Is it possible to set a ddns hostname to access a name-based virtual host?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <gnmihj$1761$1 at sf1.isc.org>, hongyi.zhao at gmail.com wrote:

> On Friday, February 20, 2009 at 22:15, serge.fonville at gmail.com wrote:
> > Let me give an example to illustrate my problem:
> 
> > In the following url, the prola.aps.org is a name-based  virtual host:
> 
> > http://prola.aps.org/pdf/PRB/v1/i1/p1_1
> 
> > On  the other hand, my institute has subscribed to prola and many other
> > journals, so I want to use some self-made and easy-to-memory hostnames for
> > each  of them.  For example, I want to use the following url to access
> > the above one:
> 
> > http://myprola.myddns.org/pdf/PRB/v1/i1/p1_1
> 
> > Is this possible?
> 
> > You can specify a domainalias for every virtualhost in the apache
> > configuration (other http servers should support similar functionality)
> 
> I cann't figure it out.  I only have a web
> client  such  as  ie  or firefox to access the above url?  Do you mean
> that I must setup a local webserver, say by using apache to do that thing?

The operators of the dynamic DNS service may offer an HTTP redirect 
service that does this for you.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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