[BlueOnyx:24613] Re: Virtual Site question

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Rob,


> Like Gecko, I also have the issue that with my current DNS setup I can
> access www.rob-e.com,  but rob-e.com goes to onyx login page.

That indicates that the Virtual Site www.rob-e.com does not have the
"Web Server Alias" rob-e.com.

A Vsite has a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN). In your case that is
www.rob-e.com. But it can also have several "Web Server Aliases", which
are names that it also is reachable under.

So add rob-e.com to the "Web Server Aliases" of that Vsite and it'll work.

For Email there is a similar thing: "Email Server Aliases".

If a Vsite is named www.rob-e.com, then the email accounts for it are
(internally) reachable via <username>@www.rob-e.com - which isn't pretty.

If you add rob-e.com to the "Email Server Aliases", then you can also
email directly to <username>@rob-e.com - which in this context is what
you want.

For this to work you need to MX records, which should look like this:

www.rob-e.com 	 ---(MX Record)---> 	www.rob-e.com
rob-e.com 	 ---(MX Record)---> 	www.rob-e.com

How to set up DNS properly and the relationship between DNS and "Web
Server Aliases" and "Email Server Aliases" is explained in detail on
this page:

https://www.blueonyx.it/dns-for-email

> Questions:
> 1. Is there anything glaringly wrong with the way I am trying to do this?

Aside from the missing Web- and Email Server Aliases you seem to be on
the right path if you followed the DNS guide.

> 2. Is there a better recommendation for DNS services?

Not really. The guide is all you need.

> 3. Does this look like I can get email rob at rob-e.com to work?

Absolutely.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber