Re: [cobalt-developers] Virtual sites sharing IP address

[Jerry Pape <jplist@xxxxxxxx>]

If your objective is to allow the developer the ability to access the 
web site prior to the time you re-point the root-level DNS (Network 
Solutions, Register.com, etc), the easiest thing to do is to modify 
httpd.conf like so:
(obviously xx.xx.xx.xx and www.somedomain.com should be valid and 
replaced by whatever they are on your server)

NameVirtualHost xx.xx.xx.xx
##############################
<VirtualHost xx.xx.xx.xx>
ServerName www.somedomain.com
ServerAdmin admin
# To facilitate migration redirect trick
DocumentRoot /home/sites
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}                !^xx.xx.xx.xx(:80)?$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}                !^www.somedomain.com(:80)?$
RewriteRule ^/(.*)                      http://www.somedomain.com/$1 [L,R]
RewriteOptions inherit
# to facilitate access to web dirs only via migration redirect trick
AliasMatch ^/(www[^/]+)(/(.*))? /home/sites/$1/web/$3
AddHandler cgi-wrapper .cgi
AddHandler cgi-wrapper .pl
AddHandler server-parsed .shtml
AddType    text/html     .shtml
<Directory /home/sites>
Options -Indexes
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

JP

> Hi, guru's out there:
>
> We have a problem situation with a virtual site on our RAQ3 server 
> which I best can describe as follows:
>
> 1 - The virtual site is defined, and the customer has already 
> started to work with some web pagres there
> 2 - Changes in the nameservers has not yet been done, and points to 
> wrong addresses
>
> So far, it's all logical. But when adding new virtual sites, strange 
> things happens:
>
> 3 - A new site is defined, defined with A-record on our nameservers 
> pointing to the same, shared IP address as the one mention above. 
> This site works nice.
> 4 - two other domains shall be routed to the site described above 
> (3). On the name servers, these domains has CNAME records  that 
> points to the domain (3). When accessed from the browser, connection 
> to domain from (1) is attempted, and fails (since the site is not 
> correctly defined in any nameservers).
>
> So, whats going wrong here? Must Virtual Sites be defined in a 
> nameserver before a site can be created when sharing IPaddress?
>
>
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