User Domain

[lisss001]

Would it bepossible to create a feature where members can point their domain to a forum ?

[Parth]

You would need to host your own nameserver. Unless you could point to your host's nameserver, I dunno if it would work or not. Better to wait until Derek gets here ;)

[Derek]

I'm not sure how that would work either, but I will try to find out how to do it. They might be able to just have their domain registrar redirect to the url of their forum.

[.Hybrid]

But that wouldn't have DNS. It would only cloak, I assume.

[NightStorm]

I think for something like this to work, you'd need to use domain redirection... something that is available directly from the Control Panels for systems like Plesk and cPanel.
Without having the nameservers for the domain pointing to wherever the DNS is going to be controlled, the domain won't do anything. And wherever the DNS Server (aka the nameservers) send the www queries, that is where any redirection changes need to be made.
In other words, it can be done, but it would have to be done at the user's end, and not at the forums (or nbs) end.

[Derek]

Yeah I'm not exactly sure how to make it work, so I will have to continue to look into ways of doing it.

Derek

[ForumZCLub]

You would need Static IP address for that on the server i think so

[Parth]

You would need Static IP address for that on the server i think soMost web hosting account control panel's (Plesk and cPanel *ones i know) show the IP address. I wouldn't think that would be an issue.

[ForumZCLub]

Most web hosting account control panel's (Plesk and cPanel *ones i know) show the IP address. I wouldn't think that would be an issue.


But its NOT STATIC IP THEN ALSO

BIG ISSUE

[Parth]

IPs on servers are usually static, because they run a mail server. Static meaning they don't change periodically.

[Derek]

Yes, most web hosts use static ips.

[NightStorm]

But most websites use shared IPs. But irregardless, somewhere along the way, an apache server has to intercept the domain request (which means that the domain has to be in the VirtualHost directive) and needs to know where to send it.
Unless nbs is given superuser priviledges, it will not be able to handle the actual redirection process of tld's to a subdirectory or a subdomain holding the custom forum. Among the things that would need to be changed would be named (DNS), the httpd config (VirtualHost Directive), and the restarting of Apache and named to load the changes.

Essentially, if a user wants to point their domain to a forum hosted by the nbs script, they will need to set up the redirection at their own end, or you will need to have access to the above things... usually requiring either a control panel like cPanel or Plesk, or root access to make the additions manually.