[cobalt-users] 4R - Web Redirection OT

["David" <dew@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Message: 6
From: "Richard Sidlin" <dns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Cobalt List" <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 16:59:40 -0000
Subject: [cobalt-users] 4R - Web Redirection
Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I have a domain setup and the owner requires it to point to his other
site that is hosted elsewhere. I did a ping on it's www address but if I
point my DNS to that address, it points to a different site on that IP
address.

What to do?

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Hi Richard,

I thought the error 404 suggestion was an interesting approach, not my
choice however.

Simply create a basic index.html file
with a meta refresh tag in the head section.

Ex:
<META http-equiv=refresh content="0;
url=http://www.someplaceintexas.com";></HEAD>
The body is blank.

This is fast with very low overhead as opposed to error handling by the
server.
Just my .02

What is happening is the other site is a virtual site with several sites
sharing the
ip address.  You see the root site assigned to that address and are required
to
use the name based site to see the virtual sites.

David