Craig White wrote: > 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. Its actually very useful to access backend hosts on private networks or to transparently spread the load across several machines. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com