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26 February, 2007 04:26

It has been a busy night for me indeed.  My mission was to enable LifeType's BLOG sub-domains.

I thought this was going to be an easy step with GoDaddy's DNS utilities.  However, I quickly realized that I was unable to create a wildcard A name record nor an alias.  Frustrated, and sure as hell I could do it, I called customer support.

The representative had to call a different level support guru.  When he got back to me, he said he would make the changes while I was on the phone.  He failed, trying everything I already did.  He was back on the phone with the guru's and was then told that I would need a virtual or dedicated server package.  Obviously bumbed out at this, I said thank you, but by.   This after he told me if I were to purchase these services, tech support would not help with setup, but hinted that it is possible with the user's available tools.

Playing with the A records a bit, I realized that I could assign *.mypew.com and a private IP.  Before this I was using just (*) and the shared IP, hoping it would resolve correctly.

Let me mention before I go on..  I tried playing with the .htaccess files trying to change some Apache site variables, but they all failed miserably making my sight inaccessible.

Now all I needed was a dedicated IP.  This costs just a couple dollars a month, and worth it if you need some major DNS tweaks.  So far it has been fun.

So I created the record: *.myspew.com ip.ip.ip.ip  Look it up yourself, if you wish.

I then proceeded to my .htaccess file to insert some nasty redirections and alias information.  However, I found none of these changes were needed so I later removed the messy declarations.

I changed a few settings in LifeType, and WALA!  The 3rd level domains are now the BLOG owner's user name.  All is working great.

Why did I do this?  I figured if any friends, or friends of the friends of mine reading this wants a BLOG, it might be available to them.  Hint Hint, drop me an e-mail if you want a BLOG on this domain.  This goes for anyone on the EINSTEIN@HOME FreeBSD team also. 

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Main Entry: spew
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English spIwan; akin to Old High German spIwan to spit, Latin spuere, Greek ptyein intransitive verb
1 : VOMIT
2 : to come forth in a flood or gush
3 : to ooze out as if under pressure : EXUDE transitive verb
1 : VOMIT
2 : to send or cast forth with vigor or violence or in great quantity -- often used with out - spew-er noun
-- Merriam-Webster

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