DNS entries, webserver, and forwarding requests
Colin J. White
cjwhite77 at netscape.net
Tue Feb 24 00:59:18 UTC 2004
I'm not sure what the possible solutions are for the following
problem, bear with me as I may not be using the correct terminology.
I have a website with a dns entry as www.foo.com. The site has many
different areas, e.g. www.foo.com/bar/ and www.foo.com/bar/ed/. A
portion of the site (www.foo.com/bar/ed/) has requested that all
requests going to ed.foo.com and www.ed.foo.com (actually any
*ed.foo.com) is redirected to www.foo.com/bar/ed/. What are possible
solutions to this request? I am not to familiar with what is possible
with dns. Read on for clarification.
I have setup 2 virtual servers with my webserver, one to handle
ed.foo.com and one to handle www.ed.foo.com. For both I have set
their docs directory to docs/bar/ed/. Then a dns entry was added for
both virtual servers to point to the same IP as www.foo.com. The
webserver handles the requests, but . . . this does not seem like a
great solution. Anyone else that requests similar treatment means I
need to setup 2 virtual servers (one for a www url request and one for
a non-www url request) to fill the request. What are the possible
solutions for this? What is the exact name of what I am attempting to
accomplish, i.e. url forwarding?
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