subdomain "forwarding" for a vhost

"shimmyshack" <matt.farey.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Jun 8, 7:19 pm, "Paul" <l....RemoveThis@invalid.com> wrote:
>> I have a vhost in the conf file for, say, mydomain.com. I want to have a
>> subdomain called abc.mydomain.com to automatically go to URL, say,
>> abc.anotherdomain.com.
>>
>> How would I do that?
>
> create a new vhost for abc.mydomain.com
> inside the vhost put
> <IfModule mod_alias>
> RedirectPermanent / http://abc.anotherdomain.com/
> #or
> # RedirectMatch 301 (.*) http://abc.anotherdomain.com$1
> #where 301 sends a permananent redirect, rather than a moved
> temporarily [302] status
> </IfModule>

There's nothing for abs to point to so does the vhost for abc.mydomain.com
need a serveralias and doc root, like:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName abc.mydomain.com
ServerAlias abc.mydomain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/NOWHERE
<IfModule mod_alias>
RedirectPermanent / http://abc.anotherdomain.com/
temporarily [302] status
</IfModule>
</VirtualHost>
 >> Stay informed about: subdomain "forwarding" for a vhost 

I created a new vhost below:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName abc.mydomain.com
<IfModule mod_alias>
RedirectPermanent / http://abc.anotherdomain.com/
temporarily [302] status
</IfModule>
</VirtualHost>

went to command prompt and :
> apachectl restart

Tried to open the web page, abc.mydomain.com, and it said "Server not found"
and mod_alias is there.

Any ideas?
 >> Stay informed about: subdomain "forwarding" for a vhost 

"Paul" <lof RemoveThis @invalid.com> wrote in news:7Dhai.22466$dy1.16854@bigfe9:

> I created a new vhost below:
>
> <VirtualHost *:80>
> ServerName abc.mydomain.com
> <IfModule mod_alias>
> RedirectPermanent / http://abc.anotherdomain.com/
> temporarily [302] status
> </IfModule>
> </VirtualHost>
>
> went to command prompt and :
>> apachectl restart
>
> Tried to open the web page, abc.mydomain.com, and it said "Server not
> found" and mod_alias is there.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
>

Yeah...do you have a DNS for abc.mydomain.com?




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 >> Stay informed about: subdomain "forwarding" for a vhost 

"Mark" <mtaylor*@*lrim.com> wrote in message
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> "Paul" <lof.DeleteThis@invalid.com> wrote in news:7Dhai.22466$dy1.16854@bigfe9:
>
>> I created a new vhost below:
>>
>> <VirtualHost *:80>
>> ServerName abc.mydomain.com
>> <IfModule mod_alias>
>> RedirectPermanent / http://abc.anotherdomain.com/
>> temporarily [302] status
>> </IfModule>
>> </VirtualHost>
>>
>> went to command prompt and :
>>> apachectl restart
>>
>> Tried to open the web page, abc.mydomain.com, and it said "Server not
>> found" and mod_alias is there.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>>
>>
>
> Yeah...do you have a DNS for abc.mydomain.com?

No, my host only allows DNS sub.domain.tld entries for my main account which
is not one of the ones listed.
 >> Stay informed about: subdomain "forwarding" for a vhost 

"Paul" <lof DeleteThis @invalid.com> wrote in news:Nvjai.22470$dy1.9104@bigfe9:

> "Mark" <mtaylor*@*lrim.com> wrote in message
> news:1181335286_44995@sp6iad.superfeed.net...
>> "Paul" <lof DeleteThis @invalid.com> wrote in news:7Dhai.22466$dy1.16854@bigfe9:
>>
>>> I created a new vhost below:
>>>
>>> <VirtualHost *:80>
>>> ServerName abc.mydomain.com
>>> <IfModule mod_alias>
>>> RedirectPermanent / http://abc.anotherdomain.com/
>>> temporarily [302] status
>>> </IfModule>
>>> </VirtualHost>
>>>
>>> went to command prompt and :
>>>> apachectl restart
>>>
>>> Tried to open the web page, abc.mydomain.com, and it said "Server
>>> not found" and mod_alias is there.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Yeah...do you have a DNS for abc.mydomain.com?
>
> No, my host only allows DNS sub.domain.tld entries for my main account
> which is not one of the ones listed.
>
>
>

Then you can test it by putting an entry into your client machine's hosts
file, as...

