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| Posted by mystycs, 07-08-2007, 05:33 PM |
| Does anyone know of a tutorial that can teach me to setup a dns on my windows server for apache so instead of using an ip address i can use a domain and it would go to my website.
Thanks
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| Posted by mystycs, 07-08-2007, 06:30 PM |
| anything??
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| Posted by HD Fanatic, 07-08-2007, 06:33 PM |
| Seems you have quite a bit of questions with a new server. Maybe it's a good idea to hire a server admin to do these for you.
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| Posted by mystycs, 07-08-2007, 07:24 PM |
| grr i can do it myself if i have a tutorial hehe
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| Posted by Ooble, 07-08-2007, 08:08 PM |
| I am assuming you already have a domain.
The simplest way would be to use a third party solution, freedns.afraid.org or zoneedit.com
Create an 'A' Record from the domain to your server IP.
Setup a Vhost from apache config files to forward that domain to a particular folder.
OR
Install your own DNS server and then add a Vhost.
http://apptools.com/phptools/virtualhost.php
That will help you add the Vhost in Windows Apache.
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| Posted by mystycs, 07-08-2007, 08:14 PM |
| I have my dns ip's so all i do is add that to the domain and add the virtual thing so it knows which site to go to under which domain?
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| Posted by Ooble, 07-08-2007, 08:16 PM |
| Yes.
Edit the apache Vhost file so that the correct domain gets information from the correct folder.
The above tutorial should help you.
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| Posted by mystycs, 07-08-2007, 08:20 PM |
| One of my other sites is asp though do you know any way how to setup asp for apache?
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| Posted by Ooble, 07-08-2007, 08:22 PM |
| The link contains information on howto setup ASP on Apache on Windows
http://www.apache-asp.org/install.html
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| Posted by mystycs, 07-08-2007, 08:23 PM |
| Thanks so much appreciated
also one more question i have a CMS system is tehre a particular thing im suppose to allow on php.ini to ahve like index.php?blahblah=3363663
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| Posted by mystycs, 07-08-2007, 08:36 PM |
| Ok well my domain is mystycs.net and i want that to go to the aow folder.
NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1
DocumentRoot "C:\Program Files\GamePanel\Web"
ServerName gamepanel.local
DocumentRoot "C:\www\aow"
ServerName aow.local
If i give my domain the dns servers how wil it know which folder or ip address to go to for the aow site.
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| Posted by mystycs, 07-08-2007, 10:03 PM |
| anyone? just not sure the last step on how the dns is
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| Posted by mystycs, 07-08-2007, 11:24 PM |
| So if i put this
NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1
DocumentRoot "C:\Program Files\GamePanel\Web"
ServerName gamepanel.local
DocumentRoot "C:\www\aow"
ServerName aow.local
How do i get it to go to mystycs.net from aow.local how will it know?
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| Posted by spaethco, 07-09-2007, 01:53 AM |
| Pretty much anybody can follow a tutorial. The real trouble sets in when you don't understand the actions you are performing and thus have little chance of fixing problems in the future.
Do a few Google searches for 'NameVirtualHost'; if you still need help after that, give hiring an admin some serious reconsideration.
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| Posted by plumsauce, 07-09-2007, 02:24 AM |
| New dns setup is almost an FAQ in this forum.
I highly recommend using an external dns provider until you get the hang of things.
Also, check your work using dnsstuff.com
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