From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 19 22:22:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73C1037B404 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 22:22:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE4DB43E65 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 22:22:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfolkins@comcast.net) Disposition-notification-to: dfolkins@comcast.net Received: from groovy3xp (pcp01731796pcs.selrsv01.pa.comcast.net [68.83.131.193]) by mtaout05.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 13 2002)) with SMTP id <0H2Q00MXO1LME7@mtaout05.icomcast.net> for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 01:22:34 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 01:22:26 -0400 From: dfolkins Subject: Re: user.mydomain.com To: "Janine C.Buorditez" , questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <004c01c26065$b52c06c0$0a00a8c0@groovy3xp> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-priority: Normal References: <20020918144421.144412c8.johann@broadpark.no> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janine C.Buorditez" To: Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 8:44 AM Subject: user.mydomain.com > how is this created when adding a new user? > > are there any adduser scripts out there doing this automaticly as well as a > .htdocs instead of enteruser's public_html? hm, if you want to set up things like user.mydomain.com, my bet is you are going to have to involve your dns server for that. without an appropriate entry in a dns server, that domain name just isnt going to resolve to an ip. now, once you have the right dns stuff set up, i think the best way to point it to the user's web directory is through directives in apache config. for the virtualhost setup the best documentation source is apache.org itself. as to setting up dns, start with "man named", and you can probably find plenty of howtos online about how to set up dns. -- dfolkins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message