Flint Heart on Wed, 3 May 2000 12:38:53 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [PLUG] DNS & Apache wildcards


I've had lots of fun running my domains.  Plus its been a real learning
experience.  nothing is like the real experience.  hackers breaking into
your box. and all that other fun stuff realy gets you on your toes. :>
I realy wish i could drop by tonight.  It's been so long.  

	Laters 
		N-tropy


On Wed, 3 May 2000, Darxus wrote:

> 
> I had expected that when I posted on this subject, it would be a question.
> But I've managed to find the answers, from N-tropy (thanks).
> 
> They actually turned out to be exactly what I would have expected, if I'd
> just tried it.
> 
> 
> DNS:
> 
> In the zone file for chaosreigns.com, I have a line:
> 
> *               IN      CNAME   @	; *.chaosreigns.com
> 
> after all my A records.  So if you try to resolve anything that's
> specifically defined, it will resolve correctly.  Then if you do a
> nslookup on anything that doesn't exist, say, aosdpro.chaosreigns.com,
> it'll resolve it to the same IP address as chaosreigns.com.
> 
> 
> Apache:
> 
> Then in the httpd.conf on that machine, the entry looks like:
> 
> <VirtualHost 209.71.111.42>
> ServerName www.chaosreigns.com
> ServerAlias chaosreigns.com *.chaosreigns.com
> DocumentRoot /home/darxus/public_html
> ErrorLog /var/log/apache/www.chaosreigns.com-error.log
> TransferLog /var/log/apache/www.chaosreigns.com-access.log
> </VirtualHost>
> 
> So I learned 2 things here... you can define 2 hostnames on 1 SeverAlias
> line ("chaosreigns.com" & "*.chaosreigns.com"), instead of having to
> create multiple entire VirtualHost entries, and.. you can do wildcards.
> 
> So if you type in anyvalidstring.chaosreigns.com into your web browser,
> it'll load my stuff.
> 
> __________________________________________
> darxus@op.net / http://www.ChaosReigns.com
> 
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