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Re: [cobalt-users] Redirection to extended urls
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Redirection to extended urls
- From: Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed Jan 17 20:08:02 2001
- Organization: nobaloney.net
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
George Ewing wrote:
> Guys,
>
> I need to be able to do a redirection (cname) to an extended url.
>
> Example
> www.yourdomain.com --->> www.top-host.net/~sandy
>
> Whenever I try and apply this via my RAQ3 control panel, tells me to go away.
That's because a CNAME can only point to another valid DNS entry,
preferably an A record. It can be hosted anywhere, but it has to be a
valid DNS entry. A URL with a directory in it is NOT a valid DNS entry.
Jeff
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