Apache and DNS

saabir · #1 (**permalink**) 03-05-2004

Hi All
Say a customer owns a domain abc.com. The DNS records for abc.com are on DNS servers I do not own. However I own a web server and the customer would like to host his site on this server.

If I setup a Virtual Host container within Apache which contains the following for the ServerName and ServerAlias directives:

ServerName abc.com
ServerAlias www.abc.com

And the customer changes his A record with his DNS host to point to the IP address of my web server - will a user on the Internet typing http://www.abc.com into a browser be directed to the relevant docroot etc within my webserver? (after DNS propagation and obviously I have also setup the DocumentRoot directive).

I need to clarify this before I tell the customer to change his DNS, only to find it doesn't work, and for his website to be down for a couple of days.

Thanks very much.

saabir · #2 (**permalink**) 03-07-2004

For the record, this will work. I have now tested it.

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