Re: [cobalt-users] A few questions!

[Bruce Timberlake <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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> I made a couple of posts to the list yesterday that have not been
> distributed to the list, is this really the end of the cobalt users
> list?

The list server's been operating intermittently for the last few 
days... take it for whatever sign of things to come you wish...

> If so where are all of the regulars going to go - cobaltfacts?

That's where I will be going, until/unless something better comes 
along. :)

> I want to setup a sub domain for and a virtual site for
>
> - www.mysiteA.co.uk
> as
> - xyz.mysiteA.co.uk
>
> Problem is that I have done this, and it don't work.

So you want two totally separate virtual sites?

> I can telnet into the server using the IP and make a successful get
> request specifying the host in the http request. So i'm guessing
> that this is a DNS issue. Surely the DNS would have resolved by
> now?

Depends on when you made these entries. Generally 24-48 hours is 
sufficient; sometimes it could take up to 72 hours, maybe even more, 
to get around the entire internet...

I'm unclear on what the problem is, though... what happens when you 
put www.mysiteA.co.uk into your browser? xyz.mysiteA.co.uk?  (What is 
the desired/expected result for each?)

> To clear that up I changed the DNS servers on my local windows
> PC to that of the web server, still no joy!

That won't do anything unless your RaQ is serving DNS info for both 
virtual sites.  Is it?

What DNS records (regardless of where they are being hosted) have you 
created for each virtual site?

> I searched the archives, google, apache forums and could not find
> what I was looking for. Confirmation that I can NOT setup a sub
> domain with a its own virtual site on the same IP as the main
> domain and its site?

Incorrect. You can set up 'unlimited' virtual sites, each with a 
unique hostname, on a single IP.  Limitations are only the standard 
ones: SSL, Anonymous FTP, and Bandwidth Management require either a 
unique IP for each virtual site which needs the service, or only one 
virtual site per IP can have each service enabled.

You can't have multiple virtual sites sharing the same 'base' domain 
all set to accept mail for the domain.  You have to decide, for 
example, if www.mysiteA.co.uk will be the mail server for all 
mysiteA.co.uk domains.

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Bruce Timberlake

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