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> Chris Buxton
Re: WWW Domain Name Resolution Problem
From: Dan Kirsch
Date: Friday, August 17, 2001
Time: 1:39:15 pm
> Subject: Re: WWW Domain Name Resolution Problem
> From: "Men & Mice Support" <cbuxton@menandmice.com>
> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 06:38:02 -0700
>
> Do you have both the zone name and www.zone defined in your DNS data?
> In other words, for the zone example.com, you might create the
> following records:
>
> example.com. A 192.168.0.1
> www.example.com. CNAME example.com.
>
> Alternatively, you could use these two records:
>
> example.com. A 192.168.0.1
> www.example.com. A 192.168.0.1
>
> Either way, the result is essentially the same.
>
And Jeff Folk wrote:
>
> Subject: Re: WWW Domain Name Resolution Problem
> From: "Jeff Folk" <jfolk@qzoneinc.com>
> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 08:38:18 -0500
>
> on 8/17/01 11:21 AM, Dan Kirsch wisely articulated:
>
> > I'm wondering if there is something that I need to check in QuickDNS as
> > so far I've been unable to find anything that has been missed in OSXS.
> > Given the GUI there to cover the Apache setup, my assumption would have
> > been that if I was able to access the site at all that the OSXS setup
> > would be complete (there is only one file location designation which is
> > supposed to cover both "www" and non-URL versions). Which leaves me
> > wondering if I've simply missed something during the QuickDNS setup?
>
> As long as you have DNS set up to resolve www.domain.x and domain.x then the
> problem will be in the virtual hosting setup of your webserver. I use
> Welcome on my Mac OS classic webserver to convert different iterations of
> the possible URLs to my sites.
>
> Just know that to a webserver with virtual hosts, www.domain.x is a
> different host from domain.x. You have to set them both up to serve from the
> respective folder.
>
> I hope this helps;
> Jeff
>
Actually, both of the above helped. Turns out that I did have it set up in QuickDNS
to do the alias, so that's not the problem.
Since I posted the message earlier, I've been playing with a variety of things. And
I think that Jeff nailed it on the head. In the OSXS Administrator's Guide it
provides an example entry to virtual site setup by telling you to enter site
"example.com" and nowhere does it mention entering a double domain listing by
entering one setup for example.com and another for www.example.com. I have since
tried a couple of my sites and since I added a duplicate entry for each for
www.example.com, I can now access the sites both ways. I guess that means that
instead of having 75 site entries, I now have to have 150. Which sure makes me glad
that I didn't have 500 sites or so to begin with!
Thanks for the response!
Dan
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