Re: [cobalt-users] non-virtual host help NEWBIE <:*)

[Kris Dahl <krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 4/19/00 4:28 PM, Christian Bonanno at cbonanno@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Cannot understand how to do this:
> My website is called chapelhillarts.com. I wish to give people
> yourname.chapelhillarts.com addresses for their web pages. I will
> have a few sites with their own IP but most will just point to
> http://www.chapelhillarts.com/~username/
> 
> Does anyone have the steps I need to do this?
>
> For example; do I have to register that name on internic? I need
> silly questions like that answered.

Well essentially, you've got a couple of things you're going to need to do.

Create a record in the DNS for each user.  You should be able to use a A or
CNAME record to point to the single IP that will be name-based virtual
hosting all this.

Then you create a virtual host record in apache to snag requests for
yourname.chapelhillarts.com and redirect it to /somewhere/on/the/filesystem
(which can be /home/sits/home/users/yourname/web, if you want).

This would require hacking the httpd.conf file on your own.

I would just take the approach that they are each their own site on the
rack.  Setup the DNS and add a new site.  Essentially the cobalt software
will set that all up for you.  Should be pretty straightforward.

-k