Future i Information : Setting up a virtual domain

On Future i Information The domain should be registered, as described in Registering a domain in a gTLD, particularaly with domain DNS servers set to point at ns.future-i.net and ns2.future-i.net.

DNS

Add a new entry for your domain to /var/named/etc/bind/named.conf, in the standard configuration section. The entry will point at to the standard domain configuration file. If you require email only, use this entry
```
zone "domain.com" {
        type master;
        file "mail-only.std";
};
```
For mail and web at the domain root and at www.domain.com, your entry should look like this


zone "domain.com" {
        type master;
        file "future-i.std";
};

(As of July 2003 you can also use future-i-plus-dev.std to get example.com, www.example.com, dev.example.com and www.dev.example.com - handy for developing a service first. Note it drops the ftp entry in future-i.std, use future-i-plus-devftp.std if you need it.) -- ash

Restart BIND (the name daemon): run the command:

sudo /etc/init.d/named restart

Check there are no disturbing errors at the end of /var/log/messages , and that the command nslookup ongar-towers.com ns.future-i.net returns sensible results. When you have recieved notification of the change to seconly.rackspace.com, check the secondary DNS, by running nslookup ongar-towers.com seconly.rackspace.com

Note: If you update a zone entry to use a different file, you will need to update the serial number in that file to ensure that it is higher than the one in the other file (by convention use YYYYMMDDSS where SS is the number of updates on that date)! This is to ensure that the record gets updated on seconly.rackspace.com. This will actually update all domains using that file, so maybe a better approach is required.

Web

Decide on a one word short name for your service
run web-create short-name your.domain youruser you@foo.com as root to create your web root under /home/web/short-name/, following prompts to update Apache configuration and restart it
Check you can access your test file, by pointing a web browser at http://your.domain/

Email

Add an alias file in /etc/exim/aliases with the name of your domain. This is in standard alias format, but in addition you can specify regular expression matching of addresses.

For example:

bob: local-user-name
^regexp local-user-name
*: catchall-address

Tell Exim to re-read the configuration file: sudo /etc/rc.d/init.d/exim readconfig

For more information on setting up virtual mail users, see mail-users.