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How To Configure a Domain with the IT-100 Providing DNS Services
You can host numerous domains
on the IT-100 and provide website, email, and a variety of other services
for each domain. While creating a domain involves configuring numerous
services on the IT-100. The Add a Domain
Wizard walks you through the steps in a straightforward and easy-to-follow
manner. To create a new domain on the IT-100:
Go to CoreVista
Web Click Domains
on the left-hand sidebar menu
Click ADD
in the Domains box
Type your domain
name in the Domain Name field
An example
of the way you need to word the domain name is domain.com
or emergecore.com Note: if
you are going to use this domain to host a public
website, a public FTP server
or a public email server, you
must register your domain name with an ICANN
accredited registrar
Click ADD
Click NEXT
You are provided with four
choices as far as how to provide
DNS services for your new domain Note:
to see the other choices for providing
DNS services for a domain, go to the HOW TOs: Domains
section of the EmergeCore support page
To use the IT-100
as your primary DNS server (recommended),
click the I would like to use the IT-100
to serve DNS for domain.com
radio button where "domain.com"
is actually the name of your domain Click NEXT
To use the IT-100 as your mail
server, click the Mail for this
domain should be delivered to the IT-100 radio button
To use another
server on the network as a mail
server, click the Mail for this
domain should be delivered to the following server radio button
and then type the name of the mail server
in the Server Name field
Note:
the format for a mail server name is typically something like mail.domain.com Note:
if you chose a server other than the
IT-100 as a mail server,
you will see a page confirming your decision.
If the name is correct, click NEXT The Web Services
for your domain page appears
To use the IT-100
to host your web site for this
domain (recommended), click the Web pages
for this domain should be served by this IT-100 radio button
To use another
server on the network as your
web server, click the Web pages
for this domain should be served by the following server radio
button. Then either type the IP address of that server in the IP Address fields (such as 10.9.8.7)
or type the server's
domain name in the Server Name
field (such as www.emergecore.com) Click NEXT
Note:
if you chose a server other than the
IT-100 as a web server,
you will see a page asking if
you want to have your domain name as
an alias for the domain name of the server or if you want
your domain name to directly point to the IP address of the web server.
Click the appropriate radio button and click NEXT The FTP Services
for your domain page appears
To use the IT-100
as your FTP server for this domain
(recommended), click the ftp.domain.com should point to this IT-100 radio button
where "domain.com"
is your domain name
To use another
server on the network as your FTP
server, click the ftp.domain.com should point to the following server
radio button where "domain.com"
is your domain name. Then either type the IP
Address of that server in the IP
address fields (such as 10.9.8.7)
or type the server's domain name
in the Server Name field (such
as ftp.emergecore.com) Click NEXT
Note:
if you chose a server other than the
IT-100 as a web server,
you will
see a page asking if you want to have your domain name as an alias for
the domain name of the server or if you want
your domain name to directly point to the IP address of the FTP server.
Click the appropriate radio button and click NEXT The DNS Setup
FINISH page appears
Click FINISH
You are taken to the Domains
page for your new domain. The User
Summary box is empty since no users have been configured for this
domain. See HOW TO: User section
to learn how to create new users for this domain Note:
in the left-hand sidebar menu under the
Domains folder, you will see a new
folder for your newly created domain. Under the new domain folder,
you see pages for DNS, FTP
Stats, Web Builder, and
Web Stats
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