Browser unable to resolve website and other config issues

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Hello experts,

I’ve a working grav blog hosted on AWS Linux as you can see by visiting http://54.227.171.31. There are two problems:

#1 - Internal URLs are unreachable

The site is located in the documentRoot /var/www/html.

Rewrite module is enabled, .htaccess has Rewritebase ‘/’ command enabled. (I’ve tried with it disabled too.)

user/config/system.yaml:

home:
  alias: /blog
  hide_in_urls: true

user/config/site.yaml:

blog:
route: ''

user/pages/01.blog/blog.md

blog_url: '/'

#2 - Browsers are unable to resolve the URL

There is an A record pointing to the server.

$ nslookup awsm.dvlprz.com
Server:		8.8.8.8
Address:	8.8.8.8#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:	awsm.dvlprz.com
Address: 54.227.171.31

$ host awsm.dvlprz.com
awsm.dvlprz.com has address 54.227.171.31
awsm.dvlprz.com mail is handled by 1 redirect.ovh.net.

Apache is configured with virtual host for both :80 and :443

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"
ServerName "awsm.dvlprz.com"
ServerAlias "awsm.dvlprz.com"
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =awsm.dvlprz.com
RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:443>
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"
ServerName "awsm.dvlprz.com"
ServerAlias "awsm.dvlprz.com"
SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/awsm.dvlprz.com/fullchain.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/awsm.dvlprz.com/privkey.pem
Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf
</VirtualHost>
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@abhay First of all, I am a total infrastructure noob, so I might be mistaken…

Having said that, I am missing the following in your virtual host definition:

<Directory /var/www/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
</Directory>

When I comment out the lines containing ‘AllowOverride All’ and ‘Require all granted’ I can only access the home page. When accessing a blog item I get the exact same error as on your site.

Do I know what that all does? No, I don’t… I rather read spaghetti code…

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@pamtbaau

Thank you! You’re my hero. The site works now. The configuration I added was:

<Directory /var/www/html/awsm.dvlprz.com>
AllowOverride All
Options MultiViews Includes FollowSymLinks
Order allow,deny
Allow from All
<Limit GET POST OPTIONS>
       Require all granted
</Limit>
<LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS>
       Require all denied
</LimitExcept>
</Directory>

Then it worked with the IP address but still not with the URL. Had me stumped. Then I used another computer to test and voila!, the URL worked! That told me there was something specific to my computer. So cleared the DNS cache and still nothing!

Finally I checked the /etc/hosts file and found a long forgotten entry pointing to the old webserver! Something that I should have checked first!

Anyway, thank you for your help. Hope my saga helps someone oneday …

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@abhay Be advised that access control in Apache 2.4 has changed. Have a look at the section ‘Access’ in the Apache document Upgrading to 2.4 from 2.2:

2.2 configuration:
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

2.4 configuration:
Require all granted

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