need webmail.domain.com --> domain.com/webmail

[ngoyette]

Originally Posted by eko_taas

As I have understood (and done) there is no need to do anything on DNS-side on your org. need... At least on my system, where only one server ("server1") in ISPConfig-system.

Actually I have had no need to change DNS-settings till today (several sites, domains pointing to same IP-address).

As newbee just happy as working w/o understanding on details

you mean that ispconfig is auto configuring dns with the alias?
because if x.domain.com is not registered in the dns nobody outside can ask for this subdomain " x " because it doesn't exist on the outside world ....its really weird..

[ngoyette]

even if i create any web site in the sites > Websites

and i got on the redirect tab , and do a redirect to google....

well it give me a "Welcome to your website!" on green text page... this make no senses at all...

i think something is broken on my ISPconfig ... how can i repair this?

[eko_taas]

Originally Posted by ngoyette

you mean that ispconfig is auto configuring dns with the alias?
because if x.domain.com is not registered in the dns nobody outside can ask for this subdomain " x " because it doesn't exist on the outside world ....its really weird..

I have several (testing) websites on my test-server (only sites created, no DNS changes):
example.com (pointing to my public IP)
www.example.com
ftp.example.com
Dyndns (updated by DynDNS client http://dyn.com/support/clients/linux/ )
abc.dyndns-ip.com

And when tested alias as told before, all w/o any manual changes on DNS (on terminal or ISPConfig) (as I can recall of ).

I made an other test (to point to outside world as well)
new alias: howto.example.com, rederect, http://www.howtoforge.com, None, active
wait for 1 min (for ISPConfig update) and Vola (works like a dream acc. to test...
http://howto.example.com or pure howto.example.com ==>> http://www.howtoforge.com/

Checked also that no new automarking ISPConfig DNS-records. Looks to me that not needed.

[ngoyette]

this make no sense ....

i tried CNAME:
webmail
lburgoyne.ca.

i tried A record:
webmail.lburgoyne.ca.
64.15.130.185

no change in problem..


then in the website i created aliasdomain:
parent website: lburgoyne.ca
webmail.lburgoyne.ca
L,R
http://www.google.ca
auto-subdomain none

also tried subdomain for a website ... doesn't work ..


now does this mean i will have to create a subdomain and add an .htaccess to the website for redirection?

[ngoyette]

funny thing is that when i edit :
/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/100-lburgoyne.ca.vhost

and add

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAlias webmail.*
RewriteEngine On
RewriteLog "/var/log/apache2/rewrite.log"
RewriteLogLevel 3
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^webmail\.(.+) [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://mail.%1/webmail/ [R=301,L]
</VirtualHost>

it works.....


so what is wrong with isp config???

[till]

The redirect that eko_taas described in this thread works fine, I use it on several servers. So there is nothing wrong with ispconfig. Maybe you did not wait until the changes were written to disk as you tested it or there was a typo in your settings.

What you did now is something different as you added a new wildcard vhost and not just a redirect, there are always a lot of ways to achieve a specific behaviour with apache rewrites and redirects. The only thing that you should change is that you add your new vhost in its own vhost file and not the file /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/100-lburgoyne.ca.vhost, as your current changes will get removed automatically from /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/100-lburgoyne.ca.vhost

[ngoyette]

Originally Posted by till

The redirect that eko_taas described in this thread works fine, I use it on several servers. So there is nothing wrong with ispconfig. Maybe you did not wait until the changes were written to disk as you tested it or there was a typo in your settings.

how much time should it take for change to be writen to disk?

i will give you access to admin on my ispconfig if you need to....... im pretty sure i followed instruction to the letter ..

[till]

Normally it takes about one minute.

I can check that on your server, but remote login support is not free. So if you like that one of your admins checks your system, please contact us here:

http://support.projektfarm.com/

[ngoyette]

i understand,

so

if i have : DNS :


and : ALIAS :


typing web.lburgoyne.ca should redirect me to http://mail.lburgoyne.ca/webmail right?


but i still get:

after 2 days... still...\



so is there something wrong in my config??

[eko_taas]

no need to edit your DNS as ISPConfig will do automatically (at least in my case).

If you delete all DNS settings (manually done by you), does it work (like in my case)