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Web hosted remotely with OWA hosted Locally? - 28.Jul.2005 7:11:00 PM

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I want to host mydomain.com on godaddy.com servers (ie web content) and host my exchange server locally. I believe I have my MX records configured corretly (mail.mydoamin.com) but i can't figure out get OWA (mydomain.com/exchange) forwarded to my local server. want to use something like webmail.mydomain.com and have it go to my local exchange server.

I believe this is two fold. I think i need to do something with my CNAME and change something in exchange so it recognizes webmail.mydomain.com as mydomain.com/exchange.

Cna this be done? does anyone have any ideas?

THank you ahead of time!

_PaGe1

[ July 28, 2005, 07:12 PM: Message edited by: PaGe1 ]

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RE: Web hosted remotely with OWA hosted Locally? - 28.Jul.2005 7:51:00 PM

underwarezs

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I think i get what you mean... and yes it is a 2 part process. Firstly, your local exchange server will need an external fully-qualified host name. I just had a look, and godaddy.com gives you "full dns control" over your domain, so basically you'll need to create a new "A record" (not CNAME, as they're just alias'). For the second part, you'll need to set up a site/host redirect.

Creating Host Name
For more information on how to create an A record, please see godaddy's support documentation. To create an A record, you'll need to specifiy an host name and the internet IP address of your local exchange server. For example:

Host: webmail.mydomain.com
IP: 61.235.154.105

This means, when ever anyone visits webmail.mydomain.com, all requests on that site are forwarded to the IP address that you've specified. If your exchange server doesn't have a static (external) ip address, you'll have to keep updating the A record when ever it changes.

Site/Host Redirect
create a sub-folder on your hosted site called mail (for example) so the reletive path is www.mydomain.com/mail

load up notepad, copy and paste the below code, and save the file as index.html

once you've done that, upload it to the mail folder. Thus, when a user visits www.mydomain.com/mail it'll redirect them to your local server.

code:

<HTML>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="0; URL=http://webmail.mydomain.com/exchange">
</HTML>

Im running a similar setup to the one listed above, except my websites hosted on my proxy server and exchange on a seperate box. I think thats what you meant in your question, but if you feel i've mis-understood, please say! [Smile]

UnderWareZs

[ July 28, 2005, 07:54 PM: Message edited by: UnderWareZs ]

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RE: Web hosted remotely with OWA hosted Locally? - 11.Aug.2005 1:37:00 AM

nyjetswin2005

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You need to create a A record not a CNAME record.
For example. You can use http://webamil.mydomain.com/exchange as the url for OWA. If you do this then you will have to ask GoDaddy to create a A record for webmail.mydomain.com and your need to give them the public static ip address you assigned for the web server where OWA is running. You also should get a SSL cert from GoDaddy with webmail.mydomain.com as domain address for your OWA SSL cert.

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RE: Web hosted remotely with OWA hosted Locally? - 11.Aug.2005 5:44:00 AM