At 01:49 PM 08/13/2001 -0400, J.P.Pasnak wrote: >On August 13, 2001 10:10 am, George Petri wrote: >> > domainname.com is the actual domain. By purchasing it, you can make as >> > many names (www.domainname.com) and subdomains >> > (poptart.office.domainname.com) as you want. >> >> With "poptart.office.domainname.com", can it be >> www.poptart.office.domainname.com as well? Is there any advantage in >> leaving out the www bit (other than laziness on my part? :) > > >Most likely not. Yes, you could have a "subdomain of a subdomain of a domain". It is just a matter of adding the appropriate stuff to dns. As others have said previously, it is the way the DNS is >setup. In the above example, you would set up the following on your DNS >(general not specific): > >DNS >domainname.com = IP 24.70.x.5 >office.domainname.com = IP 24.70.x.6 >poptart.office.domainname.com = IP 24.70.x.6 > >So that when someone goes to 'domainname.com' they go to the server at >24.70.x.5, and when they go to 'office' or 'poptart.office' they go to the >server at 24.70.x.6. The webserver would handle 'office' and >'poptart.office' and ensure that they are sent to the proper directory. > >As I didn't mention 'www', you're now thoroughly confused. 'www' would >simply be an alias setup by the webserver, so you can access it different >ways. You webserver would be setup like: Nope....You can't use www unless it is in dns, so you can't have a name in apache's config file that isn't in dns. (Take a look at the httpd.conf file) >Webserver 1 >domainname.com = /var/www/html >alias = 'www' > >Webserver 2 >office.domainname = /var/www/html >poptart.office.domainname.com = /var/www/html2 > >So, in order for 'www.poptart.office.domainname.com' to work, an 'alias' >would have to be setup for the 'poptart.office.domainname.com' directory. Nope. www.poptart.office.domainname.com would have to be in dns, not configured as a directory. Take a look at a typical vhost for apache sometime--you can point any name for your machine to any directory you choose. Multiple dns names can point to the same directory. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems & Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida
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