website Server Alias
 

hey!
could some one help troubleshoot
i need to be able to open my website without necessarily placing a www. in the address bar
configs below


@ IN SOA ns1.m.com. admin.m.com. (

20070932 ;
3h ;
1h ;
1w ;
10h ) ;

IN NS ns1.m.com.
IN NS ns2.m.com.

IN MX 10 smtp.m.com.


IN A 1.1.1.1 ****is this the problem ? what does this acheive?

ns1 IN A 1.1.1.1
ns2 IN A 2.2.2.2


www IN A 3.3.3.3
smtp IN A 4.4.4.4
ns1 IN A 1.1.1.1
ns2 IN A 2.2.2.2




my vhosts file for the website is as follows

<VirtualHost 3.3.3.3:80>
ServerAdmin admin@m.com
ServerName www.m.com
ServerAlias m.com
DocumentRoot /www//html
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /www//html/cgi-bin/
ErrorLog /www//logs/error_log
</VirtualHost>


if i ping m.com it resolves to ns1.m.com
if i put www.m.com the website site opens
however i would like to be able to put m.com in the address bar without the www and have it resolve the to the website.


thanks

You should addin the zone file, increase serial and reload zone. From the apache part you're OK.

Regards

thanks for the quick response
adding 3.3.3.3 allows me to resolve *.m.com e.g m.m.com however it does not resolve for m.com without the anything before the m, any more suggestions

thanks

@ is the origin record and it should be the same as the domain name. You can use to achieve the same result. You have to remove "IN A 1.1.1.1" if you want your domain to resolve in 3.3.3.3 as your www

i'm thinking the problem is with the alias,
here's why : - i have several vhosts files and even after removing IN A 1.1.1.1 it will still resolve *.m.com and not m.com
any other ideas

thanks

The ServerAlias in your vhost is correct. What is the output of:

Also I always make the ServerAlias in the httpd.conf file as the www or *.domain.com like:

here's the output
a ping will use round robin and to resolve *.m.com but not m.com neither will the page load
m.com
i'll need to look into this closer away from the production server


[root@webs vhosts]# nslookup m.com
Server: 2.2.2.2
Address: 1.1.1.1#53

Name: m.com
Address: 2.2.2.2



[root@webs vhosts]# nslookup www.m.com
Server: 2.2.2.2
Address: 1.1.1.1#53

Name: m.com
Address: 2.2.2.2

is it possible to ping a server alias ?
how do i go about testing this ?

Of course you can ping a server alias, since it resolves to a valid IP address.
What I don't understand is the output of the nslookup commands in your previous post. How can "Server" and "Address" be different? How about running nslookup using the dns IP: