I have a niche directory website that lists dozens of other related sites.
What would be the best way to determine if a web site is up/down so I can
programmatically make a site active or inactive? I was thinking of just
creating a scheduled task and using cfhttp and looking for a status code
of
the easiest way would be to CFHTTP the site and make sure you get a
valid response back and not an error or a timeout.
that is really the most reliable method and is how most of this uptime
services work.
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Che Vilnonis ch...@asitv.com wrote:
I have a niche
Have you look at the System Probes feature in the CF Admin?
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Che Vilnonis ch...@asitv.com wrote:
I have a niche directory website that lists dozens of other related sites.
What would be the best way to determine if a web site is up/down so I can
Russ, thanks for the +1
Ray, I have not. The site will be hosted on Railo so I don't believe that's
an option.
-Original Message-
From: Raymond Camden [mailto:raymondcam...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 9:51 AM
To: cf-talk
Subject: Re: Determining if multiple Sites are Up
This can be fine. However, depending on your needs, you might want to
use an external service for site monitoring. I've used siteuptime.com
for a while and it's proved very useful and easy to use. I've not used
it, but they have an API that may let you perform actions when sites
drop out, etc.
+1 for siteuptime.com.
I can get messages sent to my mobile phone that keep me
informed, even on the go.
-Original Message-
From: Dominic Watson [mailto:watson.domi...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 9:59 AM
To: cf-talk
Subject: Re: Determining if multiple Sites are Up
informed, even on the go.
-Original Message-
From: Dominic Watson [mailto:watson.domi...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 9:59 AM
To: cf-talk
Subject: Re: Determining if multiple Sites are Up/Down?
This can be fine. However, depending on your needs, you might want
Call me old school, but I just run Nagios + NagiosQL on one of my VPS's
to monitor my various machines. It's a real pain in the arse to setup,
to be sure, but it gets the job done.
To help with the setup, I have a VM locally that runs Groundworks
locally. After that's configured, I export
I'd like to set up my development environment to match what I've got on the
server, namely multiple sites under IIS with each site acting as root.
Can anyone offer any tips and what they do that works well? Is there an issue
or special consideration with ColdFusion Developer edition
ColdFusion is not going to be your problem, IIS is. If you're talking
about setting this up on a desktop OS, then IIS isn't going to let you
do it. I know in XP (and pretty sure about Vista), IIS can only have 1
website. You can only have multiple sites in IIS on a server OS
Indeed, if you're dev environment is not a server, and you're working on a
desktop/laptop look at this for creating multiple sites in IIS:
http://www.gafvert.info/iis/article/multiple_websites_xp.htm
Then, create a seperate domain for each site in your hosts file, resolving
it to 127.0.0.1 i.e
ColdFusion is not going to be your problem, IIS is. If you're talking
about setting this up on a desktop OS, then IIS isn't going to let you
do it. I know in XP (and pretty sure about Vista), IIS can only have 1
website. You can only have multiple sites in IIS on a server OS
IIS7 on Vista and Windows 7 allow multiple sites.
Greg
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Eric Cobb cft...@ecartech.com wrote:
ColdFusion is not going to be your problem, IIS is. If you're talking
about setting this up on a desktop OS, then IIS isn't going to let you
do it. I know in XP
setting this up on a desktop OS, then IIS isn't going to let you
do it. I know in XP (and pretty sure about Vista), IIS can only have 1
website. You can only have multiple sites in IIS on a server OS.
This is not true in Vista or Windows 7, in any version available in the US.
Dave Watts, CTO
Someone mentioned the 'hosts' file, too, which can be useful for spoofing
URLs in development.
c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
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Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know
on the
IIS7 on Vista and Windows 7 allow multiple sites.
Through host headers? Won't this be an issue with ColdFusion Dev edition?
~|
Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know
on the House
IIS7 on Vista and Windows 7 allow multiple sites.
Through host headers? Won't this be an issue with ColdFusion Dev edition?
No. It's working just fine for me, right this minute. The developer
edition just limits incoming connections to a handful of IP addresses.
No edition limits how many
Someone mentioned the 'hosts' file, too, which can be useful for spoofing
URLs in development.
c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
I'm on Windows 7 with IIS7 and I just tried this.
I created a new site in IIS with a host name of www.beta.test.com
I then added the new site in the hosts file
To: cf-talk
Subject: Re: IIS ColdFusion Developer, best practices for setting up
multiple sites
Someone mentioned the 'hosts' file, too, which can be useful for
spoofing
URLs in development.
c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
I'm on Windows 7 with IIS7 and I just tried this.
I created a new
Use iis_multilex addon for IIS. It works fine on WinXP.
