Introducing GIDBlog

I registered GIDBlog.com yesterday - and as soon as I finished setting it up in my web server, I realised that I couldn’t get to the web site at all.

I was certain that I had done everything correctly from within my web hosting control panel after many tries, but still, nothing.

I logged into my web server, looked at the error messsages in the log file and found that a zone file was missing:
loading master file /var/named/gidblog.com.db: file not found

Then I looked inside the
/var/named/
directory and found that unlike all the other, existing domains, gidblog.com’s zone file was not linked to a folder under
/var/named/chroot/.

All I did to fix this error was to move the (zone) file to the folder in /var/named/chroot/, then I created a symbolic link (to the file) in /var/named/. And it worked!

More details can be found in this forum discussion page at Directadmin.