Domain Pointers

[blacknight]

I've already posted on how to emulate what Plesk and others call masked forwarding, in this thread.

That's the only way I know of doing it using DirectAdmin.

Jeff

That's a different concept entirely.

 

[davidb]

I think the point is being missed to some extent. The whole purpose of a control panel is so that the user can manage their own account. All we are really asking is for DA to change a few lines of code (surely not more than 20 or 30 total) to make this happen.

 

[rushost]

See here:

http://www.directadmin.com/features.php?id=460

But I think it should be not instead of pointers but as extra features
because is is 2 different options

And sometimes it should be privelege of admin (only) to modify ServerAlias in Admin Panel

 

[nobaloney]

I think the point is being missed to some extent.

I haven't missed the point at all, David. I'd welcome the feature.

But I'm not coding DirectAdmin.

So my only choice is to either stay silent or to point out how you can do it until DA staff add it.

Since I believe that's more helpful than staying silent, that's what I did.

Jeff

 

[blacknight]

I haven't missed the point at all, David. I'd welcome the feature.

But I'm not coding DirectAdmin.

So my only choice is to either stay silent or to point out how you can do it until DA staff add it.

Since I believe that's more helpful than staying silent, that's what I did.

Jeff

Aye, I just wish the people who were coding it would read this thread

 

[blacknight]

Well I for one am now happy

The domain alias/pointer/insert your term here option now works the way our users want it.

 

[Joe Noon]

A Possible Solution

After reading this long thread, I noticed similarities in what I was seeking. I need to be able to add domain B for the purpose of email, while having an existing domain (domain A) have a ServerAlias to domain B. This way, domain B functions fully in the control panel, while the web site portion of it is actually hosted on domain A.

Here is my proposed solution, please let me know if this covers all ends:

- Add domain B as normal to directadmin
- Have the ability to comment out domain B's <VirtualHost> block through the control panel.
- Add the ServerAlias to domain B in domain A's Domain Pointer section (the new 1.233 version that uses ServerAlias)

The thought here is, if you could comment out the <VirtualHost> block on domain B, it would still function for email, ftp, etc, but its httpd configuration would be handled by domain A.

This could be done manually, but Im not sure what would happen when changes were made to directadmin (would it rewrite the httpd config thus removing the commented lines?)


Maybe Im on to something?

 

[blacknight]

The latest version of DA includes a domain alias option for pointers, so it's pretty much covered.

 

[Joe Noon]

Yes, the version update takes away the need of adding the custom ServerAlias manually.

After thinking about my above solution, I think its really much simpler: Be able to create a domain that DOESNT have web.

This way the domain can be ServerAliased elsewhere, but still function fully.

As far as Im aware of, this is not possible as of now, correct?