Reply to: Please explain CNAME to me

[Platypus]

Thanks, guys. A VPS sounds fun would would be more aggro for me in this case where I'm just trying to help a local business with their website. I'm not looking for a sysadmin job with them!

[stek]

You have to be careful tho, I got one to errr, route stuff through, didn't think it through, and due to errr, traffic my 7 Euro a month VPS cost me 200 Euro that month.

Forgot about the meagre bandwidth allowance...

[administrator]

Yeah got it a couple of years ago I think. It has 512MB RAM and can see you can get cheaper but it has 5 IP addresses so keeping hold of it

[Contreras]

What's a VPS ?

WsS. An internet hosted virtual machine with full admin access, a.k.a. 'root', to install whatever software you want and configure it how you want.

The VM is on shared hardware, but (unlike shared hosting) the VM itself is yours with its own IP address(es) and semi-guaranteed resources. VPSs are typically "unmanaged" which means it's your responsibility to administer the OS and installed packages, and fix stuff when it goes wrong. Cost from $15/yr. - $100/mo. depending upon CPU/memory/disk space/bandwidth.

I have one that costs me £3.50 per month for routing - erm, things - through

Wow that much, huh.

[administrator]

Aye, if you are only hosting a few little sites and want to learn some hackery then get a Low End Box:
uk – Low End Box

I have one that costs me £3.50 per month for routing - erm, things - through

[stek]

What's a VPS ?

Virtual Private Server I think - basically a VM on an Hypervisor in DC somewhere.....

[Platypus]

With a VPS you could do all the hackin' you like.

What's a VPS ?

[Contreras]

Easyspace ... they tell me they can't hack httpd.conf since that's under the control of the provisioning system. But they can set me up another 'zone' and will do the needful to get what I want working.

With a VPS you could do all the hackin' you like.

[Platypus]

Cool, now how are you managing the hosting? Do you have CPanel or something?

Easyspace ... they tell me they can't hack httpd.conf since that's under the control of the provisioning system. But they can set me up another 'zone' and will do the needful to get what I want working.

[vwdan]

Thanks, yes this confirms that it's the virtual host config that's at issue.

Cool, now how are you managing the hosting? Do you have CPanel or something?

[Platypus]

Ping www.mydomain.com and note the IP. Then ping banana.mydomain.com - if it's the same IP then DNS is fine and, as above, you need to sort the Virtual Host config.

Thanks, yes this confirms that it's the virtual host config that's at issue.

[vwdan]

Ping www.mydomain.com and note the IP. Then ping banana.mydomain.com - if it's the same IP then DNS is fine and, as above, you need to sort the Virtual Host config.

[darrylmg]

Are you sure you're pointing the CNAME correctly?
Check what www is pointing to and just setup banana the same.

[smatty]

I'd agree with Kirk, it will most likely already have a virtualhost directive pointing at www.mydomain.com. The problem is your browser is connecting to the server and asking for the page at banana.mydomain.com and the web server has no idea which of the virtual hosts that is.

Ask them to add a serveralias for banana.mydomain.com to your current virtual host.

[Platypus]

Maybe wait for DNS to propogate. Might be fairly quick nowadays tho...

Thanks, but that isn't it.