On Nov 6, 2007 2:01 PM, jan gestre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 6, 2007 1:24 PM, Michael Tinsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Point your DNS entries for both sites to the same ip address. > > > I added a forwarders option in named.conf pointing to the ISP's dns, > but did not resolve the issue. >
This will not really help. Do you have control over the DNS entries of the domain? As Michael have mentioned both oldsite and newsite should have at least the same IP. > > In your webserver, enable virtual hosting. Make two virtual hosts pointed > > to the same document root folder. > > I have no control over the webfiles and the oldsite is no longer up. > Another thing that they want to happen is even though the oldsite is > no longer up, every request to www.oldsite.com will redirect to > www.newsite.com but the url of www.oldsite.com will be retained. I > have no idea on how to do this. Do have control over the config files of the server where your newsite is hosted? If yes, you can use Apache's mod_rewrite to redirect to the domain you want. Hth. 'Jopoy _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
