Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ 2 - name-based

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan wrote:

> The only difference there I believe would be, (correct me if I'm wrong), the
> "alias" domain name would still show in the browser window using that
> method. e.g., if the main site was www.domain.com and the "extra" domain was
> www.whatever.com, pointing www.whatever.com to the IP of www.domain.com on a
> RaQ using just DNS and not making any changes to the httpd.conf will cause
> the domain to show www.domain.com in the address bar instead of
> www.whatever.com.
> This might be a problem with some CGI scripts that are set to only work for
> www.domain.com and not www.whatever.com. This only seems to work on the same
> RaQ server since pointing the DNS to the IP of a site off of the RaQ leaves
> that domain name in the address bar unless changes to the httpd.conf file
> are made.

Mostly this occurs because the RaQ /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file uses
Rewrite.  Most of us who set up systems by hand don't.

Jeff
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