Re: [cobalt-users] direct domain to specific URL

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kevin D wrote:

> A company called Domain Direct (www.domaindirect.com) is able to point a
> particular domain name to any URL. For example, they could point www.bob.com
> to http://www.geocities.com/bobspage/bobpage.html so that when someone types
> www.bob.com into their web browser they are redirected to
> http://www.geocities.com/bobspage/bobpage.html
> 
> We want to offer a client this same service via our Raq3i. We don't want to
> do this through any kind of web page redirect (ie meta tag or javascript
> redirect) if we can avoid it. How would we accomplish this? (is there
> special software?)

Well, there's no way to do it in DNS alone, if that's what you mean.

You can either do it using Apache (using Apache's redirect, or using a
meta tag or javascript redirect), or you can write your own program to
read port 80, direct all the sites there, and have it do table lookups
(perhaps using MYSQL) and send the redirects out that way.

Jeff
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