DNS entry

[Etogo]

Hi All,

I'm not sure if I'm in the right forum here but I'm hoping I am. Here's what I'm having problems with:

I would like users to be able to type a url of my choice (ex: http:\\myportal) and be redirected automatically to another url (ex:

http://server.example.ca:6768/tls/portal/PORTAL.wwsec_app_priv.lo........)

Anybody have an idea how I would do that. People keep pointing me to DNS but I'm not sure that's what I would use for something like this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks!

 

[ChrisAC]

You can point myportal.com to another domain/IP using CNAME;

myportal.com IN CNAME server.example.com

If you want to do a proper redirection to something like server.example.com/some/other/url/in/here then you cannot do this in DNS and you would use a http redirect script on the server that serves myportal.com.

Chris.

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[Etogo]

Thanks for the quick response!

I used CNAME to point to the proper url but now I still have one little problem. Users still have to type in a port # after myportal (ex:http:\\myportal:8888) in order to get the right page. Is there a way of avoiding this other than opening port 80 on the server?

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

 

[ChrisAC]

Again, DNS can only resolve the host name, not the full path to a directory or a port number.

Put a http redirect on the page to another page on that port.

Chris.

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