you should go check out zoneedit.com
also, i wrote a very cursory tutorial on this stuff (i just went through it
myself). http://jason.pepas.com/linux/tutorials/apache.php
jason
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From: "Andrew A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Paul Sack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 8:44 PM
Subject: Re: Beginner questions: vhosting and more
>
>
> 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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