Virtual Sites on Cobalt Raq Server

[mwildin1]

Hi, I am new to Cobalt and am having some trouble setting up a cobalt server I required last week. It is a Raq3 running Raq550 OS and so far I have figured out how to wipe the box, restore the OS from CD and perform backups. I am now trying to configure the server to host sites. I have a fixed IP address from my ISP which I have setup on a netgear ADSL router/modem.

Fixed IP from ISP = 81.174.xxx.xxx

I have set my router up with this static IP and enabled port forwarding to all requests go to the Cobalt server. The details are as follows:

GATEWAY on home LAN = 192.168.x.x
PC on home LAN = 192.168.x.x
cOBALT on home LAN = 192.168.x.x

I also have three domain names registered with DomainNamesGB which have online control panels which enable me to change the web forwarding addresses and Name Server settings for each of them. For this question let's say they are called

http://WWW WEBSITE1

COM

http://WWW WEBSITE2

COM

http://WWW WEBSITE3

COM

I have set up

http://www.website1.com

to forward to 81.174.xxx.xxx . When I connect to the internet through a dial up account seperate to my LAN I can type

http://www.website1.com

in the browser and be taken straight to the cobalt login screen. This tells me my router settings are working okay.

The problem starts here. I do not know how to setup virtual sites on the cobalt server. I created two virtual sites on the cobalt server (

http://www website2

com and

http://www website2

com to mach the domain names) and gave thenm addresses 192.168.x.x and 192.168.x.x

Is this correct or should I have gave them both an address of 192.168.x.x?


I FTP'D to the cobalt server with the admin acount and I can see the two web sites have been created but do not know how to direct the two domain names to these two virtual sites. I am sure it is a DNS problem but do not know what to enter in the Cobalt Servers TCP/IP settings for Host name and DNS Server, should this be the domain name and DNS server of my fixed IP?

Can anyone please help, after three days of trying my eyes are starting to hurt....

Any help / info is appreciated.

 

[mwildin1]

update : Do I now need to perfom the following steps:

log into the cobalt server and go to Network Services --> DNS to enable DNS Server.

Log into the online control panel for

http://www.website2.com/www.website3.com

and forward both to 81.174.159.97 as well as adding this address in the DNS settings (as the cobalt server will now be acting as the DNS server) or do I leave the web forwarding blank?

 

[mwildin1]

Just to let you know I have setup A and MX records for both domain names. Under 'Server Management --> Network Services --> DNS' I added four recods:

MX Records

mail.website2.com forward 192.168.0.100
mail.website3.com forward 192.168.0.101

A Records

http://www.website2.com

forward 192.168.0.100

http://www.website3.com

forward 192.168.0.101

When I type the addresses for either website in my browser I get directed to the cobalt login screen (as if I had just typed in the router IP)