---
Sergey Croitor
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Jeff F cftalk_l...@fongemie.com wrote:
I'd like to set up my development environment to match what I've got on the
server, namely multiple sites under IIS with each site acting
iis_multiplex is a correct name. I've typed it wrong in previous email.
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Jeff F cftalk_l...@fongemie.com wrote:
I'd like to set up my development environment to match what I've got on the
server, namely multiple sites under IIS with each site acting as root
forward:http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753195%28WS.10%29.aspx
Even if the site is defined in IIS and the Hosts file, how does CF know this is
a new site, and not just a dir on the default website?
multiple sites
Someone mentioned the 'hosts' file, too, which can
I'm on Windows 7 with IIS7 and I just tried this.
I created a new site in IIS with a host name of www.beta.test.com
I then added the new site in the hosts file as
127.0.0.1 www.beta.solo.com
When I browse to www.beta.solo.com I get server 500 error of the IsapiModule.
If I remember, this
My typing mistake. I did add www.beta.solo.com to IIS, not www.beta.test.com
as I wrote earlier.
That part is straight
forward:http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753195%28WS.10%29.aspx
With IIS 7, you'll have to enable IIS 6 compatibility, too. Google
IIS 7 coldfusion for more
Did you map CF to all IIS virtual servers using wsconfig? If not, did
you map CF to this virtual server?
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
http://training.figleaf.com/
I just did, I think and still no luck.
Using the Webserver Configuration tool, I add
Using the Webserver Configuration tool, I add www.beta.solo.com in the field
JRun Host, under IIS website I left it as All and
checked the Configure web server for Coldfusion 8 Applications. I restarted
Coldfusion and I get the same error.
That error does look familiar, as I've seen when
Subject: Re: IIS ColdFusion Developer, best practices for setting up
multiple sites
From: Dave Watts dwa...@figleaf.com
Date: Fri, January 08, 2010 10:31 am
To: cf-talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com
~|
Want to reach the ColdFusion
That is an XP only issue. IIS in Vista allows multiple sites. There was an
interview with the guy that was in charge of IIS development that said they
learned their lesson from crippling IIS in XP and wouldn't do it again
(apparently there was a lot of backlash from developers on this one
/windows/system32/drivers/etc/
Eric
-Original Message-
From: Dominic Watson [mailto:watson.domi...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 8:26 AM
To: cf-talk
Subject: Re: IIS ColdFusion Developer, best practices for setting up
multiple sites
Indeed, if you're dev environment
practices for setting up
multiple sites
IIS7 on Vista and Windows 7 allow multiple sites.
Through host headers? Won't this be an issue with ColdFusion Dev edition?
~|
Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something
[mailto:cftalk_l...@fongemie.com]
Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 9:42 AM
To: cf-talk
Subject: Re: IIS ColdFusion Developer, best practices for setting up
multiple sites
I believe that you also have to add www.beta.solo.com to IIS. If the
site is using host headers (exclusively) and gets one
Just a follow up.
I got it working using everything as I listed above, but when I was using the
web server configuration tool it wasn't working. Dave was correct, I needed
to go into the Application pool settings in IIS and Enable 32-bit applications
as the default setting. I reran the Web
I got it working using everything as I listed above, but when I was using the
web server configuration tool it wasn't working. Dave was correct, I needed
to go into the
Application pool settings in IIS and Enable 32-bit applications as the
default setting. I reran the Web Config
There are hacks and specialty software you can use to get
around this, but natively IIS isn't going to let you do it.
That is not the case with Windows 7 Pro and IIS 7.5 (I do not know about
previous versions). With IIS 7.5 running on Windows 7 Pro here on my laptop
I have a number of sites
i think this is more of a IIS issue than CF. yes you can use CGI to redirect
the user but why do it at this level.
if each domain is on the same server you can just setup one ColdFusion
datasource then each domain can access the same database and its content.
if you want to keep it secure
i also have to warn you having multiple domains with the same content
can class as duplicated content in Google. If Google decides the
websites are the same it WILL only index one of them or only one
domain will come up per search query i.e. sports. this rule will also
apply to sub
Dunno if mine is the best solution, but I've got about 10 sites pulling from
one db, I put a cfswitch statement from the cgi variable to handle getting
people to the correct pages; one if they type in website.com, one for
www.website.com. I have not had any problems with this method yet...
I'm just wondering what will happen with SSL. Never done it like that before.
Thanks,
Will
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To the best of my understanding you'll need a SSL cert for each domain/
ip address. If the sites were all sub-domains then there is a way to
do it with one SSL cert.
Wil Genovese
One man with courage makes a majority.
