Thank you so much for the detailed reply. I ended up uninstalling AirTime and restarting the server and everything worked again, except AirTime obviously.

I probably shouldn't have AirTime on this along with ownbox and a basic website, but I don't expect much traffic plus it's a dedicated server. I was previously running my site on shared hosting.

If I install AirTIme again, will it undo the edits to the vhost files and such or no. And if I do use the auto installer, any specific settings I should select to avoid editing apache? I believe there's a "no change" option when it asks if I want to remove default.

Once I hear back I'll finish up what you listed. Thanks!

But let me give you a synopsis

If you look in your /etc/apache2/sites-available you should see a file named airtime-vhost.conf
If you did not delete it you would see two files airtime-vhost.conf and default

So lets edit the airtime-vhost.conf

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/airtime-vhost.conf

Now you will see two virtual host  starting as follows

<VirtualHost *:443>  and the other  <VirtualHost *:80>

<VirtualHost *:80> is your culprit

Step 1
so change it to say  port 8080 or any port you do not have anything listening on to look like this

<VirtualHost *:8080>

Step 2
Lets set up the config files for airtime that use http,things like rabbitmq and monit
change the base port to 8080 in these two files

sudo pico /etc/airtime/api_client.cfg 
and
sudo pico /etc/airtime/airtime.conf

Step 3
We have just created a new listening port so lets tell apache about it

sudo pico /etc/apache2/ports.conf

and place this in the file

Listen 8080

if you have a firewall allow port 8080 on both (incoming and outgoing)

Step 5

If you are anxious as I am you could just restart  apache

sudo service apache2 reload && service apache2 restart

Then go to http://IP : 80 and it should hallo at you no site found
but when you go https://IP or http://IP:8080 you should see your airtime login

So lets configure to point to your site.
the root directory of most site is /var/www/  so I will ASS U ME  thats the case if not  you need that information


Step 6
you need to create your virtual host to point to your web root directory
Just back to your  airtime-vhost.conf and copy what is there for port 8080

place it below that virtual host but now change that new copy of virtual host from *8080 t0 80

You should now have 3 virtual host in that file

<VirtualHost *:443>  and the other  <VirtualHost *:8080> and finally <VirtualHost *:80>


then look for the line that say document root and change it to your webroot (/var/www/) and remove ther redirect directive

like this


<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

        DocumentRoot /var/www
        <Directory />
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride None
        </Directory>
        <Directory /var/www/>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride None
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Step 7

Lets enable our sites and reload and restart Apache

sudo a2ensite [ change me to your domain eg localhost,whatever.com without these bracket]

then
sudo service apache2 reload && service apache2 restart

Step 8
Oh just got carried away you are finished,go to localhost or your Ip etc and check all you should be fine

Oh this was a doozy.Go drink something and say "Yes"

GOOD Luck
VOISSES
Ps. it require all these steps since Airtime was design with the Idea

• One your Airtime would be a dedicate server
• It would be too numerous to state all the possibility of configure your virtual host and the one I gave is just a sample
  

Maybe the installer should say: Install as default Site or on Port Number 8080 (whatever)

James Hoyt said:

Thank you so much for the detailed reply. I ended up uninstalling AirTime and restarting the server and everything worked again, except AirTime obviously.

I probably shouldn't have AirTime on this along with ownbox and a basic website, but I don't expect much traffic plus it's a dedicated server. I was previously running my site on shared hosting.

If I install AirTIme again, will it undo the edits to the vhost files and such or no. And if I do use the auto installer, any specific settings I should select to avoid editing apache? I believe there's a "no change" option when it asks if I want to remove default.

Once I hear back I'll finish up what you listed. Thanks!

Yes You should and keep note of it.
Nothing is  Guarantee with operating systems when you do core updates.
The problem most people have is that once you have and update they rush for it,which is never true.

If you have any embedded device (cable box,routers,smart tv's etc) you never update them unless its critical,why should all the time unless they are critical then you need to know how to fix them and this is a solution that works.

I also find this procedure usefully to move to services and application separate and provide a little more security.

VOISSES