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can this be done ?

ivan wrote:can this be done ?

Yes with Virtual host in http.conf (apache)

yeh i have tried this before and cant get it to work with my setup... apache starts fine, but sub domains dont work. i use name based vhost on a dns name i get from servehttp.com so i am basically already on a subdomain. but if you read the docs a subdomain should alow for another subdomain below it. like my url is somesite.servehttp.com and i want mail.somesite.servehttp.com it should work, but it points to the wrong ip. any ideas? also i run a mail server on my server, and it runs on port 8080 its a self contained webmail server is it posible to use name based vhosting like mail.somesite.servehttp.com to point to somesite.servehttp.com:8080 ? i have looked but don't think its possible

MAGnUm wrote:yeh i have tried this before and cant get it to work with my setup... apache starts fine, but sub domains dont work. i use name based vhost on a dns name i get from servehttp.com so i am basically already on a subdomain. but if you read the docs a subdomain should alow for another subdomain below it. like my url is somesite.servehttp.com and i want mail.somesite.servehttp.com it should work, but it points to the wrong ip. any ideas? also i run a mail server on my server, and it runs on port 8080 its a self contained webmail server is it posible to use name based vhosting like mail.somesite.servehttp.com to point to somesite.servehttp.com:8080 ? i have looked but don't think its possible

ok lets try this..
first of all u need wildcards enebled so that mail.somesite.servehttp.com works.... if ur provider does not allow that u shold switch to http://www.no-ip.com
geting apache to pint to port 8080 is easy just use the buildin proxy for that here an example

NameVirtualHost mail.somesite.servehttp.com:80

<VirtualHost mail.somesite.servehttp.comt:80>

ServerName mail.somesite.servehttp.com
ServerAlias mail.somesite.servehttp.com
ServerAdmin admin@domain.de

DocumentRoot /blabla/htdocs
CustomLog /blabla/log/access.log combined
ErrorLog /blabla/log/error.log

ProxyPass / http://mail.somesite.servehttp.com:8080/
ProxyPassReverse / http://mail.somesite.servehttp.com:8080/

</VirtualHost>

that should to it

greetz form germany

will try it and let you know thanks in advance

Why is this stuff still needed if its just going to use the builtin proxy?

DocumentRoot /blabla/htdocs
CustomLog /blabla/log/access.log combined
ErrorLog /blabla/log/error.log

when i tried the example all it did was go to the document root i put in the vhost it didn't do the redirection like it should. any ideas?

here is more information

my mail server has a web interface of its own not related to apache. i would like to redirect to it via mail.myhost.servehttp.com but to get to the the mail server via the internet you must go to https://myhost.servehttp.com:23001. i realize it would be just as easy to make a regular vhost and put a script to redirect, but i want this to work.