I have a RaQ 3 at 4webspace.com. Suppose this case:

1. Virtual site: site1.com
2. User site: site1.com/~user2

I need that a new domain (site2.com) points to site1.com/~user2

In a "normal" unix server I would change apache's httpd.conf to point to:
/home/sites/site1/users/user2 instead of /home/sites/siteNNN/web, as the GUI does by default.

This can't be done from Cobalt's GUI. Appart from voiding garantees, and that old story, how can I do it? Support@tera-byte tell me they can only support it via redirection.net. They are right, it's not supported. But that's not the service I want to provide. I want to make virtual hosting :) .

My question is: IF I change the httpd.conf file for this very domain, won't I be able to make any changes for ANY domain in my server, or only for THIS domain in particular?

I have read about Jeff Bilicki's shell tools (I believe they are installed by default in OS update 4). This allows for setting up virtual sites, users, deleting them, etc.

Will I have to resign EVERY action from the GUI for EVERY domain in the server, or only those commands affecting apache for THIS very domain?

Regards from Madrid,
Daniel

just an idea:

1.) generate site1 & the users on site one
2.) generate site2
3.) login via telnet, cd /home/sites/www.site2.com
4.) rm web
5.) ln -s /home/sites/www.site2.com/web /home/sites/www.site1.com/users/xyz/web

thats it.

notes:
- check the path in step 5, just did it out of my mind
- step 4 deletes the web directory of site2
- step 5 generates a symlink called web (which we deleted in 4.) to the userweb of site1
- this should work for 99%, I didn't try it

Thanks, iplexx, I'll try and then will tell if it works.

Cheers,
Daniel

Great iplexx!

It really works fine! Now my question is how to allow email for *@site2.com to work with this configuration... Any ideas?

Daniel

This works for me :)

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On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Trevor Munday wrote:

> Searched the archive and knowledge base and found a part answer but looking
> for something a little more secure!
>
> A customer wants to be able to accept e-mail at domain.com and domain.co.uk.
>
> Yes I could set-up 2 virtual sites, but I want to be able to collect the
> e-mail using 1 virtual site.
>
> How can I configure a RaQ3 to accept the second domains e-mail using a User
> account in the virtual site of the first domain?

Hi Trevor,

Sorry if some of the stuff below is a bit basic, but I don't know how
familar you are with editing system files on your Raq.

Bear in mind that editing system files technically invalidates your
warranty (but then how can anyone administer a Raq properly without
editing system files....).

Assuming that you want mail for domain.co.uk to go to a user on
domain.com and that the user's name is user1:

First set up DNS for domain.co.uk and domain.com as normal, including MX
records. Then set up a virtual site in the control panel for domain.com,
but not for domain.co.uk. Set up user1 for domain.com

Login as root

Back up the files that you will be editing:
cp /etc/sendmail.cw /etc/sendmail.cw.backup
cp /etc/virtusertable /etc/virtusertable.backup

Then edit the files as required:

pico -w /etc/sendmail.cw
Go to the end of the file and type:
domain.co.uk
http://www.domain.co.uk

Then Ctrl-X to exit from pico and save the file

pico -w /etc/virtusertable
Go to the end of the file beneath the line that reads "# Put custom
additions below" and type:

@domain.co.uk user1
@www.domain.co.uk user1

Then Ctrl-X to exit from pico and save the file

Then at the command prompt type:
/usr/bin/makemap hash /etc/virtusertable < /etc/virtusertable
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart

Now you should be set up so that user1@domain.com will get all the email
for anyone@domain.co.uk

You might also want to add a line to the virtual server setting for
domain.com in your /etc/httpd.conf file so that anyone going to
http://www.domain.co.uk ends up at http://www.domain.com. Remember to back up httpd.conf
first.

To do this add the following line below the existing ServerAlias line:

ServerAlias domain.co.uk http://www.domain.co.uk

Hope that helps.

Regards,

Roger Harrison
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