Vhosts

[Jean-Pierre Denis]

Hi,

Brett Proctor wrote:

> Can someone give me a quick rundown of Vhosts and how they relate to IRC and
> BNC. I understand mostly what BNC does but am not quite sure on Vhosts.

> So far it seems to me that you just register some top level domaing
> (mysite.com) and then you can just add whatever prefixes for free on the fly
> like (iamsupercool.mysite.com).

Your web server can be configured to serve this on the fly.

> But how does it resolve this? Does the
> resolution for imsupercool get sent to whatever box is at mysite.com? Or
> does this have to get added into the main DNS servers?

each vhosts need a DNS record.
Their name need be resolved in order for the application to know where to send
the request

--
Thanks,
JP

Jean-Pierre Denis
jp at msfree dot ca

[Brett Proctor]

Can someone give me a quick rundown of Vhosts and how they relate to IRC and
BNC. I understand mostly what BNC does but am not quite sure on Vhosts. So
far it seems to me that you just register some top level domaing
(mysite.com) and then you can just add whatever prefixes for free on the fly
like (iamsupercool.mysite.com). But how does it resolve this? Does the
resolution for imsupercool get sent to whatever box is at mysite.com? Or
does this have to get added into the main DNS servers?

[Brett Proctor]

"Jean-Pierre Denis" <jp@msfree_NOSPAM_.ca> wrote in message
news:40738441.50C8F31C@msfree_NOSPAM_.ca...

> Hi,
>
> Brett Proctor wrote:
>

> > Can someone give me a quick rundown of Vhosts and how they relate to IRC

and

> > BNC. I understand mostly what BNC does but am not quite sure on Vhosts.

>

> > So far it seems to me that you just register some top level domaing
> > (mysite.com) and then you can just add whatever prefixes for free on the

fly

> > like (iamsupercool.mysite.com).

>
> Your web server can be configured to serve this on the fly.
>

> > But how does it resolve this? Does the
> > resolution for imsupercool get sent to whatever box is at mysite.com? Or
> > does this have to get added into the main DNS servers?

>
> each vhosts need a DNS record.
> Their name need be resolved in order for the application to know where to

send

> the request

By DNS record do you mean only locally in a hosts.conf file or is there an
official registration that must occur with some third online party? Like
once mysite.com gets resolved to my computer with a url like john.mysite.com
will MY server at mysite.com be asked to resolve where JOHN.mysite.com is
at?

>
> --
> Thanks,
> JP
>
> Jean-Pierre Denis
> jp at msfree dot ca
>
>

[Trent Curry]

Brett Proctor wrote:

> "Jean-Pierre Denis" <jp@msfree_NOSPAM_.ca> wrote in message
> news:40738441.50C8F31C@msfree_NOSPAM_.ca...

>> Hi,
>>
>> Brett Proctor wrote:
>>

>>> Can someone give me a quick rundown of Vhosts and how they relate
>>> to IRC and BNC. I understand mostly what BNC does but am not quite
>>> sure on Vhosts.

>>

>>> So far it seems to me that you just register some top level domaing
>>> (mysite.com) and then you can just add whatever prefixes for free
>>> on the fly like (iamsupercool.mysite.com).

>>
>> Your web server can be configured to serve this on the fly.
>>

>>> But how does it resolve this? Does the
>>> resolution for imsupercool get sent to whatever box is at
>>> mysite.com? Or does this have to get added into the main DNS
>>> servers?

>>
>> each vhosts need a DNS record.
>> Their name need be resolved in order for the application to know
>> where to send the request

>
>
> By DNS record do you mean only locally in a hosts.conf file or is
> there an official registration that must occur with some third online
> party? Like once mysite.com gets resolved to my computer with a url
> like john.mysite.com will MY server at mysite.com be asked to resolve
> where JOHN.mysite.com is at?

But if someone else needs to get there too, it will need a DNS record
online that anyone can see. This can usually be done by editing the zone
file for your domain. Most domains have nice web based cotnrol panels
that let you ad the DNS (or A Records).

IE if your domain is mydomain.com, you cna add subdomains like
a.mydomain.com
b.mydomain.com
c.mydomain.com
blah.mydomain.com
bleh.mydomain.com
bloh.mydomain.com
what.mydomain.com
ever.mydomain.com

(Probably a bit extream here but I'm sure ya get the picture now :)


--
Trent Curry - [email]trentcurryReMoVe@rEmOvEhotmail.com[/email]

[yebotv]

Can someone please post, and/or email some configuration examples if I wanted
to have sites like:

subdomain1.domain.com
subdomain2.domain.com
subdomain3.domain.com

I have flash media server up and working just fine, I am just having some
diffuculties with the server configurations. I have Followed as much as i could
as far as a couple of other posts here, but I was not successful. Any help
would be apprecaited.