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 Jun 7 2006, 12:26 AM
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NiGHTFoX - Hiding in the dark  Group: Members Posts: 680 Joined: 3-April 05 Member No.: 3,584  |
Ok, for testing my knowledge, I got a free domain "floppydrives.cjb.net" and free DNS service at ZoneEdit.com. However, when you visit "floppydrives.cjb.net" you're taken to the document root of "/var/www/html" instead of where I'd like it to go: "/home/user/public_html"
I think this is more of a web issue/server issue, so I apologize if you feel that this is in the wrong forum. If it is, could a mod move it to where they feel it should go? Thanks! [N]F |
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Jun 7 2006, 07:49 AM
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PsYcheDeLiC dR3aMeR  Group: Admin Posts: 2,242 Joined: 29-January 05 From: Nakorn Chaisri, Thailand Member No.: 2,411 |
This is your home server right ?? And the only page you're hosting is your own??
A simple tweak would be to place a blank index file in your /var/www/html with a single line of JavaScript Redirection code pointing to the index file in your /home/nigthfox  This is the quick and dirty way out.. I understand what you want - but it's gotta do something with your local DNS too.. that's what redirects requests to specific accounts on the same server. Let me ask around and if I get a satisfactory reply from any of my associates, I'll post back rightaway. |
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Jun 7 2006, 11:59 AM
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NiGHTFoX - Hiding in the dark Group: Members Posts: 680 Joined: 3-April 05 Member No.: 3,584 |
QUOTE(miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG @ Jun 7 2006, 03:49 AM)  This is your home server right ?? And the only page you're hosting is your own?? Yep! Hey, since it is MY server, I can use all the disk space and bandwidth in the world!! QUOTE A simple tweak would be to place a blank index file in your /var/www/html with a single line of JavaScript Redirection code pointing to the index file in your /home/nigthfox This is the quick and dirty way out.. Actually an easier way is setting document root to /home/nightfox  except then I can't really have multiple sites...QUOTE I understand what you want - but it's gotta do something with your local DNS too.. that's what redirects requests to specific accounts on the same server. Yep, I figured that... mmmm... DNS.... QUOTE Let me ask around and if I get a satisfactory reply from any of my associates, I'll post back rightaway. Thanks m^e! That would be great!! [N]F |
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Jun 7 2006, 12:25 PM
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Nenad Bozidarevic  Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 1,002 Joined: 7-November 05 From: Belgrade, Serbia Member No.: 9,500 |
QUOTE(miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG @ Jun 7 2006, 09:49 AM) A simple tweak would be to place a blank index file in your /var/www/html with a single line of JavaScript Redirection code pointing to the index file in your /home/nigthfox This is the quick and dirty way out..True, but some people don't have JavaScript enabled, so that might be a problem. You can also redirect by entering this in the <head> part of the code: <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; WANTED URL"> |
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Jun 7 2006, 03:02 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 595 Joined: 4-September 04 Member No.: 228 |
This might be a dum question but does cjb.net domains work with DNS? So can you alter the name servers for the domain? See I thought they were just redirects.
About your actual question, I don't think you should resort to redirects, it should be quite easy to configure the right www root for the web server. |
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Jun 7 2006, 07:08 PM
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NiGHTFoX - Hiding in the dark Group: Members Posts: 680 Joined: 3-April 05 Member No.: 3,584 |
QUOTE(Hercco @ Jun 7 2006, 11:02 AM) This might be a dum question but does cjb.net domains work with DNS? So can you alter the name servers for the domain? See I thought they were just redirects. Yep: Login > Account Settings > Very bottom you can enter: -IP -Name Server 1 -Name Server 2 (they just added support for a secondary name server not to long ago) -IPv6 -Mail Server -Canonical Name They used to have all of that available when you signed up, but now they've sorta "hidden" it away. But I use a CJB.net domain here on my Astahost hosting account and it works just as well as a .com. Of course, it's blocked at school because it's a cjb.net domain, but it is still great! [N]F |
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