Hello.
I'm currently trying to migrate the forum to a new setup which hopefully will give us better performance, reliability, more frequent backups, etc...
The problem is that the new forum will be on a separate machine, and ideally I'd like "forum.defence-force.org" to just stay the same, except it would point on the new setup.
Right now I have two servers:
- www.defence-force.org, which is hosted by Yahoo!
- miniserve.defence-force.org which is handled by DNS trickery to redirect to my own server in my apartment using dyndns (to miniserve.getmyip.com)
I installed for testing the new phbBB3 on miniserve, at the current location:
http://miniserve.defence-force.org/www_ ... /index.php
What I'd like to do is to have forum.defence-force.org map directly to this location, so the user don't see www_forum/phpBB3. I want the user just see that they are on forum.defence-force.org, nothing else. How can I do that?
Ideally the solution should be evolutive, because I'd like at some point to have "wiki.defence-force.org" to redirect to miniserve as well, in it's own subfolder, same thing for things like perhaps blogs or Q&A type of engine.
What's the cleanest way to do that, knowing that I have almost no control on the Yahoo! hosted server (except the basic DNS/records/redirects) and that miniserve is running a good old apache2 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
Thanks in advance
Need help: How to play with DNS and URL redirects???
- barnsey123
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Doing a DIG on forums.defence-force.org reveals this:
forums.defence-force.org. 120 IN CNAME p8p.geo.vip.ne1.yahoo.com.
So maybe you just need to change this CNAME record to point to wherever you need it to go.
Might need to add an "A" record. such as
forums.defence-force.org. IN A nn.nn.nn.nn (where nn=your ip address)
(apologies in advance...it's been a while since I played with DNS)
Hope this helps.
forums.defence-force.org. 120 IN CNAME p8p.geo.vip.ne1.yahoo.com.
So maybe you just need to change this CNAME record to point to wherever you need it to go.
Might need to add an "A" record. such as
forums.defence-force.org. IN A nn.nn.nn.nn (where nn=your ip address)
(apologies in advance...it's been a while since I played with DNS)
Hope this helps.