DNS and URL

Hi,

On our Windows network, I have an Intranet server whose URL is -
http://server1/intranet/Page5...for example.

I want it so that when a user types in - http://intranet - they get to
the Intranet at http://server1/intranet/Page5.

I have gone into our internal DNS server and added an A host but this
only seems to resolve to the IP address of the server...I want the
user to get to http://server1/intranet/Page5 not http://server1.

Is there something I am missing.

Thanks for any feedback...

kieran5405 <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On our Windows network, I have an Intranet server whose URL is -
> http://server1/intranet/Page5...for example.
>
> I want it so that when a user types in - http://intranet - they get to
> the Intranet at http://server1/intranet/Page5.
>
> I have gone into our internal DNS server and added an A host but this
> only seems to resolve to the IP address of the server...I want the
> user to get to http://server1/intranet/Page5 not http://server1.
>
> Is there something I am missing.
>
> Thanks for any feedback...

This isn't a function of DNS. This (redirect) is something you'd do in your
web page itself. All you could do in DNS is set up a CNAME for intranet,
that points at server1.internaldomain.com. But it wouldn't get you any
further than http://server1.

Does anyone know of a way to do this using say active directory or
some other network method.

I dont want to use a javascript redirect.

Thanks for all help...

It doesn't have to be a java re-direct? Cant you just do a host header
re-direction... Your web servers sees a request for http://server1 but sends
the user http://server1/intranet/Page5.

Your web server is the place to do this.

"kieran5405" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:9ee96994-c185-4763-943b-(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>
> Does anyone know of a way to do this using say active directory or
> some other network method.
>
> I dont want to use a javascript redirect.
>
> Thanks for all help...

kieran5405 <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way to do this using say active directory or
> some other network method.

Nope...but "you're welcome" for the previous reply anyway.

>
> I dont want to use a javascript redirect.

Javascript has nothing to do with this. As I said, this is something you
need to do on your webserver/in the page itself. It is not an AD, DNS, or
otherwise networky thing.
>
> Thanks for all help...

"Dave Lee" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> It doesn't have to be a java re-direct? Cant you just do a host header
> re-direction... Your web servers sees a request for http://server1 but
> sends the user http://server1/intranet/Page5.

No, because "intranet/Page5" is not part of the Host Header,...the Host
Header is just another name for the Domain Name (not the whole URL).

It needs to be done in the Web Page code itself. It isn't my strong area,
but I think HTTP can also do a redirect (in the Meta Tags?),...it doesn't
have to be scripted.

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