" as the target of the URL
>>>>> path where it should be:
>>>>>
>>>>> Alias /google6821620603f54cd0.html
>>>>> /home/nuvroot/WWWsiteServer/static/content/google6821620603f54cd0.html
>>>>>
>>>>> based on what directory you said it was in.
>>>>>
>>>>> If that still doesn't work then the issue may be that the Apache user
>>>>> doesn't have access to anything under the home directory. So it still
>>>>> getting access error what do you get for:
>>>>>
>>>>> ls -lasd /home/nuvroot
>>>>>
>>>>> Graham
>>>>>
>>>>> On 23 Dec 2022, at 3:46 am, Bob Floyd <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I put the google search HTML file (for ownership verification) in
>>>>> static/content:
>>>>>
>>>>> ~/WWWsiteServer/static/content$ ls -l
>>>>> total 244
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nuvroot nuvroot 21748 Dec 6 23:53
>>>>> BSIM-5-Stage-Inverter.JPG
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nuvroot nuvroot 89457 Dec 6 23:53 Lease.pdf
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nuvroot nuvroot 1078 Dec 6 23:53 NuV2.ico
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nuvroot nuvroot 772 Dec 6 23:53 PDF_32.png
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nuvroot nuvroot 27452 Dec 6 23:53 SecureLeaseSm.JPG
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nuvroot nuvroot 8767 Dec 6 23:53 TrademarkSmall.JPG
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nuvroot nuvroot 77494 Dec 6 23:53 UIDialog.bmp
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nuvroot nuvroot 1078 Dec 9 19:19 favicon.ico
>>>>> -r--r--r-- 1 nuvroot root 53 Dec 22 01:06
>>>>> google6821620603f54cd0.html
>>>>>
>>>>> In my browser I enter https://www.nuv2.com/google6821620603f54cd0.html
>>>>> as recommended by google to test for access to the file and get 404
>>>>> error.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you navigate to nuv2.com, the other files in content are properly
>>>>> loaded, although attempting to access any of them using a url in the
>>>>> browser also gives 404.
>>>>>
>>>>> In the Apache 000-default.conf file I'm using Alias as recommended in
>>>>> the modwsgi docs:
>>>>> # Remap URL's for static files to where they actually are
>>>>> Alias /BSIM-5-Stage-Inverter.JPG
>>>>> /home/nuvroot/WWWsiteServer/static/content/BSIM-5-Stage-Inverter.JPG
>>>>> Alias /Lease.pdf
>>>>> /home/nuvroot/WWWsiteServer/static/content/Lease.pdf
>>>>> Alias /NuV2.ico
>>>>> /home/nuvroot/WWWsiteServer/static/content/NuV2.ico
>>>>> Alias /favicon.ico
>>>>> /home/nuvroot/WWWsiteServer/static/content/favicon.ico
>>>>> Alias /PDF_32.png
>>>>> /home/nuvroot/WWWsiteServer/static/content/PDF_32.png
>>>>> Alias /SecureLeaseSm.JPG
>>>>> /home/nuvroot/WWWsiteServer/static/content/SecureLeaseSm.JPG
>>>>> Alias /TrademarkSmall.JPG
>>>>> /home/nuvroot/WWWsiteServer/static/content/TrademarkSmall.JPG
>>>>> Alias /UIDialog.bmp
>>>>> /home/nuvroot/WWWsiteServer/static/content/UIDialog.bmp
>>>>> # For google search ownership verification
>>>>> Alias /google6821620603f54cd0.html
>>>>> /home/google6821620603f54cd0.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Any suggestions how I can get access to the google html file from the
>>>>> url? It's probably something simple but I've tried a ton of things
>>>>> without
>>>>> success.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
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