Re: [cobalt-users] How to reach a virual site

["Steven Werby" <steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert MONTORI <r.monto@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On my cobalt when i create a new virtual site for example www.mydomain.com
> at what adresse i can see this site until it is create on Nic and known in
> DNS
> i try
> ipadress/home/site/www.mydomain.com/
> www.themainsite.com/home/site/www.mydomain.com/
>
> and so on
> Does anybody understand my question (sorry for my english) and can give me
> teh answer.

Your English isn't any worse than many people I know whose native language is
English.  <smile>  There are several solutions.  They can all be found in the Cobalt
Users archives online if you want to search for them.  Using the example you
provided, my favorite solution is to create the site as "mydomain.themainsite.com"
and give the client access to that site.  Don't forget to add it to the DNS.  Once I
see that it has been added to the root name servers I then go back into the GUI and
change the site to "www.mydomain.com".  If you're comfortable in the shell (telnet or
ssh), you could alternately setup the site as "www.mydomain.com" and then edit the
VirtualHost containter in httpd.conf for that site and add ServerAlias
mydomain.themainsite.com to it and then add that record in the DNS.  Once the root
server DNS propogates you could then get rid of the ServerAlias line and the DNS
record associated with it.  After editing httpd.conf you'll need to restart httpd.
Since it's slightly different on the RaQ2 than the RaQ3 and you didn't say what you
are using check the archives.  The archives are your friend!

Steven Werby {steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx}