Search Again: Re: making workbook.com point to www.workbook.com From: Steve Boley Date: Tuesday, May 8, 2001 Time: 7:05:19 pm Christopher, I have to, IMHO, disagree. This can and is handled by DNS. However, and maybe this is what you meant, it is not handled solely by DNS. As you point out you have 2 hosts and as such your server needs to be able to recognize both hosts, but you still need the DNS to get it there. I base this on the assistance I received from Chris Buxton from Men & Mice on this very issue. The easiest way t do it is just add an A record pointing to your servers IP address and create a virtual host on the server that shares the same index file etc. It must take all of 5 minutes. Steve Boley NetWizard Design (651)365-1144 Fax: (612) 632-6170 URL: www.netwizarddesign.com E-Mail: Steve@netwizarddesign.com "We put your business online." on 5/8/01 5:49 PM, Global Homes Webmaster at webmaster@globalhomes.com wrote: > 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