I decided to move this blog to an IPv6 web server because, well because I thought I ought to. We’re in the middle of the dual stacking project at Gconnect and the idea of using a new 30:30 server to isolate our blogs and web site, combined with IPv6 seemed nice! So whats the process??
Step 1: Create the 30:30 server
Thats easy! I selected a FreeBSD 9.1 base server with a security upgrade.
Step 2: add IPv6 to the FreeBSD server
Add to rc.conf the IPv6 details provided by Gconnect as follows (obviously yours will be different):
ifconfig_bce1_ipv6="inet6 2a01:570:1:405::211 prefixlen 64" ipv6_defaultrouter="2a01:570:1:405::1" ipv6_prefer="YES"
Now reboot the server to make it all come alive. If you want to add the IPv6 capability without reboot, then you can just manually add the info like this:
ifconfig bce1 inet6 2A01:570:1:31::19 prefixlen 64 route add -inet6 default 2A01:570:1:31::1
If you like you can put some IPv6 resolvers into the /etc/resolv.conf file and I also added some extra config to the /etc/hosts file as shown:
ee /etc/resolv.conf --/add/-- nameserver 2001:4860:4860::8888 nameserver 2001:4860:4860::8844 --/-- ee /etc/hosts --/add/-- 2A01:570:1:405::211 gcweb1.gconnect.net gcweb1 --/--
You probably want to test this out now with a ping6
# ping6 ipv6.google.com PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2a01:570:1:405::211 --> 2a00:1450:400b:c02::6a 16 bytes from 2a00:1450:400b:c02::6a, icmp_seq=0 hlim=57 time=17.761 ms 16 bytes from 2a00:1450:400b:c02::6a, icmp_seq=1 hlim=57 time=18.055 ms
Step 3 Configure Apache
I’m assuming that you have installed Apache, PHP, MySQL and anything else you may need. I also assume it works with IPv4! If the previous steps were all successful you can see if apache is listening on IPv6 with sockstat -6
USER COMMAND PID FD PROTO LOCAL ADDRESS FOREIGN ADDRESS www httpd 54448 3 tcp6 *:80 *:* www httpd 54447 3 tcp6 *:80 *:* www httpd 54446 3 tcp6 *:80 *:* www httpd 54412 3 tcp6 *:80 *:* www httpd 54411 3 tcp6 *:80 *:* www httpd 54410 3 tcp6 *:80 *:* www httpd 54409 3 tcp6 *:80 *:* www httpd 54408 3 tcp6 *:80 *:* root httpd 54407 3 tcp6 *:80 *:* root sshd 1069 3 tcp6 *:22 *:* root syslogd 827 6 udp6 *:514 *:*
This all looks good. I’m using virtual hosting so the only bit we need to edit is the /usr/local/etc/apache22/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
NameVirtualHost 10.40.5.211 NameVirtualHost [2a01:570:1:405::211] <VirtualHost 10.40.5.211> ServerAdmin dan_at_gconnect.net DocumentRoot /my/web/dir. ServerName blog.danmassey.net Directoryindex index.php index.html ErrorLog /my/logs/error.log CustomLog /my/logs/access combined </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost [2a01:570:1:405::211]> ServerAdmin dan_at_gconnect.net DocumentRoot /my/web/dir ServerName blog.danmassey.net ServerAlias newblog.danmassey.net Directoryindex index.php index.html ErrorLog /my/logs/error.log CustomLog /my/logs/access combined </VirtualHost>
Now just restart apache and you are away! Check it’s working by browsing to the site with IPv6 enabled client of your choice and then check the logs. You should see the IPv6 addresses in the log (here is my test):
2a01:570:1:31:d1db:d1cd:ffec:1f7d - - [15/Feb/2013:17:59:10 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 63173 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0)"
All good!
