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Purpose of each step - Verification (1 post)

  1. Cruz
    Member
    Posted 18 years ago #

    Hi,

    I like to understand the purpose for each step and what needs to be done in plain English. Can you please see whether what I am writing is correct?

    1. Add wild card for the domain name from the domain registrar.
    *Purpose: Point all subdomains to the server and avoid undefined subdomains from resolving to the server.
    *To do: Add *.example.com to the current DNS record. Making the new DNS record looks like something below:

    ns1.example.com
    ns2.example.com
    *.example.com

    2. Add server alias for the domain name.
    * Purpose: Make the server recognize the subdomains.
    * To do: 1) Modify the httpd.conf file, or
    2) Add example.com as the parked domain via
    Cpanel control panel.

    3. AllowOverride modification
    * Purpose: Allows the server to read .htaccess file and then control documents type. (I still don't understand what this do. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/core.html#allowoverride)
    * To do: Modify "AllowOverride None" to "AllowOverride FileInfo" on httpd.conf.

    Cruz

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