Re: [cobalt-users] Redirect newdomain,com to mydomain.com/newdomain on RAQ3 ? Will PAY

["Steve Bassi" <Steve@xxxxxxxxx>]

I would like to thank Roger for details set out below which work perfectly
I appreciate the time and effort in writing up the instructions.

Roger you are a STAR

THANKS

Best Regards

Steve Bassi
London UK
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Harrison" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 1:32 AM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Redirect newdomain,com to mydomain.com/newdomain
on RAQ3 ? Will PAY


> On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Steve Bassi wrote:
>
> > On my RAQ 3 I have 1 IP address.
> > my domain is fwsshop.com
> > I have a domain moorsoft.com whose pages will be stored in
> > fwsshop.com/moorsoft
> > I do not want to set up a new virtual host
> > But I need  anyone browsing for moorsoft.com to reach
fwsshop.com/moorsoft
>
> OK, this is the way that I do it.
>
> First of all, rather than mapping moorsoft.com to fwsshop.com/moorsoft I
> would create a user for fwsshop.com called moorsoft (or something similar,
> can be whatever username you like). I would then map the domain to the
> /users/moorsoft/web directory under fwsshop. Doing it this way makes it
> easy to deal with email for moorsoft.com. If you are not concerned with
> that then just go ahead and do it to fwsshop.com/moorsfoft.
>
> First telnet/SSH in to your Raq as root.
> Then create an include file for httpd.conf:
> touch /etc/httpd/conf/include.conf
>
> Then back up your httpd.conf file:
> cp /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.backup
> Then open httpd.conf for editing:
> pico -w /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
>
> Where you have something like:
> NameVirtualHost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> <VirtualHost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx>
> ServerName www.fwsshop.com
> .....
> </VirtualHost>
>
> add the following line before the NameVirtualHost bit:
> Include /etc/httpd/conf/include.conf
>
> so it now reads:
>
> Include /etc/httpd/conf/include.conf
>
> NameVirtualHost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> <VirtualHost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx>
> ServerName www.fwsshop.com
> .....
> </VirtualHost>
>
> At this point it's a good idea to restart httpd just to make sure that
> the server is happy with the changes to the httpd.conf file:
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart
>
> Assuming you don't get any errors with restarting, open include.conf
> for editing:
> pico -w /etc/httpd/conf/include.conf
>
> Then make an entry for fwsshop.com as follows:
>
> <VirtualHost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx>
> ServerName www.moorsoft.com
> ServerAdmin admin
> DocumentRoot /home/sites/sitex/users/moorsoft/web
> ServerAlias moorsoft.com
> AddHandler cgi-wrapper .cgi
> AddHandler cgi-wrapper .pl
> # Uncomment next 2 lines if you want to use SSI
> #AddHandler server-parsed .shtml
> #AddType    text/html     .shtml
> </VirtualHost>
>
> Then exit and save the file.
>
> Obviously you might have to modify this if you didn't set up moorsoft as a
> user. The sitex bit is the site number of fwsshop.com
>
> Then restart httpd:
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart
>
> Obviously you will need to set up A records for moorsoft.com and
> www.moorsoft.com.
>
> If you want all email for moorsoft.com to go to the moorsoft user see:
> http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-users/2000-September/021152.html
>
> One bonus of doing it with a user called moorsoft is that moorsoft can use
> separate FTP to log in to upload files and can also go to
> http://www.fwsshop.com/personal/ and enter his user name and password to
> get to the Personal Profile. So he can act as an independent site, but is
> not taking up one of the virtual sites in your main GUI.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Roger Harrison
>
> PS I hope I haven't made any glaring errors with the above, but as it is
> 1.30am here and I still haven't fully recovered from being up most of
> Sunday night trying to prevent my parents' house from flooding, I can't
> guarantee it....
>
>