wget not working with domain on local machine

Question

Basically - I have some PHP scripts that need to be run as cron jobs.

Lets say the script needing to be run is: http://admin.somedomain.com/cron_jobs/get_stats

If I run the script from the local machine it gives me a 404 Not Found error.

So I entered the following into /etc/hosts

XX.XX.XX.45    admin.somedomain.com

Now wget works fine from the local machine to that domain. However when I restart Apache that domain no longer works. Here is the config for that site in /etc/apache2/sites-available

NameVirtualHost XX.XX.XX.45:80

<VirtualHost XX.XX.XX.45:80>
    ServerName admin.somedomain.com
     DocumentRoot /var/www/admin.somedomain.com/
    <Directory "/var/www/admin.somedomain.com">
            allowoverride all
          Options Indexes
          order deny,allow
           allow from all
       </Directory>
    ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/admin.somedomain.com-error_log
    CustomLog /var/log/apache2/admin.somedomain.com-access_log combined

</VirtualHost>

It just goes to the default site config showing "It Works".

If I take out that setting in /etc/hosts and restart apache the website at that domain works fine again.

Can anyone point me in the right direction here? Thanks

Mark Wagner · Answer 1 · 2012-09-12T00:07:40.117

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Try wget --header="Host: admin.somedomain.com" http://localhost/cron_jobs/get_stats (That's one line.)

edited Sep 12 '12 at 00:07

answered Sep 11 '12 at 23:03

Mark Wagner

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ERROR 404: Not Found. – user568829 Sep 12 '12 at 05:05

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 11 '12 at 20:00

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try httpd -S that should give you list of all configured virtualhosts including yours. Also verify that your directory "/var/www/admin.somedomain.com/" exists and also take a look in logs and see what they're saying...

answered Sep 11 '12 at 20:00

alexus

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command not found for httpd -S. And yes, /var/www/admin.somedomain.com/ is there. – user568829 Sep 11 '12 at 20:31
sudo `which httpd` -S find your httpd and run it w/ -S – alexus Sep 11 '12 at 20:58
'which httpd' gives me no output. The system is running debian. – user568829 Sep 12 '12 at 05:09
In Debian it's `apache2` instead of `httpd`. – Janne Pikkarainen Sep 12 '12 at 05:32
Thanks - Running `apache2 -S` from root returns `apache2: bad user name ${APACHE_RUN_USER}` – user568829 Sep 12 '12 at 05:59

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Sep 12 '12 at 03:27

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Is there some reason you need to run the scripts through Apache, triggered by an HTTP client? What about just running them directly from cron?

0 4 * * * /usr/bin/php /path/to/script

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quanta

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answered Sep 11 '12 at 20:04

Kevin DeGraaf

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I already tried this. They are Code Igniter virtual addresses - so there is no full path to them unfortunately. – user568829 Sep 11 '12 at 20:29

wget not working with domain on local machine

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