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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.emeraldis.com!david From: david@emeraldis.com (David G. Cannon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Domain Name for Home Page Date: Sat, 03 Aug 96 17:52:54 GMT Organization: Emerald Internet Services Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4u04m2$o5l@jade.emeraldis.com> References: <3201DEA2.3117@macnet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: david.emeraldis.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #2 First, I recommend you get Apache for your httpd. If you have BSDI 2.1, you have Apache. If you have an earlier version of BSDI, you may want to switch from NCSA to Apache. Second, go to: http://www.apache.org and read about virtual hosting. Also, if you have BSDI 2.1, there is a section about virtual hosting in the manual. David G. Cannon In article <3201DEA2.3117@macnet.com>, bwitkop@macnet.com wrote: > I don't seem to have the books in front of me, so here it is. > > What's the best to have a client's homepage show up with it's own domain > name. > > Example: > > http://foo.com/~fdoe would like it to read JohnDoeWorld.com > > I guess there's got to be some Internic intervension there somewere, but > which files are required to point this new domain to > /home/jdoe/index.html instead of the expected /var/www/docs/index.html > for foo.com? > > that's about it.