On Saturday, February 21, 2009 at 0:31, mi...@acmeps.com wrote: > This is actually off topic for BIND-users...
> hongyi.z...@gmail.com wrote: >> On Friday, February 20, 2009 at 19:51, serge.fonvi...@gmail.com wrote: >>> Hi, >> >>> Is it possible to set a ddns hostname, say through >>> http://www.changeip.net/ , without using *some_domain* itself, to >>> access this file? >> >>> Not entirely sure what you are actually trying to achieve. >>> Could you provide a concrete example of the situations you are trying to >>> achieve? >> >> Let me give an example to illustrate my problem: >> >> In the following url, the prola.aps.org is a name-based virtual host: >> >> http://prola.aps.org/pdf/PRB/v1/i1/p1_1 >> >> On the other hand, my institute has subscribed to prola and many other >> journals, so I want to use some self-made and easy-to-memory hostnames for >> each of them. For example, I want to use the following url to access >> the above one: >> >> http://myprola.myddns.org/pdf/PRB/v1/i1/p1_1 > I fail to see how the later is more "easy-to-memory" than the former, but... I just take one for example, in my case, I've dozens of such hostnames and, if can, I'll make all of them have the same latter part, i.e., .myddns.org, thus "easy-to-memory". >> >> Is this possible? >> > Generally, no. Virtual hosting involves setting, in almost all cases, a > unique document root for each virtual host. If you reference a file or > location via a URI that uses a different hostname, then it either > matches a different virtual host, or matches the default virtual host, > but in either case the document root is almost certainly different, and > thus the relative path (/pdf/PRB/v1/i1/P1_1 in your case) almost certain > does not translate to the correct absolute path to get the right file or > get you to the right generator, whatever the location references and/or > triggers to send back content. > You *must* reference the location using the same URI if you expect to > see the same expected results. Thanks for your detailed explanations. Another issue: what do you mean by saying URI? What's the differences between URI and URL? > Regards, > Mike > PS: There are other maintenance problems with your approach too, but What for example? > you avoid those by just not even trying to do what you asked. Regards, -- Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.z...@gmail.com> Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences GnuPG DSA: 0xD108493 2009-2-21 _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
