Ory, On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Ory Okolloh <ookolloh@gmail.com> wrote:
Andrew, how are people supposed to remember this address? http://www.elimuportal.net/?and
We don't need memory any more now that we have google ;-)
I'm presuming that the correct address should actually be elimuportal.net and not the re-direct you sent (which still has the spelling errors etc0
www seems to be than canonical url, but elimuportal.net should also resolve. Both have DNS entries pointing to the same IP: ; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> @ns3.gkg.net www.elimuportal.net ANY ; (1 server found) ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 1094 ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.elimuportal.net. IN ANY ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.elimuportal.net. 3600 IN A 41.215.48.187 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: elimuportal.net. 86400 IN NS ns3.gkg.net. elimuportal.net. 86400 IN NS ns4.gkg.net. ;; Query time: 1265 msec ;; SERVER: 208.180.24.30#53(208.180.24.30) ;; WHEN: Sat Sep 10 15:40:01 2011 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 93 ; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> @ns3.gkg.net elimuportal.net ANY ; (1 server found) ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 311 ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;elimuportal.net. IN ANY ;; ANSWER SECTION: elimuportal.net. 86400 IN SOA ns3.gkg.net. bksang.elimuportal.net. 1309453589 28800 7200 604800 7200 elimuportal.net. 86400 IN NS ns3.gkg.net. elimuportal.net. 86400 IN NS ns4.gkg.net. elimuportal.net. 3600 IN A 41.215.48.187 ;; Query time: 593 msec ;; SERVER: 208.180.24.30#53(208.180.24.30) ;; WHEN: Sat Sep 10 15:52:33 2011 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 132 I see the content using that IP. It seems that then all that is needed is an alias in Apache httpd.conf ServerName www.example.com ServerAlias example.com I have bcced the admin found in the SOA of the DNS. Regards, McTim