Domain changes

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I made some domain changes with dreamhost–i.e. jon.madisons.com will immediately direct to smartbrother.org…knowing Dreamhost, it will cause a “bad_httpd_conf” error at some point within the next 24 hours–so heads up.

  • http://www.smartbrother.org jon

    And it happened. Ended up being a little worse because it took a few iterations to get the sites (smartbrother.org and gallery.smartbrother.org) functioning properly. Obviously we’re back up. Wish i had more word on the root cause of Dreamhost’s constant “bad_httpd_conf” issue when moving/setting up a site.

  • http://andshesaid.com Carla

    I wondered what happened… :)

  • http://www.smartbrother.org jon

    You know what–I did too, after the “bad_httpd_conf” error was actually eliminated, yet the site came up with just a directory listing! what a day.

  • Jim

    aha! So I’m not the only one getting this error!

    What is up with that? Dreamhost sure does seem to have a lot more… “quirks” than they used to.

    Is there a better host out there for the same price?

  • http://www.smartbrother.org jon

    this happens quite a bit.

    enough that if you put in a support request, it’s one of the dropdowns.

    they take care of it pretty quickly.

    j.

  • http://maxcreative.com Steve

    We have about 50 sites on Dreamhost and this is the first time we’ve encountered bad_httpd_conf. They did fix it fast, but now should I check the othe 49 sites? What causes this error?