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texasbob

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I just got my very first dedicated box, Linux, and DA for the control panel. I have been working on trying to set the DNS up right for over two days but have not been able to figure it out. If the box was next to me I would most likely have kicked it.

I will only be hosting two small HTML sites on the box so it's not some super advanced set up.

I was wondering if someone could help me out or anyone want to make a few extra dollars for 30 min's of work.

Thanks in advance for any help.

TexasRob
 
There are several ways to go about setting
up your box, but I'm guessing you have:
- one server
- one domain already registered
- wish to host a few more domains eventually ?

one way would be:

1. as admin, create a reseller package, which
you'll be using for your main domain, enter
suitably large numbers for bandwidth and
disk space - select 3IPs to be use, two of which
will be used as nameservers.

2. create a reseller, if we suppose your domain
is texasbob.com, then create a reseller called
texasbob, and fill in your domain details etc.

- this will set up texasbob.com as the reseller's
domain, and will assign two IPs as nameservers.

3. register these IPs to be used as your nameservers
at GoDaddy, and wait for dns to propagate so your
site will resolve.

4. to set up a few other sites, log in as texasbob
create a user package, and then create a user.
It's easier at this stage to set up all users
to share the reseller IP (the IP which will
have been assigned to texasbob for his domain).

So far, we've done nothing about hostname, as
we're not using this for anything, but later,
you could:

- edit the zone file for texasbob.com, and add
an A record for something like server1.texasbob.com
using a free IP address for this if you like.
- run the hostname.sh script, supplying
server1.texasbob.com and the IP address as arguments.

- go to admin settings, and enter the nameservers
you're using for texasbob.com as the nameservers to
be used - means if you set up any site using your
admin's reseller level, these nameservers will be used.

There are other ways to go about dealing with
nameservers, you could simply add a dns
zone, and this could be used to create a zone
file for texasbob.com, and assign two IPs
to be used, and you could add these
nameservers in the admin settings to be
used for all future sites on the box, and
also register these with GoDaddy. This
may or may not be easier depending
on how you look at things.
 
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squirrelhost: Thanks for the great reply it really helped me out. Here is one thing I wanted to ask you about though. I believe this is more personal style but I wanted to get your feedback.

As I understand from your example you would create new "websites" under your reseller account that you had created in 'Admin Level.' So if you bought a new domain and wanted to add it to the server you would go to 'Admin' login to your reseller account and then create a user under that reseller account.

While I was chatting with another forum member he suggested that an esier/better way to manage multiple websites is to: click on 'Reseller Level' and add a new user there. So each time I want to add a new domain/website I just go to 'Reseller Level' and create a new user that way.

I think they accomplish the same thing but wanted to make sure.

The one thing I have found VERY confusing being a new user of DirectAdmin is their different Access Level's: Admin Level, Reseller Level, and User Level.
 
In case you haven't looked at this page yet, it should clarify any confusion you may have on the different permission classes within DA.

:)
 
you can do it either way indeed.

i thought that in your case, you may wish
to set up a reseller account, with your
'main domain' as the reseller's domain.

i've no hosting accounts set up on
the servers which host my own domain,
so on all the other servers, I do just click
on admin's reseller level when setting
up users.
 
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