Re: [cobalt-developers] point domain to another domain

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All of us here wrote:

> I have 2 domains on my Raq3. I need one to automatically switch to the
> other when accessed.
> 
> How do you do that?
> 
> I put in an A Record with my old name pointing to the new name, didn't seem
> to do anything.

I'm not sure what you mean, since you don't use an A record to point a
name to a name, but rather to resolve a name to an IP#.

Presuming that what you mean is something like this:

  oldname.com.  IN A 123.124.125

in the zone file for oldname, and

  newname.com.  IN A 123.124.125

in the zone file for newname, then if newname.com is sharing an IP#, you
need to have the ServerAlias lines as follows:

ServerAlias www.oldname.com
ServerAlias oldname.com

in your /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file in the virtual host block for
newname.com.  Though their location isn't defined anywhere, I generally
put them right above the DocumentRoot line.

If you change /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, be sure to restart Apache to
make it work.

Instructions were posted by me in response to another post in the last
few days.

Jeff
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