DNS Redirect Question

How can I configure our internal DNS or some type of redirect to point an internal address of:

vtm.domain.com to http://vtm.domain.org:8080/qilan/Login.jsp

We had this working previously with a Mac and I'm trying to figure out how to do it with Windows.

Thanks,

T

 

Two options

DNS Server
Create an A Host record on your DNS (which I presume is managing the address space domain.com) for a host name vtm and with an IP address of the server hosting the vtm.domain.org web pages.

No server so you have to apply a solution to each client PC
Update the HOSTS file (search the Windows folder for it) and put in an entry for vtm.domain.org with a mapping to the IP address of the server hosting those web pages.

 

That's exactly what we have. We need to have the :8080/qilan/Login.jsp following the vtm to come up as well. Otherwise it doesn't take us to the correct site.

 

Can you confirm that you can actually access http://vtm.domain.org:8080/qilan/Login.jsp from your network and just need to use http://vtm.domain.com for some reason like matching a previous system or naming scheme!

If so you'll need to do it another way. Probably the easiest thing is to use a web server internally. You'll need to turn off the DNS/HOSTS stuff I described early - or rather, change them to point at the internal web server.

As for web server, you could do it with IIS, but personally I'd use Apache. You'll need to enable mod_proxy. Then code in http.conf like this should achieve what you want.

Code:

<VirtualHost vtm.domain.com:80>

    ServerAlias vtm.domain.com

    ProxyPass / http://vtm.domain.org:8080/qilan/ 
    ProxyPassReverse / http://vtm.domain.org:8080/qilan/
    ProxyPreserveHost on
  </VirtualHost>

That'll get you to vtm.domain.com/Login.jsp.