Is it possible to set a ddns hostname to access a name-based virtual host?

[hongyi.zhao at gmail.com]

On Friday, February 20, 2009 at 22:15, serge.fonville at gmail.com wrote:
> Let me give an example to illustrate my problem:

> In the following url, the prola.aps.org is a name-based  virtual host:

> http://prola.aps.org/pdf/PRB/v1/i1/p1_1

> On  the other hand, my institute has subscribed to prola and many other
> journals, so I want to use some self-made and easy-to-memory hostnames for
> each  of them.  For example, I want to use the following url to access
> the above one:

> http://myprola.myddns.org/pdf/PRB/v1/i1/p1_1

> Is this possible?

> You can specify a domainalias for every virtualhost in the apache
> configuration (other http servers should support similar functionality)

I cann't figure it out.  I only have a web
client  such  as  ie  or firefox to access the above url?  Do you mean
that I must setup a local webserver, say by using apache to do that thing?

Regards,
-- 
Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao at gmail.com> 
Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry
Chinese Academy of Sciences 
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2009-2-20