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

[Kris Dahl <kris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would request that posts be made in ASCII text and not god-awful and hard
to ready HTML.

If anyone remembers that really good mailing list / usenet netiquete site?
Might be a good idea to post that again.

Thanks,
-k

on 1/29/00 4:49 AM, Mark Spieth at mspieth@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 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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