On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 03:36:07AM -0400, sberaud wrote: > I think, > > At least I now have NamedVirtualHosts in Apache working correctly. I > needed the server alias directive to be set for each new virtual domain > - don't I feel silly. Assuming you mean the ServerAlias directive... yeah, it's important that you cover every single name that users might use to contact your virtual host. Typically that means "www.domain.com" and "domain.com". Just using "domain.com" isn't enough to cover "www.domain.com". (Some purists insist on users using the "www." prefix as was originally intended, but corporate presence on the Internet decided that "www." was optional, and now pretty much the entire Internet caters to that technical incorrectness.) To avoid the confusion of getting the wrong host, I set up my servers so that using the IP (or the hostname, e.g. "hostname.mydomain.com") gets you a "default" site (/var/www/default). This is like the host's "personal" webspace, where we can put miscellaneous things for people to download, server status pages, etc. Accessing just plain "http://hostname.mydomain.com"; is an index of these things from inside my network, or a 403 "forbidden" error from outside. This means it's abundantly clear if a domain is set up incorrectly -- I get a directory index rather than getting another "real" virtual site. Then I set up virtual hosts for "www.mydomain.com" / "mydomain.com", "www.hosteddomain.com" / "hosteddomain.com", etc. > I also had my cname records like this: > > www.mahshidfdimarco.com. IN CNAME www.myservername.net. > > but I suspect this is wrong and changed it to: > > www.mahshidfdimarco.com. IN CNAME mahshidfdimarco.com. Well, neither is technically wrong, though of course the former relies on "www.myservername.net" resolving. Me, I typically do hostname IN A 1.2.3.4 @ IN A 1.2.3.4 www IN CNAME hostname Note that I've left off the domains. When you're defining a zone, unless a name ends with a "." (meaning it's an absolute domain name), BIND assumes that you're talking about a host in the zone you're defining. So "hostname" means "hostname.mydomain.com", and "@" means "mydomain.com". (Note that "@" cannot be a CNAME.) In this way, you can actually use the same zonefile for multiple domains. This is what we do for our "generic" domains that all go to the same web and mailserver.
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