Re: [cobalt-users] Formmail 1.9s (nobaloney ver), works on main site but no other sites

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Kriwitsky" <list1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 8:11 PM
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Formmail 1.9s (nobaloney ver), works on main site but no other sites


> > 
> > I am seeking a way to fix this by adding a DNS record or a 
> > script alias or something like that. As all my vsites have 
> > the old action code as below -
> > 
> > We originally had the server called 'gold' now the server is 
> > simply 'www'.
> > 
> > The reason virtual sites don't work with formmail is the 
> > action in the forms is from the old server name - <form 
> > name="form1" method="post" 
> > action="http://gold.mainsite.com/cgi-bin/formmail.cgi";>
> > 
> > With the new server name any virtual site and the main site 
> > works 100% with - <form name="form1" method="post" 
> > action="http://www.mainsite.com/cgi-bin/formmail.cgi";>
> > 
> > Obviously I do not want to be editing and uploading new form 
> > pages for all my vsites. Anyway I can do this with a DNS 
> > record or a server side edit??
> > 
> 
> You could add gold.mainsite.com to DNS to point at the same IP and edit
> httpd.conf to add an identical virtual site record pointing to the same
> /home/sites/site#/web as the existing www site.
> You might be able to simply be able to go to the site settings for
> www.mainsite.com and add a web server alias of gold.mainsite.com instead
> of editing httpd.conf. I haven't tried that, so I don't know if you can
> have a different host name in the web server alias.
> 
> Of course, you could always simply create a new virtual site of
> gold.mainsite.com and upload the script there.
> -- 
> Dan Kriwitsky
> 
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>  
>
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