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From: Kevin Stephens <ksteph@idir.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Alias domains
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 13:48:05 -0600
Organization: Internet Direct Communications - Lawrence, Ks - (913) 841-2220
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On 22 Mar 1996, Rick Gaudreau wrote:

> Does anyone know if I can setup a index.html for alias domains in my 
> domain. If I www.wca.com or the aliase domain I get wca.com's index.html.
> Any help would be appreciated.
	On BSDI this is a very easy chore. First assign an IP address to the 
domain (foo.com) and give it a name record. Then all you need to do is an 
ifconfig, in the format of:

ifconfig ne0 127.0.0.1 alias
	 [1]     [2]    [3]  
[1] Interface
[2] IP address of www.foo.com
[3] alias to make it an alias and not the default address of the card.
	
	On our machine, it has a tendency to report I/O errors, however, it 
still works right ?!?!?!

	Then in your httpd.conf file you will need to make a virtual host 
entry. I would highly advice reading the helpfiles for your specific 
httpd. We use NCSA and has the format of:

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1 Optional>   ### Not 127.0.0.1 is replaced by 
				   ### www.foo.coms addresss.
DocumentRoot /users/foo/public_html/ ### Foo's directory where it finds 
				     ### index.html	 
ServerName foo.com	             ### name of the server. You can do just 
				     ### domain or host name also
</VirtualHost>

	It is as easy as that!!! SIGHUP httpd and give it a try. Let me know 
if you have problems.	

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