[ip_address] abc.mydomain.com


But, don't expect the rest of the world to see it until you can supply a
DNS entry to abc.mydomain.com




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 >> Stay informed about: subdomain "forwarding" for a vhost 

On Jun 8, 7:56 pm, "Paul" <l....RemoveThis@invalid.com> wrote:
> I created a new vhost below:
>
> <VirtualHost *:80>
> ServerName abc.mydomain.com
> <IfModule mod_alias>
> RedirectPermanent /http://abc.anotherdomain.com/
> temporarily [302] status
> </IfModule>
> </VirtualHost>
>
> went to command prompt and :
>
> > apachectl restart
>
> Tried to open the web page, abc.mydomain.com, and it said "Server not found"
> and mod_alias is there.
>
> Any ideas?

temporarily [302] status
should have been commented - it was part of the explanation line but
got wrapped

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName abc.mydomain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/NOWHERE
<IfModule mod_alias>
RedirectPermanent / http://abc.anotherdomain.com/
</IfModule>
</VirtualHost>

you need a DNS entry poiting to that server - so the public can see it
or for just you to test it, you can have a hosts entry pointing
abc.mydomain.com to the server

As you host only allows DNS for sub.domain.tld (which is not one of
the ones listed) it seems to me that any rules you place in the
vhost.conf will only mean anything for clients whose hosts entries you
control. (or if you use a dynamic dns to point to the server IP - I
might be wrong I havent thought that out)
The hosting company might allow you to modify the vhost.conf but the
server will need to be restarted, if they are any good, (at least I
would think this a precaution) thy would parse through your vhost file
and remove anything that doesn't fit with their policies. (if they
machine is shared, you could add rules for domains thate exist on
others accounts, how would the behaviour be predictable in this case)

Sorry if I have repeated anything Mark said.
 >> Stay informed about: subdomain "forwarding" for a vhost 

"shimmyshack" <matt.farey DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Jun 8, 7:56 pm, "Paul" <l... DeleteThis @invalid.com> wrote:
>> I created a new vhost below:
>>
>> <VirtualHost *:80>
>> ServerName abc.mydomain.com
>> <IfModule mod_alias>
>> RedirectPermanent /http://abc.anotherdomain.com/
>> temporarily [302] status
>> </IfModule>
>> </VirtualHost>
>>
>> went to command prompt and :
>>
>> > apachectl restart
>>
>> Tried to open the web page, abc.mydomain.com, and it said "Server not
>> found"
>> and mod_alias is there.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> temporarily [302] status
> should have been commented - it was part of the explanation line but
> got wrapped
>
> <VirtualHost *:80>
> ServerName abc.mydomain.com
> DocumentRoot /var/www/NOWHERE
> <IfModule mod_alias>
> RedirectPermanent / http://abc.anotherdomain.com/
> </IfModule>
> </VirtualHost>
>
> you need a DNS entry poiting to that server - so the public can see it
> or for just you to test it, you can have a hosts entry pointing
> abc.mydomain.com to the server
>
> As you host only allows DNS for sub.domain.tld (which is not one of
> the ones listed) it seems to me that any rules you place in the
> vhost.conf will only mean anything for clients whose hosts entries you
> control. (or if you use a dynamic dns to point to the server IP - I
> might be wrong I havent thought that out)
> The hosting company might allow you to modify the vhost.conf but the
> server will need to be restarted, if they are any good, (at least I
> would think this a precaution) thy would parse through your vhost file
> and remove anything that doesn't fit with their policies. (if they
> machine is shared, you could add rules for domains thate exist on
> others accounts, how would the behaviour be predictable in this case)
>
> Sorry if I have repeated anything Mark said.
>

great info - I'll give it a try.
 >> Stay informed about: subdomain "forwarding" for a vhost