Forword to an ip instead of a web page

[penth]

for 1and 1 domain is there a way to forward the subdomain to an external ip like the yahoo server does by editing it's a-record? like apointing an destination and a sourse for example if i wish to apoint server1.myweb.com port 1000 because the port isn't 80 so even by using the php or http worford method it won't work. but if there is a way to directly forward a domain/subdmain directed to an external ip? thanks in advance.

[eWebtricity]

Are you using the 1and1 DNS control panel for managing your domains? If so I don't think it can be done, which is one of the reasons we lost interest in using them for domain name management/registration.

[penth]

:( but isn't there any possible script that can be placed, in order to accomplishing this? such as the header function of php that forwards to a dir but http, ftp or such must be placed or else it will become an "child url" that pasted after the current location where the file is placed. wat if i wish to forward to 100 instead of 80 or 21?

[Highland]

I don't see any reason why using the header function wouldn't work
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location:http://www.domain.com:100");

[penth]

because the port 100 isn't http and it's some kind of customed servers such as voice server game server or that it had to be connected using specific application.

[Highland]

Well you could manually add your httpd.conf for that domain and tell Apache to listen on port 100. As to my code, that :100 tells your browser to contact port 100

[penth]

but I am not going to use a browser, it's a program such as the aim icq or msn messenger that we'r all using to connect, will that work?

[Highland]

You're going to have to be more specific as to what you're doing. I can't think of any reason why an IM program would need to connect to a web server.

[penth]

it's not connecting to a web server. it's like this, domain.com is a 1and1 domain and are used as any regular domain, but I wish to develop my own software wich works simular way as aim or a teamspeak/ventrilo server that connects to a separate server, it can be a dedicated test server at my home. so i'll do mysoftarehost.domain.com:100 to point to my own server wich are a server side of this software,(it really don't matter wat it is, it can be a web based game that i've developed) so that the client can use this mysoftarehost.domain.com:100 go point to my ip:100 instead of a need to type in the ip. just to hide the ip and to be easier to remember for the client.

[eWebtricity]

A meta refresh tag would also forward the request to anywhere you want

[skunkboy]

You could possibly use the following; in variation for what you're trying to do.

In short, the following code with check for a file between two locations. If it doesn't exist at the first location, it will try the second before prompting a 404. I used to use this back with my old host. I pushed past their 5gb of space and, well, ended up hosting some of the site on my own server at home till I ended up moving to a dedicated box with 1and1.


# This first rule finishes redirect process right away for file types not concerned.
Rewriterule !^.*\.(html?|jpg)$ - [L]

# 2nd rule finishes redirect process right away for existing files.
RewriteCond /primary/htdocs%{REQUEST_URI} -f
Rewriterule ^.*\.(jpg)$ - [L]

# Among the files not on the server, send .jpg to other server
RewriteCond /primary/htdocs/%{REQUEST_URI} \.jpg$
RewriteRule ^(.+\.jpg)$ http://secondary.net/$1 [L]