Hamins Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 Hi,We're running a Windows 2003 Domain Controller (Also act as the DNS server). Our emails are hosted by a third-party email service provider. All the users access their mailboxes via Webmail (browser). However, to do so, they have to enter a really long URL : - http://mail.spherelinksmail.com/c/vasundharatechnologies.com. It's very difficult to remember... Yes.. yes... I know.. we can always bookmark it... However, what I want to know is if I can make some changes on the DNS server, to make the URL shorter... Something like an alias... so all the user have to type in the browser is something like mail.vasundharatechnologies.com. Is that possible, if yes how?Any help/suggestions would be appreciated.Thanks !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 While it is possible, using DNS for this is a bit overkill. Assuming you have access to the webserver (or have access to a technician that does), simply put a placeholder page (called default.html or similar) that does a redirect to the "long", ugly URL.http://www.w3schools.com/Html/tryit.asp?fi...ryhtml_redirectOnce you have this page in place, requests to http://mail.spherelinksmail.com will get redirected to whatever URL is in the redirect page at the root of this webserver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamins Posted March 4, 2009 Author Share Posted March 4, 2009 Hi Cluberti,Thank once again for helping... Now, heres the strange bit. After I posted the question, I called on of our branch offices, and they mentioned that all they do is type http://mail.vasundharatechnologies.com and they're taken directly to the login page... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamins Posted March 6, 2009 Author Share Posted March 6, 2009 awww come on.... I'm someone else must have some suggestion/solution.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamins Posted March 10, 2009 Author Share Posted March 10, 2009 Does no one at all have a solution to this ?? or am I not framing the issue correctly... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyeball Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 Put a redirection on a local IIS server if you have one. Have them type in "emailsonline" or whatever and that could be a virtual directory with a masked redirection on it to the longer URL? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamins Posted March 13, 2009 Author Share Posted March 13, 2009 I dont have IIS installed..... Why cant this be done via the local DNS server ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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