Since I am using Apache to host my web sites, and I am using virtual servers, the IP address of my cable modem always remains in the address bar. Can I change this?

When a user goes to www.brettpower.com, I want www.brettpower.com to be visible in the address bar, not the IP address.

Make sense?

First of all, you are doing some re-directing from one server to another server. When you do a wget on www.brettpower.com, you see the following.

wget www.brettpower.com
--23:03:50-- http://www.brettpower.com/
=> `index.html'
Resolving www.brettpower.com... done.
Connecting to www.brettpower.com[69.64.33.37]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://24.170.171.75/~brett/ [following]
--23:03:50-- http://24.170.171.75/%7Ebrett/
=> `index.html'
Connecting to 24.170.171.75:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 125 [text/html]

100%[=============================================================>] 125 122.07K/s ETA 00:00

23:03:50 (122.07 KB/s) - `index.html' saved [125/125]

The part where it says Location with the 24.x IP address, means that the user is being re-directed to another server for a new web page. Is the 24 address your server, that you are re-directing from another web server? If you are re-directing from one server to another server, then you need to have a DNS resolvable hostname to re-direct to. The reason the browser is showing the IP addres, is because that is where the original web page points to.

Okay. So I just need to setup a DNS server in order for this to work.

Guess I will start on that right now. If anybody has any good tips to make this easy and quick, let me know. Never done this before.

(I am using Webmin to do this remotely)

this is more likely a problem with your virtualhost setting in your httpd.conf , i assume you have two domain names registered to one ip


www.brettpower.com ---> 24.x.x.x
www.whatever.com ---> 24.x.x.x

NameVirtualhost *
<VirtualHost * >
ServerAdmin stuart@jamesnet.ca
DocumentRoot /www
ServerName www.brettpower.com
ServerAlias brettpower.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost * >
ServerAdmin stuart@jamesnet.ca
DocumentRoot /www1
ServerName www.whatever.com
ErrorLog logs/linux.net.error_log
TransferLog logs/linux_access_log
ServerAlias whatever.com
</VirtualHost >


as long as you have your dns pointing to the correct ip, when you access that hostname your dns server points to that ip , ie your

Non-authoritative answer:
www.brettpower.com canonical name = wfb.zoneedit.com.
Name: wfb.zoneedit.com
Address: 216.98.141.250
Name: wfb.zoneedit.com
Address: 69.64.33.37


currently these nameservers do not have a domain server running, port 53 is closed. You must contact your dns registrar and have them point your name servers to your computer running a dns server with an open dns port udp/tcp.