Search Again: Re: making workbook.com point to www.workbook.com From: Global Homes Webmaster Date: Tuesday, May 8, 2001 Time: 3:50:38 pm On 05/08/01 at 15:41, Peggy Thomson wrote: > >on 5/8/01 3:17 PM, Stephen Chiang wisely articulated: > > > >> I am trying to create a load balance record for workbook.com so > >> that when people type in workbook.com in the URL field, > >> www.workbook.com will automatically pop up. What is the correct way > >> to configure QDNS 2.2.1 to do this? When I added a load balance > >> record called workbook.com I had to take that record out > >> immediately because as soon as I did that, the QDNS server stopped > >> replying to queries. After I did that, I created a cname record > >> for workbook.com and directed that at www.workbook.com. That > >> didn't work either. Any suggestions? > > Why not just have workbook.com point to a different folder in > Webstar, and in that folder, put a redirect to www.workbook.com. > That seems like the easiest way to do it. That works for the index page but not for other URLs, unless you put a redirect in the workbook.com folder for each page on the www.workbook.com site. For it to work for all pages (URLs) on the site, you need either something like a Welcome rule to rewrite and redirect the URLs dynamically, or an error page for workbook.com that's something like a WebSiphon (or any of the other dynamic content plug-ins/cgis) script that intelligently redirects requests to the corresponding www.workbook.com URLs. As another poster has already pointed out, this is not something that can be handled through DNS -- workbook.com. and www.workbook.com. are different hosts as far as DNS is concerned. It needs to be done by the web server. Christopher Bort

Messages In This Thread: making workbook.com point to www.workbook.com by Stephen Chiang on May 8, 2001 at 1:17:40 pm Re: making workbook.com point to www.workbook.com by Steve Boley on May 8, 2001 at 1:45:28 pm Re: making workbook.com point to www.workbook.com by Philip Butler on May 8, 2001 at 1:49:31 pm Re: making workbook.com point to www.workbook.com by Stephen Chiang on May 8, 2001 at 1:59:06 pm Re: making workbook.com point to www.workbook.com by Matthew Seifert on May 8, 2001 at 2:14:34 pm Re: making workbook.com point to www.workbook.com by Jeff Folk on May 8, 2001 at 2:36:01 pm Re: making workbook.com point to www.workbook.com by Peggy Thomson on May 8, 2001 at 2:39:21 pm Re: making workbook.com point to www.workbook.com by Stephen Chiang on May 8, 2001 at 2:51:15 pm Re: making workbook.com point to www.workbook.com by Peggy Thomson on May 8, 2001 at 3:00:30 pm Re: making workbook.com point to www.workbook.com by Global Homes Webmaster on May 8, 2001 at 3:50:38 pm Re: making workbook.com point to www.workbook.com by Steve Boley on May 8, 2001 at 6:55:56 pm Re: making workbook.com point to www.workbook.com by Steve Boley on May 8, 2001 at 7:05:19 pm Re: making workbook.com point to www.workbook.com by Men & Mice Support on May 8, 2001 at 9:46:42 pm Re: making workbook.com point to www.workbook.com by Global Homes Webmaster on May 9, 2001 at 9:54:24 am