Hi Terry, > We meant to ask this question last night, but neither Paul, nor myself > remembered it. > > We are currently going through a rebranding exercise at work and at the same > time moving chunks of our website from a hosted service to a local webserver. > > However, we only have one IP address for that server. > > Paul has purchased the domain names and dealt with the DNS side of things. > As > it stands all of our web addresses point to the same IP address, which > contains the core information at the top level. However, we have several sub- > domains which we would like to have automatically redirected when visitors > arrive, but we can't quite decide the best way to do it. In summary we have: > > Our IP Address: -> Web address 1 -> Top level content > -> Web address 2 -> /sub-directory > -> Sub-domain 1 > etc. > > We had this once before and used some kind of code in the header of Index. > html at the top level to do the redirection, but we know that there are other > ways to do it, such as Apache config, Javascript and so on. > > We would prefer to use the code in Index.html, but the original code got > washed out with the bathwater several rebrandings ago. We're not keen on > Javascript, because of the number of people who now browse with some kind of > Noscript set (as I do). > > Does anyone have any comments on the pros and cons of the various techniques > and perhaps give us some pointers? > If you're using Apache as webserver, it's probably mod-rewrite you need to have enabled, and update the config for the site to do the job.
- http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html Is the content static, or are you using some sort of database driven server side scripts to generate content (ie a CMS etc?). Some 'web frameworks' have their own internal routing which may be of use. I don't think you need javascript to do the job - as you say it's risky if folk have it switched off. It's hard to give pros and cons without knowing a bit more about the site, but by the sounds of it (serving different content depending on URL), mod-rewrite should be able to handle that. You may need to look into 'virtual hosts' if the base address is different, but i think a sub-domain can be configured inside the basic web server config if necessary. Oh - and Apache and Apache2 can do things slightly differently depending on how sites are set up. There's "sites-enabled/disabled" (look up a2ensite/a2dissite) on Apache2 for virtual hosts (ie different urls on the same IP address. nb SSL sites have to have their own IP address, unless on a sub-domain) Hope that helps, Stephen -- ______________________________ Stephen Wolff email: [email protected] mobile: (+44) 7801 261 466 Skype: stephendwolff linkedin.com/in/stephendwolff Max Gate Digital Ltd Consultancy - Projects - Services - Research - Software Development 39 Kingsbere Crescent Dorchester Dorset DT1 2DY _________________________________ Please consider the environment before printing this email -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-02-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
