Re[2]: [cobalt-users] A few questions

[Richard Kurth <rkurth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Steven,

Sunday, July 30, 2000, 11:41:13 AM, you wrote:

SW> Richard Kurth <rkurth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I need to know how to allow my customers that are named based (not me) to view
SW> there web pages
>> before the registration of there domain name filters down.
>>
>>
>> For any of you that have been doing this for awhile what is the best
>> way to set up the structure of you hosting sit.

SW> Personally, I think the easiest way is to create a name-based site named
SW> "domain.mainsite.tld" where "domain" is the domain name of the client's site
SW> that you will be hosting.  Create the DNS, create a siteadmin and give the
SW> client access.  Then wait a few days, change the site name to "www.domain.tld",
SW> add the correct DNS, remove the old DNS and you're done.  Alternately you could
SW> add the new DNS when you setup the site in the first place and add
SW> "ServerAlias domain.tld www.domain.tld" (without the quotes) to the VirtualHost
SW> container for "domain.mainsite.tld" in httpd.conf and then restart the httpd
SW> daemon.

My problem with this is when you create the site this way. The client
starts adding web pages to that directory and when you change it in a
few days domain.com  do you not have to move all his stuff to the new
directory structure that it creates.