I’ve just setup a serveralias for one of my domains on my PLesk managed server. e.g. example.co.uk aliases to example.com
To do this properly, you need to add the lines
ServerAlias www.example.co.uk
ServerAlias example.co.uk
to /home/httpd/vhosts/example.com/conf/vhost.conf
Then
# /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng –reconfigure-vhost –vhost-name=example.com
That should sort http stuff… you also need to edit some qmail files for mail to work also.
add example.co.uk to this file
/var/qmail/control/rcpthosts
and add example.co.uk: to this file where is the suffix of the example.com domain
/var/qmail/control/virtualdomains
Then stop and start qmail and pop/imap either using the control panel, or
service qmail stop
service qmail start
Sorted..
Here’s the content and links that helped me with this…
SWSoft.com KB article 41 894
SWSoft.com forum thread 22992
Stored below in case stuff disappears…
*** edit
I’ve since discovered that you could well need a symlink for your alias domain pointing to the primary domain in /var/qmail/mailnames to get email addresses on the alias domain working as well as on the primary.
ln -s /var/qmail/mailnames/example.com /var/qmail/mailnames/example.co.uk
*** edit end
Here is how I do it.
BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP
I am not responsible for any problems that may arise from following these instructions. I am not an expert, but hey it works for me. Please let me know if there are any security issues as I am paranoid. Also does anyone know if these files get overwritten with a Plesk or software upgrade.
pico -w /home/httpd/vhosts/[domain.com]/conf/vhost.conf
add ServerAlias domain.net
run update command
/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng –reconfigure-vhost –vhost-name=domain.com
pico -w /var/named/run-root/etc/named.conf
add new zone for domain.net (easiest way is to copy zone for domain.com and replace all refs .com to .net)
restart named
service named restart
FOR EMAIL
either add domain.net to rcpthosts or add to morercpthosts
pico -w /var/qmail/control/morercpthosts
add domain.net
rebuild qmail database
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-newmrh
add domain.net to virtualdomains to receive email for domain.net through domain.com
pico -w /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains
add domain.net:11 (where number is the same as that for domain.com)
if you wish to reject bounced messages for domain.net you need to edit your .qmail-default for that domain.
cd /var/qmail/mailnames
add domain.net folder – check permissions/owner
add .qmail-default file
pico .qmail-default
add following line
|forward ${DEFAULT}@domain.com
add domain.net to rejection list
pico -w /var/qmail/control/rejectnonexist
add domain.net
service qmail restart
DONE
if you do not add a .qmail-default file but add domain.net to rejectnonexist then all email for domain.net will bounce.
Now if you have me@domain.com mailbox all mail to me@domain.net will go into that box. You should be able to read mail using either domain.com or domain.net mail addresses. Remember they are one in the same.
Roo
