I'm running fedora core 7 with bind 9. I host a www server and mail server on the same machine with webmail. I would like mail.domain.com to go directly to the webmail and not my default webpage. I understand DNS and I'm familiar enough with bind to be able to get around. But I just can't figure out how to have mail.domain.com pull domain.com/webmail Thank you for your time, Joe
You can do this with an Apache rewrite rule (see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/misc/rewriteguide.html ), or you create a new vhost for mail.domain.com in Apache (pointing to your existing webmail directory).
Issue setuping up Vhost A while ago i setup a web and mail server and used a Vhost to point mail.domain.com to the webmail dir. I am in the process of redoing the server due to a dead hard drive. My httpd.conf file has this entry <virtualhost mail.domain.com> ServerName mail.domain.com DocumentRoot /var/www/html/webmail </virtualhost> I have tried multiple configs from the apache site and i'm ready to shot myself in the head. (figure of speech ONLY) When i have it setup (what i believe is correct) domain.com and mail.domain.com go to the same darn place "DOMAIN.COM" I'm spacing something really simple i know but hell if i can find it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance. JSHEL
What does your browser show when you go to mail.domain.com ? any errors about the setup in the apache or syslog logs?
If i go to mail.domain.com the browser just brings up domain.com, and i'm not getting anything in the logs what so ever. No error starting httpd either. I have turned on debug. I'll post some of the logs tomorrow at work. I really appreciate the help. Thank you.
Can you post the vhost configurations of mail.domain.com and domain.com? What's the output of Code: ifconfig ?
Morning, I figured it out. I pulled my head out of the box and realized i was for getting to put in the (NameVirtualHost *:80) directive. all is running well now. for anyone else you must have these entrys NameVirtualHost *:80 <virtualhost *:80> servername domain.com documentroot /some/dir </virtualhost> <virtualhost *:80> servername mail.domain.com documentroot /some/dir/webmail_dir </virutalhost> Thank you for everyones help on this issue.
You can also add cname record for your mail.domain.com and then in your webmail vhost (webmail.domain.com for example) you can add Code: ServerAlias mail.domain.com mail2.domain.com
