So near but yet so far.

When I woke up yesterday, all the new DNS setting propagated and I ended up with non functional address for my other blog blog.sapphireknight.com

*Sigh* .. Finally, I have made up my mind. I have downloaded WordPress, and I will host everything on my very own server. Hahaha. There goes another customer of blogger and here I come WordPress. Within half and hour, I managed to set up everything on my local server.

I have uploaded test page to my server. At the moment, all the blogs are still in blogger.com. I will move them (and I mean ALL of my blogs including this one) to my server.

Firefox vs Internet Explorer 7 - Different Behaviour

Follow up to my DNS screw up earlier, I notice that FireFox 2.0 and Internet Explorer 7 behaves differently when it comes to interfacing with the DNS.

In FireFox 2.0, this is what I get when I tried to access my web server http://www.sapphireknight.com.


And this is what I get in Internet Explorer 7


Now, in Firefox, what I get is the placeholder page in GoDaddy.com. It is the default page if you have not set up or upload any other page yet. While in IE7, the screen is the default placeholder for Apache web server in Fedora Core. My server is actually a Linux server running Red Hat Fedora Core. So, IE7 obviously right in this sense. I am so sure why Firefox does not give me the right page. It am really confuse. Again, I am not so sure if my DNS setting is correct or not.

The only different is that I have set up a proxy in Firefox. While in IE7, it is direct connection. On personal notes, I do use Firefox 2.0 heavily and IE7 is just for checking the output of my web pages to make sure that all I do is at least compatible to these two major web browser.

I messed up my DNS again ....

It is the second time in 2 months that I messed up my name server again. Everytime I add a new domain, everything just goes hair wire ...

The first time when I shifted my first domain www.asianbatik.com from Yahoo! Small Business to GoDaddy.com, everything just does not work. I have to recommission my new server after just 14 days. Luckily, I don't have much yet except all the files from my previous shared hosting server in Yahoo!.

This time, it happened yesterday. I add in new domain, sapphireknight.com and every domain just pointing to each other. I am not sure whether what I did was wrong or right. It takes several hours for the DNS to take effect. Ha ha ha.. poor me. But I am learning. Being an impatient species, I just keep changing the setting .. Now, my domain www.sapphireknight.com and sapphireknight.com is actually pointing to GoDaddy.com server where my free web hosting account is located. It actually should point to my server where the rests of the domain and DNS is located..

The problem is, for each of my domain, I would have one sub domain named blog pointing to my blog in Blogger.com. Somehow, it does not work the way I wanted..

Hopefully, everything would be fine soon. As I am moving this weekend, I will be off line for several days until the telco shift my phone and my broadband to the new location. Well, it is just next block to where I am staying now. But, it might take days before the technician come to fix it.

It really scared me because I still have another domain, phpwebcounter.com yet to be moved from Yahoo!.. It is just a domain park server. Now, it is pointing to my server fine. When I need to shift it in June, only then I will worry. Hopefully, I am already good at managing my name server by that time.. Again, wish me luck !!!

I am on the move !!

I will be shifting house again this coming weekend. It is just another block in the same housing complex. The reason - bigger room and more space. I have been working on my dining table for the last few months or so.

There are more and more projects coming in. I have used half of my dining table for my work stuff - smart card reader, reference book, several wires, blank DVD etc. So, I need special room for my own office at home. Now we are talking about a real SOHO.

Thanks Allah for all these. I am also expecting twin baby in late April or early May. So the space is really justified. I also have my wife's twin sister moving in to safe cost and to help her around after my twin delivery.