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

[Christian Bonanno <cbonanno@xxxxxxxxx>]

> 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.

OK. Did this. Created a DNS record for pagedesign.chapelhillarts.com 
-> www.chapelhillarts.com

> 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 have the httpd.conf file --- GREEK ---- Do I add the following?

#<VirtualHost host.some_domain.com>
#ServerAdmin webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
#DocumentRoot /www/docs/host.some_domain.com
#ServerName host.some_domain.com
#ErrorLog logs/host.some_domain.com-error_log
#TransferLog logs/host.some_domain.com-access_log
#</VirtualHost>

> 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.

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> -k
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Regards,
Christian

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