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Re: Changing domains

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From: Brent N. Hunter
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 00:00
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Harold Sasaki wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 05 Jul 1996 Brent N. Hunter <bhunter@cyberpark.com> wrote:
> 
> => Sorry, I wasn't very clear about what I want to do...
> 
> => I have two machines with lots of web pages, graphics, sound files, etc.
> =>  I need to change to a new domain.  I don't want to duplicate all of my
> => files unless I absolutely need to, since I'd have to purchase another
> => disk drive.  Can I achieve this by using symbolic links or something
> => like that?  I need to have both domains accessible at the same time for
> => about six months and I don't want to have to maintain both sets of pages
> => if at all possible.
> 
> => Not to make it even more complex, but I also need to send and receive
> => email at both domains...
> 
> => OS is FreeBSD.  One machine uses the Besthttpd and the other machine
> => uses the Apache httpd.
> 
> I'm not sure about how to set up the IP addresses on FreeBSD, but to set
> up the Apache server you don't have to duplicate the files.
> 
> <VirtualHost www.domain1.com>
> ServerAdmin you@domain1.com
> DocumentRoot /a/b/c/apache/htdocs
> ServerName www.domain1.com
> ErrorLog logs/errors_log
> TransferLog logs/access_log
> </VirtualHost>
> 
> <VirtualHost www.domain2.com>
> ServerAdmin you@domain2.com
> DocumentRoot /a/b/c/apache/htdocs
> ServerName www.domain2.com
> ErrorLog logs/errors_log
> TransferLog logs/access_log
> </VirtualHost>
> 
> If FreeBSD is like Solaris, you just have to set up the machine to answer
> to both IP addresses and configure your mail alias file and take care of
> DNS.  I'm not sure about the exact syntax.

Great, I'll give it a try.  Thanks very much!

Matt Dillon: can you please comment on whether or not this will work for 
the Best httpd?

Thanks again!

Brent
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From: "Brent N. Hunter" <bhunter@cyberpark.com>
Subject: Re: Changing domains
Date: 1996/07/07
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