Questions tagged [alias]
In computer sciences, an alias is a name which usually designates an already-named reference.
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CNAME from 1 subdomain to another subdomain
I have added a CNAME from order.checkoutchiangmai.com to restaurant1.acemsweb.com. The result I have is "Apache is functioning normally" when I open order.checkoutchiangmai.com. I am unsure why the ...
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CNAME is not acting as an Alias on Cloudflare
I would like to display the same content of: example.com if someone visits example.net
I researched and it seems to be possible by simply setting up a CNAME record on example.net that is pointing to ...
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Openldap insert memberuid in a aliased posix group
I've created an alias ("test-ALIAS") to a posix group. The search on the alias is ok but i need to insert and delete memberuid to the original group via alias. I use ldapmodify with an .ldif file for ...
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How do CNAME Flattening, ANAME or ALIAS records work? [closed]
I found explanations by Cloudflare and DNS Made Easy quite vague on the implementation of these records - it was something about IP address caching.
Do those records only retrieve A and AAAA records ...
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Postfix forward mails to external domains as (inline) bounce
My problem: I own a postfix server with several Aliases on it. For example:
info@my.tld => abc@gmail.com
If I now send a email from def@gmail.com to info@my.tld it get's forwarded to abc@gmail.com
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Masking URL in Address Bar in IIS
I am not an expert in IIS and would really appreciate your help if this is something that can easily be resolved.
We have a web server on an intranet domain to which users are directed by the DNS ...
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apache intermitently fails to resolve Alias directive
we have a set up where main site (wordpress) is running on the server, all additional mini sites that should appear within the main one, but not served by wordpress are configured as Alias'es:
Alias "...
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How to create an alias that uses a value and grep on a remote server?
I need help, I can't create an alias with a variable to grep a file on a remote server.
I have tried:
alias searchword="ssh -t user@server "grep -i \"$1\" /root/file.txt\""
alias search="ssh -t ...
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Postfix header conditional rewrite
in my mail server I have a mailbox me@mrtsolutions.it and an alias ciao@mrtsolutions.it which send all to me@gmail.com.
Now when I send from user@gmail.com an email to ciao@mrtsolutions.it, I receive ...
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How to use Veeam to recover locally-hosted Exchange mailbox alias to implement on Exchange Online
I've inherited an IT department after just 1 year in it, during which the 30-year sole-IT person retired, and his replacement, who hired me, left for a remote position. Shortly before he left, Veeam ...
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Create custom sub-command for Docker
For Git user can create alias
git config --global alias.co checkout
git co master
If Git cannot find build-in subcommand it looks for git-SUBCOMMAND executable in PATH
echo -e '!/bin/bash\necho I ...
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Should I set up my Postfix send-only server to send as a subdomain?
Scenario:
I own the domain example.com.
I am signed up with an email provider, and configured my account as a catchall for *@example.com. I use the email dude@example.com.
I have a VPS running Ubuntu ...
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Postfix How to send mail in behalf of an alias
I'm using postfix as a mail relay in a very simple setup, mostly with aliases, forwarding mails to GMail.
My main goal with this is to minimize the need for mailboxes on my server.
Let's assume I ...
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Replace explicit `virtual_alias_domains` by domains in `virtual_alias_maps`
I have a working Postfix config with some local mailboxes, some local aliases and a handful of purely virtual alias domains. Because I find it tedious to add all to virtual_alias_domains I'm asking: ...
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How to check which DNS Alias is used to access the server?
I have a host with a database installed on it.
In order to access the database, the clients use a DNS Alias (CNAME) - AliasOne - and the database port.
DNS Aliases are managed by colleagues in ...
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Spoofing/Spam received from GSuite alias accounts
The company currently have 2 domains registered: "dom1.com" and "dom1.com.ex". "dom1.com" is hosted and is the main domain associated on our GSuite account to create user accounts to send mails, "dom1....
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Source bash.rc / aliasses from external file (LEMP)
I'm running several LEMP VMs with mostly identical setups. Each of these VMs has a /etc/profile.d/00-aliases.sh containing a bunch of aliasses and functions to run on the server.
Now, whenever I make ...
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Postfix Alias issues
I am having an issue with setting up an alias "support-notify" in Postfix.
Recipient address rejected: Access denied;
I am running Postfix with OpenDKIM, OpenDMARC, Policyd-SPF, and Dovecot on ...
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Set alias from sh script in ESXi 6
I have created a simple script to setup an alias on an ESXi 6.7 host:
#!/bin/sh
alias ll="ls -la"
echo "Profile done"
When I run the script I see the echo'd message on screen, but the alias is not ...
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Postfix with external alias rejected
i have a problem with external aliases on my server. There are aliases for my users so they can retrieve mails on their personal mailaccount. For example:
user1@mydomain.com user1 user1@gmail.com
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Multiple Domain Names. Alias not Redirection
I need to get my new domain for example.net to not only respond to the same content as I have for the existing example.com, but I need the user to actually still only see example.net when they get to ...
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Unable to load PHP files from second server directory
My server has a root directory which is /home/forge/example.com/current/ionic/www and a secondary API PHP directory, located /home/forge/example.com/current/public.
When the user browses to example....
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Postfix virtual_alias_maps won't work
I have the following entry in virtual_alias_maps:
ttt@works-organizer.ch: tibor.nagy@works-organizer.ch
However if I send an email to ttt@works-organizer.ch, it fails with User unknown in virtual ...
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Why isn't my Nginx alias directive working?
