Re: [Debian-sf-users] DNS Configuration for debian-sf

[Arnar Birgisson]

I'm not sure about which DNS servers support this, but if your ISP is running 
bind9 you can see if the will register the entry "*.sourceforge.domainname.com" 
and "cvs.*.sourceforge.domainname.com". They should both point to your 
sourceforge machine (or be a CNAME for another name pointing to it). Any DNS 
requests for <whatever>.sourceforge.domainname.com or 
cvs.<whatever>.sourceforge.domainname.com will be given the IP address of your 
box and then it's up to apache vhosts configuration to select the correct 
directory to serve files from. That way, when setting up a 
somegroup.sourceforge.domainname.com website the only thing you have to do (or 
make sure is done by sourceforge crontab entries) is to create the relevant 
directory on your machine and acrabadabra, the website is ready.

Arnar
 

>>> Seetal Patel <address@hidden> 11/13/02 14:16 PM >>>
Hello,
 
Pardon me for if this post is not relevant to this group. I am newbie to
Sourceforge and would greatly appreciate some help with an issue I am
having.
 
We currently have deployed  Sourceforge 2.5-33 on fresh install of Woody.
The install itself went very smoothly, but I having some trouble getting my
head around a DNS issue we having.
 
Every time a new project is registered on the site a new domain entry is
created and our DNS server is hosted externally by our ISP, hence is there
way to force Sourceforge to not create new DNS entries for new project. For
example:
 
Our Source server name = sfserver.domainname.com
 
If we register a new project called "test1" then the fully qualified DNS
name for the project homepage would be: test1.sfserver.domainname.com.
Obviously this a bit inconvenient as every time a new project gets created
we have to request our ISP to add the new entry to DNS hosts file. 
 
Browsing through other Sourceforge deployments across the web, I see that
most of them do not create a new DNS  entry per project but  instead append
projectname as a directory on the server e.g. sfserver.domainname.com/test1
instead of test1.sfserver.domainname.com
 
I would like to know how to configure this.
 
Thanks in advance.
 
 
Seetal R Patel | Systems Administration Manager 
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