Grey Light in websites

Hi everybody
I run the lates Mountain Lion server and use it to have my companies and two ohter websites running.
I cannot get the green light in the websites tab, neighter in the VPN taps to work.
I set up DNS, if I check sudo changeip -checkhostname it reads " success" has a ip for nameserver and dns server.
access.mydomain.com has a nameserver record and machine record and a zone record, pointing to the local IP address. It performs lookup only for the server, forwarding server I setup with the IP address of the AE basestation.
I am behind a AE basestation which is controlled by the server.app.
In the network pane of the server machine I put in 127.0.0.1 as DNS server
VPN is working
All the sites are working
...but the light is grey...not green. A bug?
Yours
Pierre

Hi Pierre,
1. You need to add a dns alias record for each website within the zone in DNS Tab for the green light to show.
2. After you set up the alias records, you then may still need to click on the hostname field in Web Sites and VPN, and re-enter the name before the Green Light will show.
Example. Say you are hosting 4 websites - for www.domain1.net, crm.domain1.net, www.mydomain.com and you want OS X Server wiki access via access.mydomain.com
You need 2 DNS Primary Zones - mydomain.com and domain1.com
You need a Nameserver and MX ( if you are hosting mail as well) record for each Zone pointing to the server ip address.
You need a machine record for at least the server within the mydomain.com zone.
Then you need alias records in each Zone as follows for any websites other than the default sites which would be http:// or https://access.mydomain.com. This is where the wiki shows up if you turn it on.
Alias Records in DNS
Zone - mydomain.com
Host Name - www
Destination - access.mydomain.com
Zone - domain1.net
Host Name - www
Destination - access.mydomain.com
Zone - domain1.net
Host Name - crm
Destination - access.mydomain.com
(No alias needed for access.mydomain.com in case that wasn't clear!)
Re VPN - if you have set up a machine record of access.mydomain.com and you type that address as the host into the vpn host box, the green light should show. This needs to be a fully qualified host name, not a top level domain name.
Obviously you need to mirror your internal DNS settings as far as any alias or machine names you have set with your external DNS provider to point it all to your external IP address.

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For example, now I have a file under the structure: iTunes library -> Music -> Blue Oyster Cult -> Heaven Forbid -> Cold Grey Light of Dawn.mp3
And I also have a file under the structure: iTunes library -> Music -> Blue Oyster Cult -> Heaven Forbid -> Cold Grey Light of Dawn 1.mp3
So now the immediate problem... The consolidation didn't finish, so I don't know exactly how much duplication iTunes created. I checked my library, and sure enough, the song in the library is pointed at the duplicate file (the one with a 1 at the end). I don't have the option to just copy the iTunes library to another external drive temporarily (or not easily, at least). I checked out a bunch of duplicate file cleanup programs, but the ones I found (and I even purchased Gemini's dupe file finder/cleanser) don't seem to inherently choose the correct duplicate file that is linked to iTunes library dB. I can't realistically pick and choose from the thousands of files that have been duplicated.
I decided to change the advanced preferences in iTunes to an entirely new folder on the External hard drive. Then I could just go back into File -> Library -> Organize library and select only the "Reorganize files..." checkbox without selecting the "Consolidate files" checkbox. I figured this would just move all the files that are in the iTunes dB to the new iTunes folder. Ummm.... but no. Apparently this "Reorganize files" checkbox is only available if you select "Consolidate files"...? To be clear, "Reorganize files" is greyed out.
So to summarize:
1. Why did iTunes create copies of existing files in the exact same location they were in?
2. What is the right (and I pray easy) way to get my library back to the right size and consolidated into one place? I'm still dangerously low on disk space on the mac...
<sigh>
Thanks for reading through all this!
Tim
Mac Mini OSX 10.8.3; iTunes 11.0.2 (26)

See this thread for background on why iTunes can end up with duplicates and how they can be systematically removed. The script there is for Windows users and the "show duplicates" menus have moved around in iTunes 11, but the advice on clearing recently made duplicates should still hold.
As given in my older post "Reorganize library" is meant as a one time command to change the structure of a pre-iTunes 9 library into the newer layout that places music in its own subfolder of the media folder. Once used, if the option becomes available again that suggests that a file called .iTunes Preferences.plist in the media folder has been deleted or editied.
See also this post.
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