Topic: Problem getting subdomain to accurately reflect file hierarc

[banja]

Aloha,

I am very new to running my own server, so please be gentle and very concrete in your advice. I really enjoy learning and appreciate your help.
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Apache version 2.4.7
Ubuntu Linux 14.04
BIND version 9.9.5
MySQL version 5.5.37
OpenSSH_6.6.1
Virtualmin version 4.08.gpl GPL
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The premise: I am setting up a small, simple torrent tracker front end and back in (xbtit), and it comes with php scripts that should allow me to do a real easy GUI install just by accessing my sub.domain.tld.

The story so far: Have a generic "hello world" index.html in my /home/domain/public_html folder, it opens up on browser. I also used virtualmin to create sub.domain.tld, and it made a folder /home/sub/ with public_html and other folders in it.

Inside of /home/sub/public_html I have all the files for xbtit torrent tracker front/back end, and the instructions say that if I now go to sub.domain.tld it will open up the visual web install. When I go to sub.domain.tld it pulls up the generic index.html page that I put in /home/domain/public_html. Why is it pulling up a file that is in an entirely different folder on my server? I'm sure there's just a small change in some configuration file that will tell the server to start reading correctly, and I have been searching, both through virtualmin settings and through online guides to find out what I need to do.

Yesterday I was getting this error, but I think that was before I realized I needed an index.html file in the public_html folder.

ERROR LOG:
H01276: Cannot serve directory /home/maindomain/public_html/: No matching DirectoryIndex (index.html,index.htm,index.php,index.php4,index.php5) found, and server-generated directory index forbidden by Options directive
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THE PLOT THICKENS

So I just checked my logs, and something very suspicious is going on. I am not doing anything with my server at all right now except loading files to it, and yet all this stuff pops up in the log:

ACCESS LOG:
".249.76.94 - - [28/May/2014:14:10:06 -0400] "GET /hello.jsp HTTP/1.1" 404 414 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
66.249.76.94 - - [28/May/2014:14:10:06 -0400] "GET /hello HTTP/1.1" 404 409 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
208.115.111.70 - - [28/May/2014:14:11:17 -0400] "GET /topic/%E3%81%93%E3%82%8C%E3%81%AF%E5%AE%8C%E5%85%A8%E3%81%AB%E9%96%93%E9%81%95%E3%81%A3%E3%81%A6%E3%81%84%E3%82%8B%E3%81%A8%E4%B8%8D%E5%81%A5%E5%BA%B7%E3%81%A7%E3%81%82%E3%82%8B HTTP/1.1" 404 412 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; DotBot/1.1; http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/dotbot, help@moz.com)"
208.115.111.70 - - [28/May/2014:14:11:20 -0400] "GET /topic/cheap-authentic-jordans-hftvc HTTP/1.1" 404 384 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; DotBot/1.1; http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/dotbot, help@moz.com)"
208.115.111.70 - - [28/May/2014:14:11:22 -0400] "GET /topic/cheap-jordan-5-howard-ypcw HTTP/1.1" 404 381 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; DotBot/1.1; http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/dotbot, help@moz.com)"

I JUST NOW REALIZED that I used to have hosting with hostgator and ran a really basic forum through my domain. It wasn't password protected and I stopped using it, and the next time I checked on it it had been taken over by spam bots. I thought nothing of it as I wasn't using the forum anymore, and I thought I cancelled my hosting subscription and it would get shut off. I just checked hhostgator though and apparently I forgot to cancel, my account has been being charged every month and is now suspended, I just contacted them to tell them my huge mistake and hopefully get refunded.

BUT as you can see above, there's a lot of bot "cheap nikes" spam stuff showing up in my apache log, and I have no idea how it is happening. I'm sure I've pulled a totally insecure rookie mistake and you all are going to judge me harshly, but please help me fix it!

Let me know if you need more information and how I might query that information from the command line. Also, I haven't yet opened a .conf file, edited it, and saved it from the command line, so please be explicit in your instructions.

I am at your mercy and hope you will show pity on me.

Banja

[James Blond]

You may post the vhost config.