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Re: [PLUG] DNS & Apache wildcards
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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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