[muglo] Re: muglo Digest V6 #205 Re: MUGLO

On 15-Oct-06, at 5:56 PM, Eric D wrote:
>
> It seems like you're (Tee) having Freeweb taking care of DNS  
> services for muglo.org.

Yes, they were offering free initial registration & hosting, which I  
took advantage of.
>
> Depending on the destination URL/server/IP address, it is possible  
> to use (1) Aliases (aka CNAME entries), (2) WebForwards, or (3) IP  
> addresses (A records).

This is where I am lost, never having done such things.
>
> Muglo.org appears to point to an IP address (A record) which means  
> certain things must be configured server-side for the web site to  
> be served up. I suspect those things _are_ configured properly  
> which means you whoever is taking care of the web server needs to  
> figure out what file is being served up.
>
> I could be as simple a case of index.htm vs. index.html.

Which questions I asked (how) and never got a reply from Freeweb
>
> The "welcome new user" page I receive when I go to http:// 
> www.muglo.org refers to setting up index.htm whilst a visit to  
> http://www.freewebs.com/muglo serves up an index.html page (you can  
> discover this by explicitly visiting ./index.html and ./index.htm  
> -- index.htm serves up a page not found error).

Ditto above.
>
> What's happening is that FreeWeb's DNS servers are [probably]  
> pointing to a specific IP address and the web server at that IP  
> address is directed to serve a specific directory, dependent on the  
> domain name that is being used (you can host many domain names at  
> one server this way... there are two ways (that I'm familiar with)  
> to host multiple domains at one server).
>
> Figuring out what directory that redirect is going to will solve  
> the www.muglo.org myster (provided it's not as simply as index.htm  
> vs. index.html).
>
> Question: why isn't www.muglo.org included in the .sig for the  
> mailing list? Is there a requirement that only freeweb stuff be  
> included in the .sig since freeweb is hosting the list?

Whatever that means.
> No need to get your knickers in a knot (or whatever the saying is).  
> I'm pleasantly surprised to learn that MUGLO is no longer paying  
> for web hosting (though, I am surprised to learn that MUGLO was  
> paying bank fees).

I appreciate the above explanations, although don't really understand  
a word of it. All the regular Banks charge for a bank account and  
wanted to charge more to Muglo as they consider us a business; most  
Hosters do too. I had to argue every year with London Webmasters to  
reduce our fees from $308.16 to $109.12.
PC Financial only offer personal accounts, but I got over that by  
making opening a "Muglo Tee Cashmore" account. No more $5 a month  
service charge, even when I only wrote 1-2 cheques a year!
TTFN,
TeeC

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