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Special Forums IP Networking how domain name reg works Post 302146100 by Smiling Dragon on Sunday 18th of November 2007 05:57:55 PM

11-18-2007

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The server name and server domain is not very important as far as your webserver is concerned. You should however have your hostname set to something like 'myname' and domainname set to something like 'mydomain.com' - ie it forms 'myname.mydomain.com'. Don't include the hostname in the domainname.
I'd advise against calling your entire server 'www'.

The name to respond to (ie www.whatever.com) is set in your apache config file.
If a web request arrives directed to that name, apache will respond. This doesn't have to (and usually shouldn't) match your hostname.

You will need your ISP to assign you a static IP or find a way to dynamically update whatever DNS server you are using to provide lookups for your domain.

The domain entry has a couple of name servers set in it. If you are on dynamic IP, that can't be something within the dynamic range (no-ip and zoneedit can probably help you out with that). People looking for your website will lookup your domain name and get sent to the name server assigned to it. It then hands back the relevant IP address (which will be the IP your ISP has given you).
The web browser then goes to that IP, and asks for a webpage for the name it used (eg www.whatever.com'). Provided your router is redirecting traffic that arrives on port 80 to your server and server is running a webserver, it will respond. If the name used (eg www.whatever.com) matches the config file, the webserver will hand back something useful.

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disco

disco(1)						      General Commands Manual							  disco(1)

NAME

       disco - Mono's Web Service Discovery Tool

SYNOPSIS

       disco [options] url

DESCRIPTION

       disco is a tool for discovering web services and for retireving the documents that describe those services.

       url is the location of a DISCO document, which includes a list of WSDL documents, XML schemas and references to other DISCO documents.

       disco downloads the DISCO document and all referenced documents (unless the -nosave option is specified), and saves them to disk.

OPTIONS

       The following options are available:

       -nologo
	      Supress the startup logo.

       -nosave
	      Do not save the discovered documents to disk. The default is to save the documents.

       -o:directory , -out:directory
	      The directory where to save the discovered documents.  By default, documents are saved in the current directory.

       -u:username , -user:username
	      The user name to use when connecting to the server.

       -p:password , -password:password
	      The password to use when connecting to the server.

       -d:domain , -domain:domain
	      The domain to use when connecting to the server.

       -proxy:url
	      The url of the proxy server to use for http requests.

       -proxyusername:username
	      The user name to use when connecting to the proxy.

       -proxypassword:password
	      The password to use when connecting to the proxy.

       -proxydomain:domain
	      The domain to use when connecting to the proxy.

AUTHORS

       Lluis Sanchez Gual (lluis@ximian.com)

LICENSE

       disco is released under the terms of the GNU GPL.

SEE ALSO

       wsdl(1), soapsuds(1), mono(1), mcs(1)

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