RE: [cobalt-users] hosts other than www

["Dan Kriwitsky" <webhosting@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Hi, I have a RaQ3 and I wish to set up virtual sites with
> subdomains off my
> existing domain, ie. I want site1.mydomain.com to be a seperate site to
> www.mydomain.com.
>
> I am using my ISP's DNS (because I thought it would make things
> easier) so I
> asked them to add a wildcard entry; *.mydomain.com and point it to my
> servers IP, which they did.
>
> I have added a virtual site (using 'server management') with
> domain name as
> mydomain.com and the hostname set to site1 (Web Access by domain
> is set OFF)
>
> Problem is when I go to site1.mydomain.com on my browser I get "Server Not
> Found" error.
>
> What have I not done? I would have thought that the wildcard entry in the
> DNS would ensure any subdomain requests would get pointed to my server...
>
> The DNS is enabled on my server, but my domain is set up for my ISPs DNS
> servers.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>

Have you tried to check to see if the nameservers are actually working for
site1.domain.com by using a tool like Net Demon? If they did set up
*.domain.com to point http://www.netdemon.net/ (I see you're using Outlook
Express so I'm guessing you're on a Win98 machine). If they set up a
wildcard, I think that typing anything.domain.com should get you whatever
site would show up if you had just typed in the IP address.

If DNS is enabled on your server, you can just add an A record for
site1.domain.com --> IP address. Then, if it's set properly in the
httpd.conf it should work.
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Dan Kriwitsky