I'm using Nginx on CentOS 7 with Ruby on Rails / Puma. I would like for certain file paths to be skipped by RoR and be served directly by Nginx. I created this in my "server" block for my site
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Windows server, temporary alias name, only visible from one machine
Two weeks ago our IT department migrated a huge network folder from an older server to a newer one. For example, the older folder was reachable under
\\oldserver\ourfolder
and the new one under
\\...
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What is an Amazon Route53 “Alias” DNS record?
AWS Route53 Alias value
Consider a domain registered on AWS Route53. HTTP requests to this domain should be served from a AWS CloudFront CDN distribution. In order to achieve this, an alias A record ...
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Apache alias a short extensionless symbol to a file
I would like to have a short url like:
https://myDomain/essr
to evaluate to:
https://myDomain/dir1/dir2/myFile.html
I've been trying to use alias in my apache config but I haven't been able to ...
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NGINX PHP FastCGI multiple locations (alias) issue
First time posting and very new to all this - was advised to try here over stack overflow and have read a few different things linked but just cannot get my head around it. After alot of trial and ...
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NGINX Remove index.php in URL Rewrite
i had to modify an NGINX configuration to allow getting the static files from a different folder.
server {
listen 80;
server_name app.test;
root "/home/vagrant/app/public";
index ...
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How to know if connection is made to a server using alias or not? [duplicate]
Is there a way to know if the connection to a host is made via an alias or using the direct host name itself? This is in Linux.
Basically I want to find out what are the connections made to my DB ...
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Virtual Alias File Using Regular Expression in Exim 4.89
I would like to thank you in advance for taking my question. I am deploying a mail server using Exim, version 4.89, and would like to use a virtual alias file using regular expression to forward ...
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Can't connect to site in IIS through DNS Alias, but can connect through localhost
I have a site in IIS configured and visible over localhost.
I have also set up an CNAME Alias within the DNS to point to this server as 'main' and set up the bindings for the site with 'main' over ...
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Autoindex cuts off end of directory path; workaround needed
I'm trying to set up a sort of shared hosting with nginx where each user has a public_html directory. Requests to /~username are aliased to /home/domain-users/username/public_html. Problem is, I also ...
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Postfix: multiple aliases for same mail address from multiple results
I am about to configure our new mailserver and one feature must be that mailinglists must be delivered to multiple receipients as well as to an internal shared imap folder.
we store most of our users ...
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Nginx location alias for theme files
I'm trying to move my theme files outside of document root. I'm using nginx for the server and I've tried using alias and root directives in a location block. Nothing I've tried works and I suspect it'...
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Bash directory alias/redirect
I'm trying to compile a library and his dependencies (lots of dependencies), but the system that I'm using didn't have the usual directory structure. I'm searching for a method to "redirect" all the ...
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Nginx is not serving Perl files
I am running Nginx server on Debian 9. My problem is that, Nginx is serving Perl files in root directory, but it is not serving in alias directory (I get 403 Forbidden).
This is my configuration of ...
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Mapping alias in virtual host for a website - URL routes do not work
I have two Laravel sites: a front page and an API site. My customer will later separate the API site on a subdomain, but for the time being the customer wants to serve the API from inside "subfolder" ...
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shell : warn about or deny command execution with help of an alias
executing
iptables -F
is very dangerous if your default policy for one or all chains is DROP
I would like to use an alias in bashrc like
alias iptables -F="echo \
'WARNING: due to the DROP ...
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Nginx: use $http_host in location
I got many server aliases in nginx configuration:
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com site1.example.com site2.example.com site3.example.com
...
How i can control specific ...
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Postfix not respecting mysql alias domains
So the setup is using postfix, dovecot, postfixadmin and mysql. I have configured postfix admin to alias one domain, "name.co.uk" to "name.net", I see this in the database so there's no issue there. ...
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Execute local alias through ssh on remote server
I know I can execute a function through SSH on a remote server like so:
$ ssh remote_server "$(declare -f cool_function); cool_function"
I also have some aliases that I would like to execute on ...
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Is it possible to create a global SQL Server alias?
I understand it is possible to create a SQL Server alias on a per-client basis via SQL Server Configuration Manager, but is it possible to do it globally, on the target SQL Server server?
My goal ...
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Apache Alias to serve /blog from another directory
I'm upgrading our website, the blog hasn't been done yet so I want everything starting with www.mydomain.com/blog* to use the code under a specific directory (var/www/blog) everything else will come ...
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Alias hostname and file path
Is it possible to mask the hostname with an Alias and variables?
For example:
I would like to call http://easyNameToRemember/path/to/file
instead of:
http://uglyServerName:8000/the/real/path/to/...
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ANAME / ALIAS records for BIND
I operate some DNS servers using BIND for around 15,000 domain names. Some customers would like to start using a Full-Site Content Delivery CDN and a requirement for this is supporting the usage of ...
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SMTP name too long for Canon
I am setting up a Canon iR device to scan to email, but their field name for SMTP server is too short for my MX record address.
Is there a way to set-up an alias that would work round this, or some ...
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Filter mail recipient by alias matching with sender's domain
I use an alias for each company that I provide an e-mail contact. So, for example, in /etc/aliases
somecompany: myuser
The address I supply to SomeCompany would be somecompany@mydomain.com
If the ...
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Same Postfix aliases for different domains
I've got Postfix managing two different domains one.com and two.com, included in the my destination variable of the main.cf file.
I need an /etc/aliases file including something like this:
user@one....
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Postfix: forward email to non-local address - expanded from user unknown
I'm running into issues with postfix, specifically while creating a local virtual alias to forward email to external addresses (on other servers).
My goal is to: Forward all email sent to fwd@xyz.com ...
