I'm currently hosting my friends website on my web server. What I did was set him up a domain name that does forwarding and masking to my domain name/his folder. So it forwards to http://mydomain.com/his folder and masks it so that his domain is http://hisdomain.com

But I don't like that for one main reason. If someone was to type http://hisdomain.com/somefolder then it says no page found, because of the forwarding and masking thing.

Another thing is right now my domain points to a DNS server on the network where my server is and that points to my IP.

Is any of this making any sense?

So basically I want my friend to be able to use: http://hisdomain.com/whatever_folder_he_wants. Also it would be nice for him to have email to come to hisdomain.com

I was just wondering if there was a way to make bind DNS point to a folder instead of a server. So I could setup his domain name to point to my server's IP instead of forwarding and masking?

Is any of this possible or have I just confused the issue?

Thanks.

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Nathan Peters

What I think you should really do is set up DNS so that his domain points to your IP address, then you can do some configuring in apache to have it work out correctly.

Forget the whole forwarding junk, or whatever you're talking about ( yes, it makes no sense :-P well sorta ;-) )

hey what's up

lol took this long for someone to reply that sux...guess i'm too dang confusing haha

neways.......nah man i got it fixed

I did similar to what you said

I first edited the domain name to point to the IP of my server instead of name servers

Then I set up virtual hosts in apache......

pretty straight forward and real easy

works like a charm now

Yep, that's what I was talking about. Yeah, I've been away from linuxquestions for a good week or so, normally a question likes yours I'd have skimmed over and given you the good quick response.

Good to know you got it working.