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On 05/08/01 at 21:04, Steve Boley wrote:
Re: making workbook.com point to www.workbook.com
From: Global Homes Webmaster
Date: Wednesday, May 9, 2001
Time: 9:54:24 am
> 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.
I was trying to address the original question, which was about how to set up a
web site so that when a user types 'workbook.com' in his/her browser, the URL
will change to 'www.workbook.com' _in the browser_. That's done with an HTTP
redirect, not with DNS. Yes, there is a DNS component to it, in that you need
to have the DNS to get you to the web server with either domain name, but
that's a side issue that I was not addressing. The redirect itself is
performed by the web server, not DNS.
Christopher Bort
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