Re: NameVirtualHost and dynamic subdomains on apache.

2008-04-02 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please don't top post, and please trim your quotes] On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 01:05:14PM -0400, Michael Habashy wrote: > Steve - I am still testing, but I believe my issue was around disabling the > 000-default config that comes with apache and debain. > > Once i disabled it, I was good to go..it

Re: NameVirtualHost and dynamic subdomains on apache.

2008-04-01 Thread Michael Habashy
Steve - I am still testing, but I believe my issue was around disabling the 000-default config that comes with apache and debain. Once i disabled it, I was good to go..it does work. Now i will start reading the dns link that you sent me. Just a coouple of quick questions: 1. I can do the same wild

Re: NameVirtualHost and dynamic subdomains on apache.

2008-04-01 Thread Michael Habashy
Hi Steve ---I see you monitor this too :) I will read that article ..thanks.But i just moved over to a newly built server and got the following error: machine:/etc/apache2/conf.d# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart Forcing reload of web server (apache2)...[Tue Apr 01 12:38:02 2008] [warn] NameVirtua

Re: NameVirtualHost and dynamic subdomains on apache.

2008-04-01 Thread Steve Kemp
On Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 17:07:16 +0100, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: > > ServerAlias *.XXX.com > Using a *.XXX.com won't work. You need to define a virtual host for > each and every website on your server including all sub-domains and > then place the files in the appropriate director

Re: NameVirtualHost and dynamic subdomains on apache.

2008-04-01 Thread Michael Habashy
thanks for the quick reply. I have to have a soft link like ln -s /var/www/html/websites/XXX.com rid.XXX.com Is this the only way ? I have seen many sites out there that make the subdomain a keyword in order to get higher in Search engine rankings. Can someone else back this up Steve on

Re: NameVirtualHost and dynamic subdomains on apache.

2008-04-01 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 11:58:24 -0400 "Michael Habashy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i had created this file called www.XXX.com and placed it into the > /etc/apache2/sites-available directory. > > ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ServerName XXX.com > ServerAlias *.XXX.com > >