-Andrew Jackson
A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for
This is more of a general question. I'm trying to figure out the best way to go
about implementing something.
My client wants to expand our sports clothing website to more than one
sport/website.
So for example, www.xsports.com would house:
www.xsportsvolleyball.com
www.xsportsbaseball.com
What I did for RIAForge is simply sniff the CGI variable hostname
I believe. Maybe server_name. Either way, when you go to
x.riaforge.org, and it isn't www.riaforge.org, we treat it as a
project home page. I convert from x to a real project primary key
value, and from there it is a trivial
What I did for RIAForge is simply sniff the CGI variable hostname
I believe. Maybe server_name. Either way, when you go to
x.riaforge.org, and it isn't www.riaforge.org, we treat it as a
project home page. I convert from x to a real project primary key
value, and from there it is a
I'm new to coldfusion and have a few developed sites which I plan to host on a
dedicated server. In process of working out which version of CF I need. Wanted
to know if Standard edition can handle multiple sites and what the impact
performance wise would be? or anything else I should consider
.
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 7:17 AM, Sebastian Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm new to coldfusion and have a few developed sites which I plan to host on
a dedicated server. In process of working out which version of CF I need.
Wanted to know if Standard edition can handle multiple sites
Other than the throttles on SMS, and cfdocument etc, standard itself
won't provide any specific performance improvements. You may be
considering running enterprise and using multiple instances of
ColdFusion for each site. Other than being able to allocate more memory
to each instance, you won't
Subject: RE: multiple sites with cf 8 and iis
Where is etc/hosts? Thanks for the help.
-Original Message-
From: James Holmes
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 10:37 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: multiple sites with cf 8 and iis
Set up entries in etc/hosts so you don't need to swap anything
There is a tool called easyIIS that will enabel you to host multiple websites
on a Windows XP machine
Set up entries in etc/hosts so you don't need to swap anything - make
the IIS sites respond to the relevant host names.
On 8/21/07, Matthew Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just did a
There is a tool called EasIIS that will allow you to host multipe websites on
an XP box
Set up entries in etc/hosts so you don't need to swap anything - make
the IIS sites respond to the relevant host names.
On 8/21/07, Matthew Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just did a clean install of
: Monday, August 20, 2007 10:37 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: multiple sites with cf 8 and iis
Set up entries in etc/hosts so you don't need to swap anything - make
the IIS sites respond to the relevant host names.
On 8/21/07, Matthew Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just did a clean install of my
.
This will be for a handful of windows machines.
Cheers.
Adrian
-Original Message-
From: Matthew Smith
Sent: 21 August 2007 05:16
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: multiple sites with cf 8 and iis
Where is etc/hosts? Thanks for the help.
-Original Message-
From: James Holmes
Sent: Monday
And talking of the hosts file. Does anyone have any ideas about setting up
a hosts file like
system for a LAN without running a DNS
server?
I'd like a centralised way of defining IP/address mappings that's as simple
as the hosts file.
Any server that resolves name lookups would be,
, 2007 1:05 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: multiple sites with cf 8 and iis
Assuming you are on windows (a safe bet if you're using IIS) it's
typically in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.
On 8/21/07, Matthew Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Where is etc/hosts? Thanks for the help
unless you're using a server version of windows, IIS isn't going to
serve more than 1 site at a time.
BTW, entries in the hosts file would take on this form:
127.0.0.1localhost
127.0.0.1redhotkitties.com
Then, in IIS you'd set up multiple sites and have them use the host
header
I have modified my host file as follows:
--
127.0.0.1 localhost
www_redhotkitties_com localhost/www_redhotkitties_com
--
When I browse to http://www_redhotkitties_com/, I get
Internet
unless you're using a server version of windows, IIS isn't
going to serve more than 1 site at a time.
unless you're using Vista.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized
instruction at our training
cool! I had no idea that restriction was lifted for vista.
is there a top limit?
On 8/21/07, Dave Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
unless you're using a server version of windows, IIS isn't
going to serve more than 1 site at a time.
unless you're using Vista.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig
, August 21, 2007 12:16 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: multiple sites with cf 8 and iis
I have modified my host file as follows:
--
127.0.0.1 localhost
www_redhotkitties_com localhost/www_redhotkitties_com
is there a top limit?
Not to my knowledge. I haven't run into one yet.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized
instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta,
Chicago, Baltimore, Northern
Adrian Lynch wrote:
On my machine it's in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc.
And talking of the hosts file. Does anyone have any ideas about setting up a
hosts file like system for a LAN without running a DNS server?
