[ale] OT- sorta - DNS

[Jim Popovitch]

This is possible only if you are only looking to do this for a domain which you
have control over the webserver.   It's quite simple to do in Apache with dual
VirtualHost settings where one is a ServerAlias that redirects to the second
VirtualHost.  For instance, you can have http://blah.com seemlessly redirect to
http://www.blah.com.  Here are the essential Apache settings that do this:

<VirtualHost www.blah.com:80>
    ServerName www.blah.com
    DocumentRoot /www/
    .....
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost www.blah.com:80>
    ServerAlias blah.*  # catches blah.net and blah.com
    Redirect permanent / http://www.blah.com/
</VirtualHost>

Make sense?

-Jim P.

--- fgz <fzamenski at voyager.net> wrote:

> 
> The boss calleth on me today, with a 'simple request'. This is for a
> small business site: what I want to achieve is to have any end-user
> simply enter a valid domainname into their browser, then have that name
> redirect to a business website, i.e. they'll enter smallbiz.com, and
> they go off to www.smallbiz.com. Obviously many big sites do this: for
> instance, yahoo.com will redirect to www.yahoo.com. An nslookup on
> yahoo.com will give the IP/names of several servers - or maybe cluster
> redirectors, or a bunch of load balancing devices, perhaps? Anyway,
> simply doing a cname to a webserver doesn't work (didn't think it would,
> but I tried anyway. ;) Is there a simple way to do this? Any good
> concise, favored, resources on the web that address this? Our external
> DNS server is an ancient Solaris 2.6 box, with a really nasty old
> version of bind. In-house webservers are iPlanet ws6sp5 on Solaris 9.
> 
> Thanks.
> -fgz
> 
> 
> 
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