Re: [cobalt-users] Sub domain sites

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> At 01:32 PM 2/1/00  hyrb wrote:
>
> Can a raq 3virtul host a subdomain as a seperate site (ftp,email etc) with 
> out useing a
> dedicated IP, or even with?

You can't do it without dedicated IP#.  This is not a RaQ issue.  It's an 
Internet protocol issue.  There is a web-based protocol in place for 
sharing IP#s; there's none for FTP.  For mail it doesn't matter (more below)...

> For example, site is established www.my.domain.com
> DNS has a records for my.domain.com & www.my.domain.com
> SOA for my.domain.com
>
> problem is when I try to go to the URL I am taken to the FIRST site I 
> established using the shared IP address.

You should not be having a problem with the browser.  Did you set up the 
virtual site on the RaQ with a domain name of <my.domain.com>, and a 
hostname of <www>?  Did you set up both sites with the same IP#?  If so, 
any recent browser should find the site.  Very old browsers won't, because 
they don't understand the newer protocol.

You can set up individual FTP, with each person having their own logon 
name.  That's easy because the FTP daemon finds each user's own directory, 
which is set up by the RaQ by default.  If you set up an A record in DNS 
for <ftp.my.domain.com>, pointing to the same IP#, or even a CNAME record 
(which is how I do it) just pointing to <www.my.domain.com>, then this 
should just work.

Anonymous FTP is completely impossible; there's nothing in the FTP protocol 
to tell the FTP daemon which server you've logged into.

Mail doesn't matter.  You just create an A record for <mail.my.domain.com>, 
pointing to your main IP# for the box.  Then point an MX record to 
<mail.my.domain.com>.  The user logs into <mail.my.domain.com> to get his mail.

> I need about 20 subdomains as seperate web sites and it's driving me
> nuts!

To get complete functionality, including both anonymous FTP AND secure 
hosting, you need individual IP#s.

Jeff

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