Paul Sack wrote:
> You'll have to define what you want a bit better. First, define request in
> this context. Provide some examples if you aren't sure how to phrase your
> query.
>
> Do you want www.hosta.net's ip to point to www.hostb.net?
>
> or do you want http://www.hosta.net/foo to forward to
> http://www.hostb.net/foo ?
>
> Both can be done.
>
Ok, cool, I'll try to explain myself a little more clearly here :)
I want a request for www.mydomainname.com to go to the ip of host-a and forward
to www.host-b.net/~foo
Sooo, someone types in my domain name. At register.com, I have entered the ip
of my server, host-a. So host-a gets the request, and (in theory :)
automagically forwards it to the index page residing at www.host-b.edu/~foo
So essentially, it's going from ip to ip/~foo.
Hope this helps somewhat...
>
> I *wish* I had an old pentium 133 ;)
>
lol! I was bowled over when I found out it didn't take gobs of computing power
to run a non-MS operating system :) :) :)
>
> Solaris/Mandrake/RedHat/Debian/AIX: All of these can do what you want.
> What is maybe more important is what other people on the list use, since
> you will be asking us for help in the future (most likely). Or if you have
> friends who know UNIX well (use what they use).
>
> Anyways, I know RedHat quite well. A lot of people on the list use Debian
> and they can help you with that.
>
> Most questions apply to Linux and not a specific distribution.
> Many others apply to Unix and not a specific o/s.
> (except for distribution installation issues.)
>
> If, perhaps, my roommate wanted to install Linux, I would recommend
> Mandrake, since I can support that quite well.
>
> IOW, choose Mandrake, Redhat, or Debian. All are well-supported here.
>
> Paul Sack
Ok, cool. I suppose my greatest concern now is which one out of the 3 you
listed works best with whatever program runs the ip forwarding (apache?). Does
apache come with either of these by chance? Or is it something that must be
downloaded later? I don't need the server os to look pretty, however that
would be a plus. IOW, I want to install the os, install the forwarding
proggie, and be done with it. Then I can tinker around with other stuff later
:)
I sure appreciate the help!
Thanks,
Andrew
www.utobb.com
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