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12:26 pm
August 11, 2010
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sheila
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I will try and figure out how to get offensivesquid.com pointing here, if that is okay.
if it is, please give me pointers, since I am ignorant about this stuff.
hope me,
sh
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2:59 pm
August 11, 2010
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The Echo Inside
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Hey Sheila,
Got the e-mails as well. Been trying to think of what the best way to approach this is. Basically, it requires DNS which is a separate service from domain registration.
The cheapest/easiest way it seems, would be to use the DNS from the company you purchased the domain with and have it redirect to here using an .htaccess redirect. From what I read that will add $1.22 per year to your charge. It won't be transparent (as in, they'll see the domain change), but it should work.
That work, or thoughts?
Thanks
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"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers." – Kahlil Gibran
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9:27 am
August 12, 2010
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EdwardsDigital
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If I had a little bit more information (who the domain is registered through) and what the forum is running on (operating system/ webserver) I may be able to help troubleshoot. I am fairly good with webserver config, and web/graphic design.
Just let me know if I can help out, and I will see what I can do.
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10:07 am
August 12, 2010
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sheila
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I'll do some digging tonight or tomorrow. I have interesting work stuff to do today so I'll be distracted. and then tonight have python user group meeting, so that will be distracting too.
I've fiddled with something before to get a domain name to point to stuff hosted on another box and it involved some apache conf changes as well as dns record stuff, iirc. I may have some questions later.
I registered the domain via nearlyfreespeech.net, and so I can do stuff on their boxes (we get shell access) and also can add dns records.
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1:42 pm
August 12, 2010
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The Echo Inside
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Hrm, if your registrar allows that much shell access, that's rather neat. But, I assume it'd still only be available after requesting a DNS service. Usually special redirects are an added service to that, they are for my host certainly.
And my host does allow for an IRM addition for a fee (which would solve the problem with a simple point to their name servers, it would be transparent), however, mysql isn't permitted for that even when externally provided and the boards require that to function. So it kills that idea.
So, we're basically limited to sheila's provider for mechanisms to point here. So I guess the question becomes, do either of you know a means to do a transparent external redirect to a sub-directory? Afraid I don't, I only know of the non-transparent methods.
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"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers." – Kahlil Gibran
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4:34 pm
August 12, 2010
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EdwardsDigital
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So what I am seeing is that you (Echo) are providing the actual server (through an outside reseller), and Shiela is providing the domain name via a seperate reseller. Is that correct?
What kind of access do you have to the actual server configuration
I.E.: is this a dedicated linux box with an ip address that you have full control over (Apache / php / mysql configs and multiple site support on a single box; either virtual or physical)? Or are you limited to a proprietary control pannel provided for you?
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6:05 pm
August 12, 2010
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The Echo Inside
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Yep. The hosting is for my own site, but I use so little bandwidth, etc, that I offered to put up a forum with the extra resources. Sheila in the meantime had purchased the domain via the registrar she mention.
This lists just about everything about my host: http://www.futurequest.net/Ser…..ionary.php
In brief: I have a dedicated IP, but it is shared hosting, so virtual. I haven't had the need to poke around in the shell access, but I assume it has limited control because of that. They have a CNC, but that of course is pretty limited as well. As said, an IRM would make this easy, but because the forum requires mysql it's out of the question.
Do you perhaps know if .htaccess can redirect based on input domain? If it can, perhaps an IRO and that might might work, but I'm not sure if it would be transparent (I'm thinking it would be semi-transparent, only the directory perhaps shown), and I'd need to check if that violated their terms & conditions. It would also cost $20 for my host.
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"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers." – Kahlil Gibran
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10:53 am
August 14, 2010
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sheila
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Okay guys, I just set up a cname record for forums.offensivesquid.com to go to http://www.theechoinside.com. which doesn't get us what I want exactly yet.
give it an hour or so to see if that brings you to your main landing page. then we can see about figuring out how to configure your site to send people coming from that site to the forums page.
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1:46 pm
August 14, 2010
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sheila
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oh nevermind about forums.offensivesquid.com. I added a rewrite rule to .htaccess and have offensivesquid.com coming to the forums directly.
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4:46 pm
August 14, 2010
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The Echo Inside
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Nifty, thanks Sheila =) It seems to be working very fast, so perhaps people won't even notice the transparency. If that's even a concern, I guess. Either way, thanks again for it.
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"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers." – Kahlil Gibran
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