RE: [cobalt-users] Setting up virtual sites with the same domain

["Clark E. Morgan" <prlhkr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Thanks Clarke,
> I really appreciate your help.
> I am however a little confused to the terms you are using, probably due to
> the fact I am not a native english speaker.
> What is a 'root (hostless) domain name' ? I think I might need
> step-by-step
> help on this :-/  I looked in the raq 3 manual for how to set up
> subdomains
> like this, but could find no explicit information how to do this,
> so I feel
> kinda lost on how to approach this. :-)
>
> Ove Klykken
Ove,

That's alright, "root" domain isn't really the right word anyway. Here's a
better explanation though.

Let's say you have a domain known as thisdomain.com

It's truly unique and there is no other like it in all the world; but you
need to have more than one location for this domain, either virtual or
physical, so you setup different hosts; such as

mail.thisdomain.com
www.thisdomain.com
atlanta.thisdomain.com

etc. depending on your needs. so the last two sections in the examples above
denote a domain or a network and the first section denotes a host within
that domain or network. This is the common practice for doing what you are
trying to do; but only one of these hosts (www, mail, atlanta) can answer
queries directed to thisdomain.com. When you setup a new site on a raq3 (it
may be slightly different on a raq4, someone help me out if this is the
case), you have two checkboxes of interest - "Accept E-mail for domain" and
"Web Access by domain". You can (and should) check both of these boxes on
one of the sites; but you can only check them on one host, not the other 2
(or more) because if you do check them on more than one, then the raq
doesn't know which host to deliver for requests of mail or httpd. Don't
forget that you will want to modify your dsn also for all of this to work
correctly. Guess it wouldn't help much, guessing from your last name; but I
can give it to you in Spanish if you need it.

Luck to ya,

Clark E. Morgan