Re: [cobalt-users] Frontpage setup using IP address only

["Carrie Bartkowiak" <ravencarrie@xxxxxxxx>]

Is there a way I can give a customer Frontpage access to a virtual domain
right
after I set it up (before the newly registered domain name propagates
through the
DNS's).
Tom

Tom,
Depends on which RaQ you're using. Let's say your user's domain is
www.foobar.com
and your server's domain is blue.com.
On a RaQ4, you can go into the site settings and in the Web Server Aliases
field, put this:
foobar.blue.com
Save Changes.
Then hop over to the Control Panel/DNS Parameters and add an A record for
foobar.blue.com, pointing to your server's IP addy.
foobar.blue.com --> 123.123.22.123 (or whatever your main IP is)
Save Changes
Save Changes again on the main screen (this will restart DNS)

Your customer can now set his web to connect to foobar.blue.com with
username:webmaster and whatever password you gave him.

On a RaQ3, it's a bit different.
You have to go into your httpd.conf file (/etc/httpd/conf) and scroll down
until you find the entry for foobar.com. In it, add this line:
ServerAliases foobar.blue.com

Save it and restart web services:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd.init restart
(On a RaQ4 this command is also a bit different, it's /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd
restart)
Then go do the DNS thing, adding an A record like I wrote above.

After that you should be good to go.

Hope this helps!  FP is short for F***ing Pain, ya know.  ;)
(Or if you're a Farscape nut like I am, it's a Frelling Pain...)

Carrie Bartkowiak