[BlueOnyx:00551] Re: Curious re-direct behavior when creating a site www.foo.com that already exists

[Jeff Jones]

Ah!

So you mean there is no:
"Stop the curious re-direct behavior when creating a site www.foo.com  
that already exists"

Checkbox? :)

I think I will try the DNS approach!

Nice idea.

Cheers,

Jeff

Jeff Jones
jeffrhysjones at mac.com



On 18 Feb 2009, at 13:28, Michael Stauber wrote:

> Hi Jeff,
>
>> When I create the new site in BO - and I call this site 'www.foo.com'
>> - even though I have not restored over any files for it yet - if I
>> change my local hosts file so that www.foo.com now points to the new
>> BO box - BO somehow still redirects me to the BQ 'live' site.
>>
>> To get it to work, have to change the site domain to bo.foo.com.
>
> Yeah, remember that it's name based hosting. So when you point your  
> browser to
> www.foo.com your browser resolves what IP that site runs on by  
> querying the
> DNS records. Your browser then connects to that IP and tells the  
> Apache there:
> "Yoo, slacker, show me the webpage for www.foo.com!"
>
> The Apache then checks "Do I host a www.foo.com?" and if it finds  
> it, it'll
> serve the corresponding webpage(s).
>
> Depending on where your DNS points to and depending on how the site  
> is named
> on the new server you may not end up looking at page you wanted to  
> see,
> because your DNS still points to the "old box".
>
> As a work around you could set up the DNS for the new site on  
> BlueOnyx on that
> BlueOnyx server and configure your workstation to use the BlueOnyx  
> DNS server
> for resolving DNS. That way you can test your migrated site before  
> you "go
> live" with it.
>
> Alternatively: If www.foo.com runs on an IP different from the  
> server's IP
> *and* it's the only site on that IP, then you can simply point your  
> browser to
> that IP and should be able to see the webpage.
>
> -- 
> With best regards
>
> Michael Stauber
>
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