[crystalthunder]

Now that my server is in full swing, I have a DNS server pointing two domain names to the same machine. What is the best way to direct each domain name to a given directory on my server?

[kidtexas]

I assume you mean web serving. Setup a virtual server in Apache. I would check Apache pages on the web, but it goes something like this in the /etc/httpd/httpd.conf file. Just uncomment (remove the #) in front of the NameVirtualHost * line, and then reproduce (without #'s) <VirtualHost *> block.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1"face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial">code:</font><HR><pre><font size=1 face=courier> #
# Use name-based virtual hosting.
#
NameVirtualHost *

#
# VirtualHost example:
# Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container.
# The first VirtualHost section is used for requests without a known
# server name.
#
#&lt;VirtualHost *&gt;
# #ServerAdmin [email protected]
# DocumentRoot /www/docs/dummy-host.example.com
# #ServerName <A HREF=<font color = red>"http:<font color = brown>//www.example.com"</font> TARGET=_blank>www.example.com</A> </font>
# ErrorLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log
# CustomLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common
#&lt;/VirtualHost&gt; </font>[/code]

Mine looks something like this:

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1"face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial">code:</font><HR><pre><font size=1 face=courier>
&lt;VirtualHost *&gt;
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot /Library/WebServer/folder
ServerName your.domainname.com
&lt;/VirtualHost&gt; </font>[/code]

[crystalthunder]

Ok. Thank you very much! I knew it had something to do w/ virtual hosts, and you explained it perfectly to me. I'll try it out first thing tomorrow!

[crystalthunder]

BTW, you seem pretty experienced in the httpd.conf file. You wouldn't happen to add another default directory page would you? I'm almost posotive that isn't the correct term for what I want, but I am talking about whenever you access a directory from the web, the server goes to the index.html or index.htm. How do I add, for example, index.php? What I mean is how can I make it so when I go into a directory how can I make the server open the index.php file instead of just list the directory? Thank you again!

[prolix]

i took this from the config on my linux box, but it should be hte same in osX

# DirectoryIndex: Name of the file or files to use as a pre-written HTML
# directory index. Separate multiple entries with spaces.
#
&lt;IfModule mod_dir.c&gt;
DirectoryIndex default.htm index.html index.htm index.shtml index.php index.php4 index.php3 index.phtml index.cgi
&lt;/IfModule&gt;
#

just add whatever ones you want and restart apache and you're good to go

[mftalon]

That is correct however that I found out after a little frustration that the macosxserver.conf file overrides the directory index settings of the httpd.conf file.

So I added it to both just to be safe.

[crystalthunder]

Thanks!