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Re: [cobalt-users] Raq4 - point domain to users external webspace

Message: 14
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 06:48:57 +0100
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Raq4 - point domain to users external webspace
From: Revd leonard payne <vicarage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

on 23/4/01 2:29 pm, Brian M. Rahill at brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>> Paul,
>>
>>> A client of mine just wants me to manage his domain and email with no
>>> hosting. I have to forward his domain to his webspace on
>>> another server. How can I do this without using Meta Tags or JavaScript?
>>>
>>> Can I do it via the DNS GUI?

AFAIK you cannot set A records to an external webspace that has no IP
address
of it's own, therefore this, I believe will be impossible through the Admin
GUI.

>>
>> In DNS you could make A records that point to the IP address of your
>> clients server.  It's not really a forward...it's better than that.  You
>> are basically just providing DNS for him/her.
>>
>> www.clientsdomain.com  >>>  123.123.123.123 (client's server IP address)
>> cleintsdomain.com  >>> 123.123.123.123 (client's server IP address)

>Thats fine - but what about when the only web space is free stuff, where
>you're not given any IP address but just a URL like
>www.paynefamily.freeserve.net  ?

>I'm not sure how to forward tp this although I know a number of folks who
do
>?
The only way I could see for you to achieve this would be through "gripping
the
external webspace inside a frameset with 2rows set as such;
<HTML><HEAD>
<title>Your Title</title>
</HEAD>
	<FRAMESET ROWS="100%,*" FRAMESPACING=0 FRAMEBORDER=0 BORDER=0>
		<FRAME SRC="http://www.yourdomain.com/"; SCROLLING="AUTO" NORESIZE
FRAMEBORDER=0 BORDER=0 MARGINHEIGHT=0 MARGINWIDTH=0>
		<noframes>
		<BODY BGCOLOR="#000000">
		<font face="verdana" color="navy" size="2">
		<center>
			Your browser does not support frames.<BR>
			To view our web site click here:<BR>
			<a href="http://www.yourdomain.com";>
		http://www.yourdomain.com </a></h2>
		</center></font>
		</BODY>
	</noframes>
</FRAMESET>


</HTML>

>Regards
>Revd Leonard

Regards

Si Watts
http://www.siwis.com