Re: setting up Web server

Thanks Stephanie for the help so far but I fear I am not communicating my needs to well and am still missing something.

At 9:52 AM -0800 12/26/00, Stephanie Wright wrote:

Thanks for the hints so far but it is still not hitting home. I believe I have been trying what has been suggested so far. My ISP domain is nwlink.com, I add that to my TCP/IP settings under Search domains along with my IP number (and other details).

The search domain should be your upstream ISP's domain name since they provide you with DNS.

The IP number for your machine ("nwlink.com") should go into the IP address field of TCP/IP control panel.

The primary and secondary DNS IP addresses, as provided by your ISP, should go into the DNS section of the TCP/IP control panel.

nwlink.com is the domain name server/Domain Suffix of my ISP, the upstream. So it is what I have entered into the TCP/IP control panel for search domain (nwlink.com is NOT the domain I am serving). The IP number and primary and secondary DNS IP addresses, as provided by my ISP, are also entered into the TCP/IP control panel.

My custom domain, www.kuwago.com, has been registered with Internic and set up by my ISP to be DNS served by nwlink.com

It's going to be served by the server, but nwlink.com domain doesn't really have anything to do with it, it just happens to also be a domain that is being served from the same hardware.

The nwlink.com domain is providing the domain name service and is also the domain name server for my computer.

and to point to the IP they assigned me. If I put in the host www.kuwago.com into Anarchie it does spit back the correct IP so it appears that part of it has been completed by my ISP.

It would seem to me that I should put in host: www, domain: kuwago.com. However, if I put in anything other than nwlink.com (for the domain in the WebTen preferences) WebTen will change it back to nwlink.com, even though the other domain is registered.

Where are you talking about entering this? If your upstream ISP has made the DNS entries (and it looks like they have), the only place you need to enter info is into the virtual host table.

I am talking about the Preferences of WebTen (under File) in the menu, as shown on page 38 of the manual. It still seems that what I need here is host: www, domain: kuwago.com but again WebTen will change the back to nwlink.com after I enter it (and thus my server is set as www.nwlink.com which it is absolutely not)! kuwago.com is a registered domain but is not the name of a domain server.

What do I place in WebTen preferences for the host and domain name?

In the virtual host table.

Not where, WHAT

host name = ? www ?

Domain name = ? kuwago.com ?

I suppose after I get this set up then I can enter other names into the virtual hosts table using the WebTen admin.

Do I need to be running the WebTen DNS service on my end?

No.

So DNS on my end is not necessary for virtual hosting with a single IP number?

It is recommended that you replace OT with Tenon's stack for performance reasons, but that may not work for you depending on what other applications you run on the same machine.

I only have one IP number available and do not want to pay an extra $25 per month for another. I do not need Tenon's stack for performance since this is a development server that I and maybe one or two other people in a day will interact with.

Michael

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