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Martin Hope
Enrique G.
Asked: 2011-04-29 13:50:21 +0800 CST
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I'm really lost and my native language is not English so It's difficult to understand some of the complicated Apache Doc pages.

I've set up a Apache 2 webserver on an old Macintosh (Mac OS X 10.4.11, but also on a GNU/Linux box with same config files, but of course not at the same time ;) ).

The DocumentRoot is /Users/enrique/Sites, I know it's not the best but it works and I don't have permissions error when I mount the shared folder on other computers in my LAN.

I set up a free domain at co.cc let's say it is mysuperdomain.co.cc

I've also set up a ZoneEdit DNS account. I made a new zone called "mysuperdomain.co.cc" and then using an app called DNSUpdate with my Zoneedit data to update my dynamic IP (it usually changes twice a month with my ISP). It works fine and I can use ssh, VNC, FTP and of course my apache webserver from anywhere. I tried to VNC the Mac from a computer shop in Germany (I live in Spain) and I was great... and It saved me as I could recover some documents...

I usually ssh my server and edit the config file from there, or I use webmin if I'm in a Windows box and I don't have a SSH client.

Well, this is the problem: I had configured a virtualhost by hand first, and then again with webmin (maybe I was missing something) with the address doc.mysuperdomain.co.cc and DocumentRoot /Users/enrique/Sites/data/doc because I want to take it apart from my other folders.

Well, If I type doc.mysuperdomain.co.cc on my browser it takes me to the default Index page.

Why doesn't it take me to the right folder?

I don't know what to do. I think buying a "full" domain is now a bit expensive (and that doc folder is for educational purposes). With a, say, .net or .com personal domain will I be able to use subdomains with my free zoneedit account?

If someone can save me I'll be the happiest man on Earth...

Update:

I say I'm lost. This is what I have in my httpd.conf

NameVirtualHost mysuperdomain.co.cc:80

<VirtualHost doc.mysuperdomain.co.cc:80>
DocumentRoot /Users/enrique/Sites/doc
ServerName mysuperdomain.co.cc
</VirtualHost>

I'm not using an external httpd-vhosts.conf, shall I use it?

I had tried putting another Vhost with the main domain (mysuperdomain.co.cc) pointing at the documentroot (Users/enrique/Sites), with no luck.

I think it's something I typed wrong (Apache doc is quite difficult to understand, and some pages are not updated in the spanish version...)... but maybe using a free co.cc domain is the problem. I'll cross my fingers and wait that is a configuration error.

domain-name-system apache-2.2 zoneedit
Martin Hope
morgan freeman
Asked: 2011-02-25 02:13:15 +0800 CST
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I am trying to configure my computer to run its own DNS server. The only thing I want to do is to forward all requests for my.example.com to my-staging.example.com. So, when I would use a phone, who's DNS is my computer, the requests would also be redirected.

I can't seem to figure out what exactly should the zone file contain, could anyone please help ?

I tried:

example.com. 7200   IN SOA ns1.example.com. ( 
                         2008010402 
                         15 
                         3600 
                         3000000 
                         86400 )
                    IN NS example.com
my.example.com.     IN A   213.144.138.203

but does not seem to work.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

domain-name-system redirect forwarding zones zoneedit
Martin Hope
Roalt
Asked: 2010-12-30 01:26:19 +0800 CST
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How can you redirect your smtp traffic to another port than 25? My ISP blocks incoming traffic to port 25.

I've been using ZoneEdit.com for this purpose for years (incoming mail traffic goes to another port and I redirect it via my firewall internally to port 25), but with the new system I cannot do it anymore.

I'm not sure if I can do this by configuring MX and A records in the right way or if I need a SMTP redirecting service (such as rollernet.us)?

I'm not an expert in Zone records but generally I know my way around for website traffic.

domain-name-system smtp domain-name zoneedit
Martin Hope
chilly-child
Asked: 2010-05-04 01:44:25 +0800 CST
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This is our scenario:

  • Our DNS is hosted by a company. They don't manage the DNS.
  • We use Zoneedit (www.zoneedit.com) to manage the DNS such as nameservers, CNAMEs, etc...
  • Then we have our web host where we just have our files hosted.

We have a subdomain created on zoneedit. We would like to do a URL rewrite so that subdomain.ourdomain.com is displayed as www.ourdomain.com/subdomain.

Do I use Zoneedit to do the URL rewrite or the web host or the DNS host?

I checked the Zoneedit docs but I could not find a way to do a URL rewrite. Need some advice.

Thanks

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