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Jamesy

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Sep 2, 2003, 4:41:11 AM9/2/03
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Hi,
I have a client whose previous design company have left him in the lurch.

He has his own server running from his own premises. There is one main
domain which is directly pointed to ip of the server using the A mapping you
can do on an domain.

However, on his server there is one sub-folder, and I need to point a domain
to that. I realise I could do a web-fowarding to that, but I would prefer
to point properly using the A name feature within the domain name control
panel.

This is a bit above my head at present... Can anyone advise me on how to do
this...??

James


Joseph Szobody

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Sep 2, 2003, 10:19:36 AM9/2/03
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James,

He needs to setup virtual servers on his own server. Is he using Apache or
IIS?

Joseph

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Jamesy

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Sep 2, 2003, 10:48:53 AM9/2/03
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He is using IIS, and I'm pretty sure the virtual server thing is set-up on
the server..

See up until a week ago the domain was working, it was pointed to his old
companies name servers and from there to the folder (virtual server) on the
server.
Now my client himself has the domain from the company, he has been left in
the lurch so to speak and needs to get this domain back to what it was.

His relationship with the old company is not good therefore he would rather
not have to contact them regarding this matter.

If, as I suspect the virtual server for the folder is already set-up how
would I point this domain correctly to that?


James


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Joseph Szobody

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Sep 2, 2003, 4:23:53 PM9/2/03
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James,

You just point the domain name to the server IP address with an A mapping.
Then you need to configure IIS so that when a request is received for
domainX.com, it serves up pages from folderX, and domainY from folderY, etc.

Not sure off the top of my head how to do this in IIS, I'm an Apache guy.
But I think it's pretty easy.

Joseph


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Jamesy

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Sep 2, 2003, 5:05:39 PM9/2/03
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aaah right.... so in theory if this is already in place on the IIS, then I
should jst have to point it to that IP and it should work straight away?

I'll give it a try.

Cheers

James

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gRoberts

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Sep 3, 2003, 5:51:15 AM9/3/03
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James,

I use IIS all the time, basically what you will need to do is, if you already have the site stored on a local computer with the IIS running, all you would need to do is type:

http://ip.address/virtualdomain/

if you have set up the files properly ( what iis accepts as a index page. ) it should work fine. This should also work the same when you are using another server, if you know his IP address and the virtual folder name then you can just log into the control panel of your new domain, and change the server address's to that address.

Hope this helps

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