Virtual Hosting in 10 Minutes or Less

This method isn't perfect, but it is very easy to do.

It doesn't require recompiling Aolserver, or anything really that complicated, and lets you share an IP address among multiple servers. You don't even need another instance of Aolserver. Just the main server needs to have OpenACS on it.

The only downside is that you get the port numbers in the address.

Try it with http://rubick.com or http://www.rubick.com

You should be redirected to http://rubick.com:8002

Here's how it works:

you have a main server that does the redirects (this has to have OpenACS on it). Let's call this abc.com
go to /admin/
set up a package mounted at any old directory. Let's say /redirect
go to Host-Node Map on the admin page
set up def.com to go to the /redirect directory
unmount the application in the redirect directory
create a /redirect directory under /www/redirect
inside this directory, put an index.vuh file.

Copy this inside it:

ad_page_contract {
   redirect

   @author Jade Rubick
   @creation-date 2003-04-24

   Helpful .vuh example at
   http://www.arsdigita.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=000JTn
} {
}

set path [ad_return_url]

set page_loc "http://rubick.com:8002$path"

set page "<html><title>Redirecting to Rubick</title><body>Moving to Rubick.com site<meta HTTP-EQUIV=\"REFRESH\" CONTENT=\"1;URL=$page_loc\"></html>"

ns_write $page

Substitute your port in for 8002.

One issue I had was getting www.rubick.com to work as well as rubick.com. The reason is you can't have two sites going to the same directory. To get around this, you'll have to create a redirect and redirect2 directory.

I wanted to use ad_returnredirect, but there is a bug in IE that prevents me from using it. Unfortunately, this means I have to slow down all users..

Virtual Hosting in 10 Minutes or Less

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