Accessing a directory via a forward Domain...

Hello everyone,

This really doesn't have much to do with Linux other than my server is
a Linux box. I thought this would be a good place to get some help
though. Okay, my problem is as follows.

I have a domain (www.mydomain.com) parked at godaddy.com and forwarding
to my static IP (012.34.56.789) this works fine. If I go to a browser
and type in www.mydomain.com I get my web page. Okay, I added dir
under /var/www/html/ and named it mydir so the path is
/var/www/html/mydir and placed an index file in it. Here is the
problem. I can access it if I use the following,
http://012.34.56.789/mydir/ but if I use www.mydomain.com/christmas/ I
get a 404 error from the parking DNS server.

Is this NORMAL??

If I link to it from a page in the root of my webserver it works fine.
I.E. browse to www.mydomain.com click on a link to (relative)
christmas/index.html it loads.

Is there a way around this? This leads in to my second question...
Right now I have a DNS set up on my server. It is set to "notify no".
At godaddy.com I can't point to my IP as it says it is not a valid name
server. If I change this to "notify yes" is there anything else I
would need to do to host my domain on my local server instead of having
it forward from godaddy?

I realize this may not be explained very well. Thanks for the help and
feel free to request more information if I have left something out.
PhilD

"PhilD" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hello everyone,
>
> This really doesn't have much to do with Linux other than my server is
> a Linux box. I thought this would be a good place to get some help
> though. Okay, my problem is as follows.
>
> I have a domain (www.mydomain.com) parked at godaddy.com and forwarding
> to my static IP (012.34.56.789) this works fine. If I go to a browser
> and type in www.mydomain.com I get my web page. Okay, I added dir
> under /var/www/html/ and named it mydir so the path is
> /var/www/html/mydir and placed an index file in it. Here is the
> problem. I can access it if I use the following,
> http://012.34.56.789/mydir/ but if I use www.mydomain.com/christmas/ I
> get a 404 error from the parking DNS server.
>
> Is this NORMAL??
>
> If I link to it from a page in the root of my webserver it works fine.
> I.E. browse to www.mydomain.com click on a link to (relative)
> christmas/index.html it loads.
>
> Is there a way around this? This leads in to my second question...
> Right now I have a DNS set up on my server. It is set to "notify no".
> At godaddy.com I can't point to my IP as it says it is not a valid name
> server. If I change this to "notify yes" is there anything else I
> would need to do to host my domain on my local server instead of having
> it forward from godaddy?
>
> I realize this may not be explained very well. Thanks for the help and
> feel free to request more information if I have left something out.
> PhilD

Read up on bind and setup your own nameserver. Google free secondary DNS's.
Parked domains work for single page websites but for "real" websites you
need to use a full DNS.

It is simple, it is easy, it is free.

About all it takes is some minor editing of /etc/named.conf and creating
/var/named/mydomain.com.zone.

If you change your network settings you will find that web access from your
linux box is faster by not using your ISP's DNS server.


Randy

Thanks for the reply. I think I will set one up on Public-DNS.org to
be used as my secondary. I already have bind running on my server with
my domain name, just not notifing. Godaddy requires to DNS servers
anyway I think.

I will give this a try and let everyone know what happend. Any other
questions / suggestions are always welcome.

PhilD

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 11:04:22 -0600, "Randy McLaughlin"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:


>Read up on bind and setup your own nameserver. Google free secondary DNS's.
>Parked domains work for single page websites but for "real" websites you
>need to use a full DNS.

Or alternatively go to zoneedit.com. They provide free primary and
secondary DNS.

Dan

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