On Feb 15, 2008 2:44 PM, Paul G. Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Todd Walton wrote: > > Does anybody have an opinion they'd like to share on redirecting > > requests for "example.com" to "www.example.com"? Is there some best > > practices thing I'm not aware of? Seems to me that it only makes > > sense. > > > > Our hosted web sites all contain DNS records such as the following: > > $ORIGIN dreampark3d.net. > * A 12.184.45.99 > mail A 12.184.45.101 > > > Our Apache web server then has virtual host entries such as: > > <VirtualHost ***.***.***.***:80> > ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] > DocumentRoot *******/dreampark3d.net > ServerName dreampark3d.net > > > > ServerAlias www.dreampark3d.net d13271.u29.greenesthost.com > > > We can add additional names to ServerAlias if needed. The DNS record > makes every domain name ending in dreampark3d.net, with the exception of > mail.dreampark3d.net, resolve to the web server. Apache, listening on > port 80, looks for an alias for <hostname>.dreampark3d.net. Anything > listed in the ServerAlias line gets resolved to this virtual server. Any > other host names end up returning a default Apache web page. > dreampark3d.net also resolves to this virtual server. > > (Note: The d13271.u29.greenesthost.com above is a temporary domain alias > that is used while DNS records are updated by domain registrars so that > people can get to their web sites and set them up before the records are > updated/propagated.) > > Another VirtualHost could be set up to serve up pages for other virtual > hosts at dreampark3d.net. So, the above would act as a default for > http://dreampark3d.net, and then I could have another with a > "ServerAlias paul.dreampark3d.net" if I wanted a web site specific to > me, and yet another if I wanted a site specific to David (ServerAlias > david.dreampark3d.net). > > PGA > -- > Paul G. Allen, BSIT/SE > Network Administrator > Greenest Host > www.greenesthost.com
Good summary Paul, That might be a good thing to put in the wiki. BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
