Multiple Directories Question

mosszaphod · - Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 21

Hello All,
How can I setup my web server to use a subdirectory or direct link. For example...let's say my e-mail server uses port 8000 to do the web mail and I have Abyss on port 80. To get to my main page you type: http://www.mydomain.com. To get to my e-mail you currently type: http://www.mydomain.com:8000. How would I set that up so I could type: http://mail.mydomain.com or http://www.mydomain.com/mail and either would redirect to http://www.mydomain.com:8000 (it easier to remember without the port and using a redirect. Any help is appreciated!

Zaphod

MonkeyNation · - Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Posts: 921 Location: Cardiff

You can't run two servers on the same address without having multiple IPs.
You could redirect /mail to port 8000 with a simple http redirect, however.
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mosszaphod · - Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 21

Moxxnixx · - Joined: 21 Jun 2003 Posts: 1226 Location: Florida

Does your domain registrar (Go Daddy) support URL redirect or URL framing?
If so, that would be the easiest method. Just create a subdomain in your registrar
and redirect it to the mail.

mosszaphod · - Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 21

Moxxnixx · - Joined: 21 Jun 2003 Posts: 1226 Location: Florida

GoDaddy has forwarding/masking. You can find out more here...
https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/faq/howto_guide.asp?se=%2B&ci=433#Forwarding

mosszaphod · - Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 21

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mosszaphod · - Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 21

Thanks so much for all the help guys and an extra thanks to the Big Cheese himself! I wanted to tell you what I did to get it working in case anyone else wants to know or has the problem.

My Domain: clanmoss.com
Web Directory: c:\WebPages (the root where I put my main index.html and subfolders)
Mail Server: ArGoSoft Mail Server Pro and current web address is: http://clanmoss.com:8000 and I want it to be: mail.clanmoss.com AND clanmoss.com/mail

Solution:

I made a folder called 'mail' in my WebPages directory. I made a txt file called index.html and put the following code in it:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; URL=http://www.clanmoss:8000/">
</HEAD>
<BODY>
Wait a second...
</BODY>
</HTML>

I saved this file in the c:\WebPages\mail directory I made. This allowed me at this point to be able to type: http://clanmoss.com/mail and get to my Mail Web pages which I wanted.

Now I want to be able to type: http://mail.clanmoss.com and get to the Mail Web page as well. For this I went to my c:\WebPages directory and renamed my index.html file to index2.html. I then created a txt file and named it index.php . I then put the following code into the index.php file and saved it:

<?php

//get domain entered in browser
if ($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] == "mail.clanmoss.com") {

//forward to appropriate page
header("Location : mail/index.html");
exit;

}
if ($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] == "clanmoss.com") {

header("Location : /index2.html");
exit;

}

//end duplicating, insert below.

//else show error page
else {

header("Location : error.html");
exit;

}

?><title>Opening Your Page ::</title>

After that I tested it and everything worked! I hope this helps anyone who wants to do similar things...thanks again to all that attempted to help me..keep up the GREAT work!

Zaphod

TRUSTAbyss · - Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 3752 Location: USA, GA

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For more information on this project, visit the website at:

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mosszaphod · - Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 21

AbyssUnderground · - Joined: 31 Dec 2004 Posts: 3855

Go to the video tutorial on AbyssUnderground, www.abyssunderground.co.uk/vhcproject.php
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mosszaphod · - Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 21

RTAdams89 · - Joined: 06 Nov 2005 Posts: 102

just make a folder called mail in your web server, create a html file called index.html and have it redirect to your e-mail address.

cmxflash · - Joined: 11 Dec 2004 Posts: 872

TRUSTAbyss · - Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 3752 Location: USA, GA