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Re: [cobalt-developers] VirtualSite name hosting aliases

RaQ4 supports adding "ServerAlias" directives through the GUI such that you just enter a comma-separated list of host+domain names you want the site to answer for when creating or editing the site settings.
On the RaQ3 you'll have to enter them by hand by editing the httpd.conf file ... search the Apache documentation for "ServerAlias" for more info ... you'll need to put the "ServerAlias" inside the "<VirtualHost></VirtualHost>" statement for that particular site.
Email aliasing is a different matter and I don't remember offhand the proper way to do that on a RaQ3 (I'm being lazy and not booting mine up) ... in the RaQ4 GUI you can do the same thing for aliasing domains for email as you can for aliasing domains for web, just create a comma-sep list. 



At 12:14 PM 8/2/00, you wrote:

On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 12:41:52PM -0400, Kevin D wrote:
> I'm a little unclear about exactly what you are trying to accomplish, but a
> CNAME DNS entry might just do the trick. For example, if you've got
> www.domain.com, and you want www.domain2.com to represent the same domain,
> just enter a CNAME record for domain2.com that points to domain.com. Thus,
> requesting a web page, sending mail or otherwise connecting to
> www.domain2.com will yield the same results as connecting to www.domain.com. 

Nope, CNAME will not do the trick precisely.  CNAME is a DNS 'alias'
yes -- but the browser will send a different host header if you go
to the CNAME.  The problem is with the server, Apache, understanding
where that particular CNAME maps to in web space.

Again, I have no problems personally with editing my httpd.conf file
to add another rewrite condition in the VirtualHost entry, but that
is only doable by the command line -- I was asking if there were
plans, or if perhaps Cobalt would make plans, to add this
functionality to the UI so that it can be accomplished by people
who may be unfamiliar with apache and mod_rewrite.


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