Re: [cobalt-users] how do you get a new member to upload without dns resolved?

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, AKYoung wrote:

> on 7/22/02 11:23 PM, Richard Hall wrote:
>
> > sorry the word shit can conjur flaming. i see it and hear it all the time in
> > usa movies, and sorry if this upsets you good folk.
> >
> > thanks though for pointing this out to me
> >
> > still need to know how one tells a client to go to http:// addy without
> > their sit ebeing resolved .
>
> You need to the following:
>
> Access your httpd.conf (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf).  Best way is via ssh.
> Make a copy of your httpd.conf file, just in case you screw things up (cp
> httpd.conf httpd.conf.old)
> Find your clients site, then in their configuration you'll find the
> following line:
>    AliasMatch ^/~([^/]+)(/(.*))? /home/sites/site1/users/$1/web/$3
> Add the following line after the line above
>    AliasMatch ^/sites/([^/]+)(/(.*))? /home/sites/$1/web/$3
>
> Save changes.
>
> Now your clients can access their site prior to propogation via the
> following url:
>    http://whateveryourservernameis/sites/www.theirdomain/
>
> Hope this helps

Don't forget /etc/rc.d/init.d/reload
and as someone said for ftp they can ftp
to any ip or site name. Just make sure to log in as the username password
and it will take them to that users site.

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