Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am new to domain name servers, so I may ask stupid questions, but I hope >someone can help me. I have just set up a nameserver which works fine. >Now I want to forward my www to my internet provider, but there is a >slight problem. My page does not have an ip, but is in fact a directory on >the server of my provider. This is my situation: > >/etc/bind/db.dorpsnet contains the lines: >local A 192.168.1.254 >www A 194.235.126.184 > >so when I acces www.dorpsnet.nl (local name) I succesfully reach the >provider's home page. But unfortunately, my homepage is at >194.235.126.184/~sebas > >Can you give me a hint or some tips how to manage this? Can this be done >with DNS, or do I have to install another package?
You can't do this with DNS alone; your provider needs to run a virtual host for you. Whenever any HTTP/1.1 client (or HTTP/1.0 client with Netscape extensions, the two of which combined form the vast majority of even vaguely recent browsers) sends a request for one of your pages, it sends the HTTP header "Host: www.dorpsnet.nl". Your provider's web server then needs to recognize that and send them back pages from the directory ~sebas. This should be trivial for a provider who knows anything at all about web hosting. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
