i have a problem

i am the responsible person for the college system it is running red
hat linux9. i have to host a curriculum site for the students.the site is
ccna.com.now the thing i wanna do is if the student will type ccna.com in there internet explore add bar. i want it to redirect to the ftp serverthat is on the other pc that is also linux9.and the ip add of the first pc is 192.168.0.1 and the others 192.168.0.2the location is /var/ftp/pub/index.html. how do i do this....cuz i don't want it taking the space in both the harddisk.........

not sure if I fully understand your question but let me take a stab. you mean to say if your students (hundreds of them ) when they type ftp://ftp.ccna.com they access your computer no 2. If yes then all you need is a dns entry ftp.ccna.com to point at computer no 2.

If you mean to say when a student types in ftp://ccna.com then they should get redirected to computer no 2 (ccna.com points to comp no 1). This can be done in Iptables for computer no 1 to look for incoming connections on port 21.


hope this helps.

I'm not 100% on what's being asked either; I'm reading the original question the same as linuxxed is, though. Assuming that we're both understading the question, I would concur with linuxxed: using iptables for port forwarding or making a DNS mod should do the trick.

Unless you either don't have access to the DNS server (or to the ear of someone who does), or for one of a number of reasons, can't use the routing suggestion. Since your students have to load up a web page initially, anyway, couldn't you use an HTML redirect (or javascript, etc.) in that page to shuttle them over to the server you want them to go to?

- Larry