Diffirent mail accounts with same name in different domains (pointers)

[Softzilla]

A have create A.COM domain and B.COM pointer (alias for A.COM)
Now I need add diffirent email acoints: [email protected] and [email protected]...

b.com MUST be an alias! But DA show only domians (not pointers) in email dialogs...
So how can I solve this problem? Please, help!

 

[nobaloney]

When you use a domain pointer the whole domain gets pointed, including the email.

There's only one mailbox.

For example, if you create exmple.com first, and then point example.net to it, all mail sent to [email protected] will end up in the [email protected] mailbox.

Jeff

 

[HighFly]

For example, if you create exmple.com first, and then point example.net to it, all mail sent to [email protected] will end up in the [email protected] mailbox.

Hi,

Does that mean that you can't control any mail for the example.net domain when created as Domain Pointer (Alias)?

How can i fix it then? because one of my customers doesn't want any mail from the domain example.net anylonger. Do i have to delete the domain-pointer and create a separate 'domain' beside example.com only for controlling the mail? and then setup a bounce on all mail for example.net?

 

[nobaloney]

An alias aliases everything; you don't have independent control.

If you create it as a pointer but not an alias you won't see the new sitename in your browser, and you won't have control over everything.

If you need to have control of the two separate sites but the same content then you should create an entirely new domain, and make a change to the DocumentRoot directory so the new site uses the same directory as the old. If you do that you may want to chattr the user-level httpd.conf file so DirectAdmin won't change it when you don't want it to.

Jeff

 

[joly]

Hello,

I have the same problem.
One solution to setup Drupal with multi-site, might be using an alias-domain-pointer.
But then you have no control over the email.

Is this a server problem, cause it is just not possible. Or is it due to DA?
Is it possible DA can make a new feature, to make this all possible?

Greetz, Joly

 

[nobaloney]

One solution to setup Drupal with multi-site, might be using an alias-domain-pointer.
But then you have no control over the email.

My understanding is that Drupal requires it run on a specific site name. Is that not true?

Is this a server problem, cause it is just not possible. Or is it due to DA?
Is it possible DA can make a new feature, to make this all possible?

It's a design feature. In DirectAdmin an alias is a complete alias of an entire site. On the server level it simply creates symbolic links to the original files and directories.

A pointer which is NOT an alias points a different fqdn to the same site; the redirection actually happens in the site visitor's browser.

If you need a site to have the same contents of a different site but different emails, etc., then you should create the site as a separate site and create a redirect inside the new site, either using DirectAdmin, an .htaccess file, or an index.html file.

Jeff

 

[joly]

Hello,

Thanks for your reply.

Drupal uses its own domain-system.

Direct admin does:
/home/user/domains/<some.domain.com>
/home/user/domains/<other.domain.com>

Where drupal needs the different domains inside the www-root (i hate this unsafe construction)
... public_html/drupal/sites/<some.domain.com>

This is just not possible in direct-admin

An alias can be used as an workaround. But then the alias has no own popbox

Subdomains are no solution, cause drupal-multisite can be used for different customers/sites.

Greetz, Joly

 

[daveyw]

It's your own choice where you upload Drupal. I have it working with /home/<username>/domains/<domain.tld>/public_html