RE: [cobalt-users] [RaQ550] DNS config: Domain accessible without www

["Robert Roose" <robertr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't believe that this is THE workaround for the DNS problem.

I've got a virtual site with www. In that virtual site I added an alias
for the servername (without www). 
Note: apache's working fine. It's the DNS that's been giving me a
headache by failing to add such a simple A record.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robin Edgar - Tripany [mailto:red@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: woensdag 18 september 2002 13:30
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [cobalt-users] [RaQ550] DNS config: Domain 
> accessible without www
> 
> 
> (NB this is for a RaQ4)
> If you want a virtual site without the 'www' in front, create 
> it like you would a normal site, except as email server + web 
> server alias fill in "domain.ext" as well. Then you need to 
> ssh in to the machine, and in /home/sites/ add a link to 
> domain.ext (ln -s /home/sites/siteXX /home/sites/domain.ext) 
> edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and change the following:
> 
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}                !^domain.ext(:80)?$
> RewriteRule ^/(.*)                      http://domain.ext/$1 [L,R]
> RewriteOptions inherit
> AliasMatch ^/~([^/]+)(/(.*))? /home/sites/domain.ext/users/$1/web/$3
> 
> (there should have been a 'www' before 'domain.ext' or 
> whatever you filled in as 'host name' in the administrator)
> 
> Then you need to do the same for the sitemanager
> ln -s /usr/admserv/html/.cobalt/siteManage/siteXX
> /usr/admserv/html/.cobalt/siteManage/domain.ext
> 
> (don't need to edit the /etc/admserv/conf/httpd.conf!)
> 
> As far as I remember you don't need to change anything in the 
> mail aliases database...
> 
> Best regards,
> Robin Edgar
> Tripany
> 
> ----------------------
> Quoted:
> 
> 
> Subject: [cobalt-users] [RaQ550] DNS config: Domain 
> accessible without www
> Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Hiya,
> 
> I've been trying to make my domains accessible even without 
> the www in front of it. Normally when I want to do this I 
> just make an extra A record with the domain name and point it 
> to the same IP coz my virtual host has an alias.
> 
> But on the 550 when I create an A record without www in front 
> of it it gives me the following error:
> 
> "An identical domain name record already exists"
> 
> WTF?? Ping to domain.nl gives no reply and no IP ping 
www.domain.nl gives me a reply.

My conclusion is that I need to make it an A record but the
administration page won't let me.

I'll paste one of the zone files here.

; db.domain.nl
;
; This file was automatically generated by dns_generate.pl.  Do not ;
edit this file directly.  If you need to make additions to this ; file
that CCE does not support, add your extra records to the ;
db.domain.nl.include file.

$TTL 86400
domain.nl. IN SOA ns1.ourhost.nl. admin.ns1.ourhost.nl. (
        1032339181 ; serial number
        10800 ; refresh
        3600 ; retry
        604800 ; expire
        86400 ; ttl
        )
domain.nl.      IN      NS      ns1.ourhost.nl.
domain.nl.      IN      NS      ns2.ourhost.nl.

www.domain.nl.  in a xx.xx.xxx.xxx
mail.domain.nl. in a xx.xx.xxx.xxx
www.domain.nl.  in mx 20 mail.domain.nl.
domain.nl.      in mx 20 mail.domain.nl.

; User customizations go in this include file:
$INCLUDE db.domain.nl.include


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