I am planning to offer shared ip hosting. How would you go about creating temporary addresses the customer can use while their domain is transfered to your dns servers?

I would probably use something like customersdomain.temp.myhostingcomany.com. But how whould i "bind" this up to the customers virtual site?

This would be done on Cobalts, by the way.

Wazup

What I'd do:

ln -s /home/sites/www.customerdomain.com/web /home/sites/www.yourdomain.com/web/customerdomain

Is this on a Raq4? If so just create the users site, but use the web server alias to point a temporary name like client.yoursite.com...

Yeah, Raq4.

Ok, so I can point cutomer.mydomain.com to the ip of customer.com in dns. Then add cutomer.mydomain.com to customer.com`s "Web Server Aliases".

I won`t be able to do any testing until I get the dns servers up, running and registered.

Wazup

Yes, think so :)

And then there is the ugly

mydomain.com/~username

which normally does not require work for each added account,
but then I don't know what the RAQ will do with this.
Gary