2009/2/23 David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>:
on Mon Feb 23 2009, DongInn Kim <dikim-AT-osl.iu.edu> wrote:
Can you setup the DNS of wiki.boost.org to just point to 129.79.245.252 without aliasing for svn.boost.org? This cause me difficult to setup its vhost properly.
For example,
[root@wowbagger wiki.boost.org]# host wiki.boost.org wiki.boost.org is an alias for svn.boost.org. svn.boost.org has address 129.79.245.252 [root@wowbagger wiki.boost.org]# host beta.boost.org beta.boost.org has address 129.79.245.252 [root@wowbagger wiki.boost.org]#
I could, but --- and I'm no www expert --- I think there ought to be a redirect so that there's a canonical web address for the wiki. Otherwise you get search engines spidering it twice, etc, no?
I might be wrong about this but I believe CNAME is only used to lookup the server's ip address, and has nothing to do with redirects. I think it's basically a layer of indirection for DNS lookups. I don't think it should affect the vhosts setup. The redirect has to be done as a HTTP response. Daniel