Find somebody that has run servers for over 24 years and they will be
able
Matthew Smith wrote:
I have modified my host file as follows:
--
127.0.0.1 localhost
www_redhotkitties_com localhost/www_redhotkitties_com
That is not a valid record for a hostfile. A host file performs the
function of DNS, nothing more,
Is there a way to use the differing ip addresses(127.0.0.2) so that IIS
will use a different root directory?
-Original Message-
From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 12:57 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: multiple sites with cf 8 and iis
Matthew
, use Apache.
However, if you don't need to actually have multiple sites running
simultaneously, but can simply switch configuration to match the one you're
working on, you can simply configure IIS to point to a different physical
directory. You can do this with the default IIS management console
Do I need to uninstall IIS to run apache?
-Original Message-
From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 1:24 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: multiple sites with cf 8 and iis
What I'm trying to do is somehow be able to access different
sites locally. Right
Do I need to uninstall IIS to run apache?
No, but you will want to either configure each web server to listen on
different sockets, or turn IIS off when running Apache (and vice versa).
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber
: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 3:29 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: multiple sites with cf 8 and iis
Do I need to uninstall IIS to run apache?
No, but you will want to either configure each web server to listen on
different sockets, or turn IIS off when running Apache (and vice versa).
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf
What service do I disable to turn off IIS?
The World Wide Web Publishing service.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized
instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta,
Chicago, Baltimore,
Thank you for all the help.
-Original Message-
From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 4:25 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: multiple sites with cf 8 and iis
What service do I disable to turn off IIS?
The World Wide Web Publishing service.
Dave Watts, CTO
The examples above are instructing you to use host headers so that you
don't have to use different IPs. Are you running this in Windows XP or
a Windows server? If you can have multiple websites, they can all
listen to the same IP, so long as the host header (eg something.com,
something2.com,
Yes, I'm probably going to give Apache to try. (more questions to
follow, I'm sure) ;)
-Original Message-
From: Matthew Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 4:59 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: multiple sites with cf 8 and iis
The examples above are instructing
The easiest solution out of the box for me has been to install
EasyPHP2. It will deploy apache 2.2.3, MySQL 4.x, and phpMyAdmin. The
only thing left to do is configure apache-cf connector, and setup
virtual sites. You need to point the configuration directory option at
your httpd.conf file,
I just did a clean install of my development machine. In the past, I used
coldfusion's built in web server, but had a problem configuring it to use a
different folder for it's root.
This time around I think I'll give IIS a try. I have five sites I am
responsible for. I would like to be able
Set up entries in etc/hosts so you don't need to swap anything - make
the IIS sites respond to the relevant host names.
On 8/21/07, Matthew Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just did a clean install of my development machine. In the past, I used
coldfusion's built in web server, but had a
Where is etc/hosts? Thanks for the help.
-Original Message-
From: James Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 10:37 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: multiple sites with cf 8 and iis
Set up entries in etc/hosts so you don't need to swap anything - make
the IIS sites
Thanks. :) Not exactly what I hoping for, but it'll work for the basics
and I can expand on it later. Thank you. :)
Dave Anderson wrote:
I'm sure I'm overlooking something obvious..
If I want to run 2 different sites on 1 fusebox app.. How would I do that?
For example, let's say I own the
I'm sure I'm overlooking something obvious..
If I want to run 2 different sites on 1 fusebox app.. How would I do that?
For example, let's say I own the domain www.foo.com and www.bar.com. I'd
like to direct people to one directory which will figure out what the
URL is and then load the
and design work so far. Are there any production sites out
there running unity under high traffic?
Chris
-Original Message-
From: Joe Rinehart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 9:36 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: MG + Transfer for multiple sites from same code folder
!
Chris
-Original Message-
From: Joe Rinehart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 11:15 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: MG + Transfer for multiple sites from same code folder
Hey Chris,
Yep, there are a few sites running on the Unity core.
MG:U supports both Reactor
-
From: Peterson, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 1:25 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MG + Transfer for multiple sites from same code folder
Yea, after digging around and changing my point of view a few times, I
have MG:U manhandled into using the Transfer adapter. Right
I am writing my first site using MG and Transfer ORM.
I want to serve 2 sites with similar code bases and many shared
functions, but which pull from separate databases. In my
application.cfc file, I have a cfswitch on #lcase(trim(cgi.HTTP_HOST))#,
then I check www.sitename.com, or sitename.com,
Hey Chris,
If you're on the MG 2.0 code base (Unity), use two different
ColdSpring.xml files to configure the application for the context -
just edit index.cfm to switch which one to use based on host, etc.
-Joe
On May 10, 2007, at 8:44 AM, Peterson, Chris wrote:
I am writing my first
far. Are there any production sites out
there running unity under high traffic?
