RE: [cobalt-users] Mail with Subdomain.domain

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:54 PM 3/15/00 +0000, you wrote:

> OK...I've now set it up as
>
> Hostname        www
> domain  chat.cifc.org.uk
>
> It will now access the correct site as http://www.chat.cifc.org.uk but not
> http://chat.cifc.org.uk. I have access by domain name ticked.

Sounds like a zone file problem.

> I will ask my ISP for a copy of the zone file. Do I need to ask for a copy
> of the zone file for cifc.org.uk or chat.cifc.org.uk?

I hope your ISP is smart enough not to have a zone file for 
"chat.cifc.org.uk" <grin>.

> A subweb in FrontPage is quite simply a directory that can be accessed by
> FrontPage as a separate web. The user still sees it in their browser as say
> www.cifc.org.uk/subweb but frontpage will treat www.cifc.org.uk and
> www.cifc.org.uk/subweb as two different webs. This means that if you have
> any special scripts running in the subweb you can leave it alone whilst
> publishing to the main web - also you can FTP to the subweb, whilst
> publishing quite hapily to the main web, or any other subweb for that
> matter.
>
> This is of course very similar to how the cobalt gui will set up a user with
> a frontpage web except in that instance it will create the subweb as
> www.cifc.org.uk/~subweb which is not as nice as the URL normally associated
> with subwebs.

Thanks for the info.  Us old-timers just understand that "~anything" means 
we're looking at a user's directory <smile>.

Jeff

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