[cobalt-users] help with a Web problem?

[John K Mitchell <johnm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In message <20040127200004.12179.91339.Mailman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, 
cobalt-users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes
> > An idea on this is to set up subdomains. You would not have to purchase
> > another domain,
> > And each subdomain would have its on site on the raq, fully manageable
> > by each department w/o anyone being able to mess up each other's sites.
> >
> > E.g.
> > dept1.nomealaska.org as a site on the raq
> > dept2.nomealaska.org as another site.
> >
> > You would enter these into the DNS server for nomealsaka.org and have
> > them point to the one ip you are using. These would then just be virtual
> > sites on the same ip.
> >
> > If you want the same look and feel on these sites, simple copy over the
> > site template.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Vidar
>
> Aha!  This sounds about right! Whew, glad I asked. Thanks.. I have
> something to search on now but should be pretty easy.
> Ewww, just thought about all those links I'm going to have to change on
> the webpage...

Can you not use a re-direct on the departmental pages to send visitors 
to the new subdomains?

Or maybe you could use a rewrite rule in the httpd configuration file.

Cheers

John
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