RE: [cobalt-users] Web Forwarding - The next chapter!

["Mark Spieth" <mspieth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am not sure why this issue is causing so much trouble. :)

 

First enter all the zones into your DNS. Make an A record for the domains that all point to the same IP address.

 

www        IN    A    192.168.1.10

 

Be sure that the IP address you assign to the A record for all the domains are the same across the domains and unused by anything other than the domains you wish to point to 1 site.

 

Then create a site on the raq and assign it the ip address you chose from above.

 

This is the easiest way to do it. You can use name based virtual hosting but that would cause you to have to enter all the domain names as a server aliase within the main site and that would lake far more time than its worth.

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Owen Lees
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2000 6:03 AM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [cobalt-users] Web Forwarding - The next chapter!

Hi all..

 

Was wondering if we ever got to the bottom of the web redirection issue that I was asking about?

 

To recap :-

 

I am hosting lots of sites on a name based virtual site basis.

I have been asked to register 40+ domains to our nameserver.

 

I dont really want to give them all sites on the Raq2 (waste of space), but thought instead that I would make ONE site and redirect all the requests for the other domains to this one site.

 

Ok - this is what I have tried so far:

 

1. Bunging a Redirect into httpd.conf

2. Putting CNAME's into the DNS server config along with the domain > ip A record.

3. Putting CNAME's into the DNS server along with all the normal records.

4. Attempted to do a bungled redirect mask in the actual virtual server record in httpd.conf

 

I am now thinking that maybe I should not be attempting to redirect a site that is allready on the machine and that redirects should only be done with domains that do not have a site on my box so as not to confuse apache.

 

However - this may be completely off track of course (grin) , I have had lots of suggestions from you guys but we still seem to be off the mark a little.. I am sure that this is perfectly feasable to do, and can't beleieve that it may be a RAQ issue casusing the redirects not to work :)

 

 

 

Regards

 

Owen Lees
Technical Director - Grafixx Digital Services

 

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