On Monday 12 Jan 2015 14:56:12 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Stephen's pointed you in what's probably the best direction, Apache
> configuration and virtual hosts, but I'm a bit confused what you're
> after.
>
> You've a bunch of domain names, all with DNS A records of 141.0.35.52,
> e.g. www.spherea-technology.co.uk. You want
> http://www.spherea-technology.co.uk to serve content that's currently
> visible at
> http://www.spherea-technology.co.uk/SphereaTechnology/Index.htm and
> likewise for all the other child companies. The URL visible in the
> browser should remain as the nicer looking domain name, so you don't
> want to re-direct the browser to the cruftier URL.
That's about right.
> Should the parent company URL that is the root content served by the
> webserver have access to the child-company subdirectories? Or are they
> just an artifact. Google's not too keen on identical content being
> repeated so you might want to remove it from the parent.
There's no repeated content, but there will be a link to our content from the
parent company site.
> I'd go for virtual hosts, including for the parent company, given all
> the domains are different and not subdomains in the normal DNS sense,
> but rather different domains for child companies. Come to that, why
> does the child-company content remain as subdirectories of the parent
> and not peers, one per website?
>
> Have the first `<VirtualHost *:80>' be a catch all for when the
> request's Host header doesn't match any ServerName or ServerAlias and
> have it `Redirect 404 /', otherwise bots that approach giving any old
> domain name will start crawling the whole site each time.
>
> Consider setting up DNS for spherea-technology.co.uk so it also accesses
> the same web server; many folk try the www-less version these days.
I've forwarded your comments to Paul, since he is the one who will do it
ultimately and he has never subscribed to the list (despite the fact that he's
a long-time attendee at the pub meets :-) ).
We've now decided to go the Apache Config route as suggested by several people,
(including one off-list). Paul just has to do it now :-)
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