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mactac
Joined: 09 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 2:03 pm Post subject: A very easy question (I hope) |
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I have a whole ton of domains that I'd like to point at a website.
for example, domain xyz.com should end up bringing up website abc.com (with abc.com in the bowser address bar).
I'm using debian/apache2
Now, I could go & make a ton of websites with a redirect on them, but then I'd have to add a ton of sites into sites_available virtual host entries, plus make a bunch of redirects.
Is there an easier way, perhaps with dns?
I'm a bit of a noob here, so syntax would be most helpful.
thanks! |
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pclissold
Joined: 24 Oct 2003
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Location: Netherlands
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| Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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Use DNS:
Code: abc.com. A 12.34.56.78
uvw.com. CNAME abc.com.
xyz.com. CNAME abc.com. |
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mactac
Joined: 09 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 2:37 pm Post subject: |
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pclissold wrote: Use DNS:
Code: abc.com. A 12.34.56.78
uvw.com. CNAME abc.com.
xyz.com. CNAME abc.com.
perfect. thanks ! |
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mactac
Joined: 09 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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| wait - is this in the dns record for abc.com or xyz.com? |
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hoopycat
Joined: 30 Aug 2008
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Location: Rochester, New York
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| Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 3:07 pm Post subject: |
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pclissold wrote: Use DNS:
Code: abc.com. A 12.34.56.78
uvw.com. CNAME abc.com.
xyz.com. CNAME abc.com.
That would only work if placed in the .com zone, which is probably exceedingly unlikely. Also, it wouldn't solve the telling-Apache-about-it problem.
You're going to end up needing to create each domain individually in the DNS manager, but you can use ServerAlias in Apache to specify alternate names for a virtual host:
Code: ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com
ServerAlias example.org
ServerAlias www.example.org
...
I believe there's an option in Apache that'll have it redirect requests for ServerAliases to the ServerName, too, but it's been awhile and I can't recall what it is. (If not, mod_redirect would work too.) |
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GrunkaLunka
Joined: 21 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 6:09 pm Post subject: Re: A very easy question (I hope) |
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mactac wrote: for example, domain xyz.com should end up bringing up website abc.com (with abc.com in the bowser address bar).
This part won't work with pure DNS, will it?. I think you're gonna have to do Apache redirects. |
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jed
Joined: 28 Mar 2009
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Location: New Jersey
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| Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 8:34 am Post subject: |
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pclissold wrote: Use DNS:
Code: uvw.com. CNAME abc.com.
xyz.com. CNAME abc.com.
The DNS Manager won't let you do specifically that, due to a strict reading of RFC 1912 section 2.4. If it were www.uvw.com, it would work. |
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pclissold
Joined: 24 Oct 2003
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Location: Netherlands
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| Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 9:05 am Post subject: |
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jed wrote: pclissold wrote: Use DNS:
Code: uvw.com. CNAME abc.com.
xyz.com. CNAME abc.com.
The DNS Manager won't let you do specifically that, due to a strict reading of RFC 1912 section 2.4. If it were www.uvw.com, it would work.
I took the examples from mactac's question -- I should have been more careful / specific. |
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