Thanks Bruno.

I'm so sorry for restating it again my situation before trying it; the situation like this:

Right now, when you go to http://mycompany.com it goes to nowhere since it doesn't resolve to any IP address.

I'm thinking, we can do it in the DNS that when someone trying to access http://mycompany.com it should resolve to www host.

Thanks.

S.Tux

On 2/20/06, Bruno S. Delbono Bruno.S.Delbono@mail.ac wrote:

str tux wrote:

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Hello People,

In my DNS setting I added A record of www for our company website.

It works, when you go to http://www.mycompany.com; it resolves and it shows the website content.

But in addition, I want also some kind of redirection or mapping (i don't know what you called that) that when people go to http://mycompany.com (without www), it should forward also to the www server.

How to do it? Thanks in advance.

If you are using apache as the webserver, you can create a redirect to it:

Here is an apache2 mod_rewrite example:

# For sites running on a port other than 80 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^fully.qualified.domain.name [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$ RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^80$ RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://fully.qualified.domain.name:%%7BSERVER_PORT%7D/$1 [L,R]

# And for a site running on port 80 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^fully.qualified.domain.name [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$ RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://fully.qualified.domain.name/$1 [L,R]

More Info:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html

If you are running any other webserver...check it's docs.

Warm Regards,

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Thanks Bruno. It works.

S.Tux

On 2/20/06, Bruno S. Delbono Bruno.S.Delbono@mail.ac wrote:

str tux wrote:

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I'm thinking, we can do it in the DNS that when someone trying to access http://mycompany.com it should resolve to www host.

You mean a CNAME?

mycompany.com. IN CNAME www.mycompany.com.

or

@ IN CNAME www.

-- Bruno Delbono Open-Systems Group http://www.open-systems.org/users/bruno/ _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

On Sun, 19 Feb 2006, Bruno S. Delbono wrote:

str tux wrote:

...

Hello People,

In my DNS setting I added A record of www for our company website.

It works, when you go to http://www.mycompany.com; it resolves and it shows the website content.

But in addition, I want also some kind of redirection or mapping (i don't know what you called that) that when people go to http://mycompany.com (without www), it should forward also to the www server.

How to do it? Thanks in advance.

If you are using apache as the webserver, you can create a redirect to it:

Here is an apache2 mod_rewrite example:

# For sites running on a port other than 80 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^fully.qualified.domain.name [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$ RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^80$ RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://fully.qualified.domain.name:%%7BSERVER_PORT%7D/$1 [L,R]

# And for a site running on port 80 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^fully.qualified.domain.name [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$ RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://fully.qualified.domain.name/$1 [L,R]

More Info:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html

If you are running any other webserver...check it's docs.

It's probably better for your webserver to simply do:

<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName dag.wieers.be ServerAlias www.dag.wieers.com www.dag.wieers.be Redirect Permanent / http://dag.wieers.com/ </VirtualHost>

Since the Redirect is restricted to the VirtualHost and there are no expensive regular expressions involved.

Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]