A slightly off ZOPE topic and BASIC but anyway: Basic URL def: protocol://subdomain.second-level-domain. top-level-domain:port/directory/filename So you get and register a second-level -domain name such as "mysite" with a top-level-domain such as "org". Good! Now say you want to set up multiple subdomains, for example: - tarzan.mysite.org - jane.mysite.org Can these subdomains be in totally different locations hosted by different hosts? Say I have a primary site - mysite.org hosted by HOST1 Can I use HOST2 in another location to host: - tarzan.mysite.org and - jane.mysite.org ? Does HOST1 have to do something to re-route to subdomain HOST2? What about e-mail? Can I get email at HOST1 in the form - bob@mysite.org and also different email at HOST2 - bob@tarzan.mysite.org IF this is possible, it would save unnecessary domain registration and make it easy to set up additional subsites. *TIA Zopesters -Bob OConnor bob@rocnet.com
This is the way DNS already works. Get the DNS and Bind book or search around for DNS information (eg., www.isc.org/bind/) - you want MX information in particular. --Rick
On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 06:16:00AM -0400, Robert O'Connor wrote: A slightly off ZOPE topic and BASIC but anyway: Basic URL def:
protocol://subdomain.second-level-domain. top-level-domain:port/directory/filename
So you get and register a second-level -domain name such as "mysite" with a top-level-domain such as "org". Good!
Now say you want to set up multiple subdomains, for example:
- tarzan.mysite.org - jane.mysite.org
Can these subdomains be in totally different locations hosted by different hosts?
Say I have a primary site
- mysite.org hosted by HOST1
Can I use HOST2 in another location to host: - tarzan.mysite.org and - jane.mysite.org ?
Does HOST1 have to do something to re-route to subdomain HOST2?
What about e-mail? Can I get email at HOST1 in the form - bob@mysite.org and also different email at HOST2 - bob@tarzan.mysite.org
IF this is possible, it would save unnecessary domain registration and make it easy to set up additional subsites.
*TIA Zopesters
-Bob OConnor bob@rocnet.com
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Robert O'Connor wrote:
A slightly off ZOPE topic and BASIC but anyway: Basic URL def:
ACtually it has nothing to do with Zope ...
protocol://subdomain.second-level-domain. top-level-domain:port/directory/filename
So you get and register a second-level -domain name such as "mysite" with a top-level-domain such as "org". Good!
Now say you want to set up multiple subdomains, for example:
- tarzan.mysite.org - jane.mysite.org
you just register names tarzan and jane in the DNS server for mysite org. they can point to anything. like: make zope point to www.zope.org, so that you can access zope.org as zope.mysite.org (it may interfere with named virtual host setup, which is broken in current Zope anyway :) (ie. the base url gets constructed with numeric IP address) make warez point to 127.0.0.1, so that warez.mysite.org points to each users own computer
Can these subdomains be in totally different locations hosted by different hosts?
yes
Say I have a primary site
- mysite.org hosted by HOST1
Can I use HOST2 in another location to host: - tarzan.mysite.org and - jane.mysite.org ?
yes DNS is juat a name to IP address mapping, where the address can point anywhere
Does HOST1 have to do something to re-route to subdomain HOST2?
absolutely nothing
What about e-mail? Can I get email at HOST1 in the form - bob@mysite.org and also different email at HOST2 - bob@tarzan.mysite.org
yes, although this is a somewhat different matter, involving DNS MX records which can be separate from real IP addresses ---------------------- Hannu
For some documentation, examples, and (incidentally) free DNS service check out http://soa.granitecanyon.com/ I've used them for over a year and they seems to know what they are doing. -- Craig Allen - Managing Partner - Mutual Alchemy Information Architecture - http://alchemy.nu
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