On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 01:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Craig White wrote on Mon, 05 May 2008 14:57:05 -0700: > > > <VirtualHost www.tobyhouse.com:*> > > this is very old-fashioned and unreliable syntax, use this instead: > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/name-based.html ---- that's what I ended up doing...you took the first message in the thread ---- > > > RedirectPermanent / http://cms.tobyhouse.com > > > It sent ALL traffic over to the other server which is clearly not what I > > want. > > I don't understand. Isn't that exactly what you want, redirect all traffic > for www.tobyhouse.com to cms.tobyhouse.com? > > > How can handle this? Must I give a unique ip address to > > www.tobyhouse.com? > > Ah, you have several virtual hosts on it and all of them get redirected to > cms.tobyhouse.com? That's the result of the wrong virtual host syntax you > use. Use name-based virtual hosts and it will work. > > Why don't you solve this at dns level? Wouldn't that be much "cleaner"? ---- sure - but I needed a way to do this temporarily to demonstrate to bosses who don't always understand these technical issues and to figure out if and how I handle things at the DNS level. Craig