Chris
-Original Message-
From: Joe Rinehart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 9:36 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: MG + Transfer for multiple sites from same code folder
Hey Chris
Hi all,
Is there a way to define multiple websites on Windows XP IIS 5?
Obviously, on the server edition, one can right click in IIS config
and create a new website easily, but my dev box is running XP pro and
doesn't seem to have the functionality.
http://localhost/foo/ is fine, but I
Yes, you cannot create multiple sites in XP.
There are several tools to do this.. Search for tools such as IISAdmin.
HTH
-Original Message-
From: Tom King [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 05 December 2006 11:30
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Multiple Sites on IIS 5 on XP?
Hi all
awesome, that's done the job.
Ta muchly
T
On 5 Dec 2006, at 11:32, Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) wrote:
Yes, you cannot create multiple sites in XP.
There are several tools to do this.. Search for tools such as
IISAdmin.
HTH
-Original Message-
From: Tom King [mailto:[EMAIL
, 2005 11:12 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Multiple sites in IIS
Yes, use different host headers instead of ports.
Use a subdomain off your primary domain for your dev server,
Russ
-Original Message-
From: Peterson, Andrew S. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 15 November 2005 15:29
To: CF
, 2005 11:26 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: OT: Multiple sites in IIS - Modifying DNS
Hello,
I've created an additional site in IIS 6 on my development server with a
unique Host Header. So there are currently two sites on that server. Now
I've got my brilliant Network admin trying to that second site
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Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 11:26 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: OT: Multiple sites in IIS - Modifying DNS
Hello,
I've created an additional site in IIS 6 on my development server with a
unique Host Header. So there are currently two sites on that server. Now
I've got my brilliant Network
I'm doing a win2k3 server like this, with a dozen or so host-header'd
domains, right now. In MS DNS at least, you set up the host entry and
the * entry pointing to the shared IP.
Then in IIS6 you set up the host headers with fully qualified domain,
pointing to port 80. I like to use two host
Hire a Network admin that knows a port from a hole in the ground.
-Original Message-
From: Peterson, Andrew S. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 9:26 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: OT: Multiple sites in IIS - Modifying DNS
Hello,
I've created an additional site
I've created an additional site in IIS 6 on my development
server with a unique Host Header. So there are currently two
sites on that server. Now I've got my brilliant Network admin
trying to that second site to the DNS. Thus far, he has failed
miserably :-). He created a new primary
-Original Message-
From: Peterson, Andrew S. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 11:26 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: OT: Multiple sites in IIS - Modifying DNS
Hello,
The bottom line is that he blames me, and I blame him, and we're about
to take it outside
There's no need to create a new zone. Zones typically correspond to
domains or subdomains. Assuming that both sites on your server use the
same IP address, your network administrator only needs to create a CNAME
record pointing the new host name to the old one. If the sites use
different IP
: Friday, November 18, 2005 12:19 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Multiple sites in IIS - Modifying DNS
I've created an additional site in IIS 6 on my development
server with a unique Host Header. So there are currently two
sites on that server. Now I've got my brilliant Network admin
trying
CNAME records should only be used when aliasing a host that is not within
the same zone, otherwise, use A records.
-Justin Scott
-Original Message-
From: Mark A Kruger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 1:39 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Multiple sites in IIS
CNAME records should only be used when aliasing a host that
is not within the same zone, otherwise, use A records.
I'm not a DNS expert, but my understanding is that this is simply incorrect.
There's nothing wrong with using CNAME records to alias hosts within a zone.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig
CNAME records should only be used when aliasing a host
that is not within the same zone, otherwise, use A
records.
I'm not a DNS expert, but my understanding is that this
is simply incorrect. There's nothing wrong with using
CNAME records to alias hosts within a zone.
You CAN alias
The CNAME record is used less than the A record because
it causes more traffic - more lookups. You can have multiple
A records for the same IP. Personally, I think it's easier
to manage just A records.
The performance difference is pretty inconsequential, especially if both
CNAME and A
-Original Message-
From: Justin D. Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 1:46 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Multiple sites in IIS - Modifying DNS
CNAME records should only be used when aliasing a host that
is not within
the same zone, otherwise, use
I don't agree with this because CNAME records pointed
to A records make it easier to change IP addresses
for said A records. One scenario would be 10 A records
For people manually managing zone files, I suppose this could make life
easier. I run my own DNS hosting service that uses variables
You CAN alias records within the same zone, but it's
generally not a good idea because of the extra DNS
lookups required to resolve them. Just because you
can do a think, does not mean you should.
Again, though, this is what CNAME records are for. The extra DNS lookups do
not cause a
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