Domain question

[Greyd]

Heh..ok here's last question. If my friend has a domian registered www.xxxx.com but doesn't have webspace. Is there a way to route his domain to my web server/domain. For example he wants to keep his domain name and simply use my webspace - not just simply making links to my wespace. So..can he use www.xxxx.com and it satys that way in the title bar, but he's using my account/space? Sorry I know its not really that clear.

Nachos!

 

[notfred]

yes, he can do that, but it requires virtual hosting.

 

[Greyd]

Originally posted by: notfred
yes, he can do that, but it requires virtual hosting.

How does one acquire virtual hosting? (I have no idea what this is)

 

[LordThing]

You can do virtual hosting or URL re-directing/masking. The first is something you can do, the second is something you do at the domain register.

By the sounds of your question, you have a web hosting location. Do you have control over the Apache config and/or DNS of your domain? If so, you can set up the "Virtual Domain" in the Apache config so that when a request is made for his site(on port 80) or another port (if you want to get fancy), it routes it to another folder on your server rather than the default. That way you can host multiple sites off one IP. Then once you got the Virtual Domain settings up and running, just update DNS with the server IP and you are golden.

If you do not have control over the apache config, you might be able to do it a dirty meathod with Domain Masking. You can set up a folder for him on your web host. Then, on the domain side, you can have it "mask" the re-direct of traffic to the location. It can even keep the domain name in the location field while you surf. This is effective for those that have crappy hosting from a free site.

Hope this stuff made sense

 

[helloedchen]

from the sounds of it, you are using shared hosting at the moment. ask your host if you are able to do domain alias'ing. they should be able to work something out for you. you wont be able to accomplish this on your end without their help.