You can pretty easily make "www.rea.white.... Work..... I do this routinely. If I add a subdomain intended for run of the mill users I also add a "www. Entry for it in DNS and the host header as well... Another approach is to use a wildcard entry with a dedicated IP.
-mk -----Original Message----- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 10:16 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Advice needed on how to proceed with app... Now, after our little Farcry sidebar (which I have no plans to use, cause I like to build my own, even while simpler, at least I understand it and can troubleshoot it much easier)... back to my original question, or at least a continuation thereof... If I decide to take this approach: - Build Custom Front Ends - Build a CMS for all relevant sites to use - Build a database for each client's site The next question that comes to mind is how to structure the domains / subdomains for the CMS's. If I'm *only* doing a CMS for Real Estate agents, then I can create a subdomain for my domain, whitestonemedia.com, called REA.WhiteStoneMedia.com, and send them all to that for content management. I found that using subdomains like this confuses many clients who think that www has to be in there somewhere, and they end up trying to go to www.REA.WhiteStoneMedia.com, which, of course, doesn't work and leads to phone calls from them trying to figure out why they can't access their sites... If I build a CMS for churches (my next project) and their sites, then I could use a subdomain called, say, CMS.WhiteStoneMedia.com (Church Management System for this particular CMS acronym), and send my client's there for content management. Is this the way to go? Or should I have dedicated domains for each category of site, such as www.RealEstateSiteManager.com for agents and www.ChurchSiteManager.com for churches. It would be nice, and feel more personal to the client if I could tie their domain name into the CMS name, somehow. Perhaps this where Aliases in DNS come into play? Let's say I have a single site manager for Real Estate agents, then an agent's site called www.StrickfordHomes.com. For their site manager, I use a subdomain called cms.StrickfordHomes.com. I then use an alias and forward them to my overall CMS site for Real Estate agents, called REA.WhiteStoneMedia.com. Would that be a better approach? Or is there a better way (probably) that I haven't considered, yet? Rick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:262598 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
