Yes, that's how things would

Shaggy — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:33:24 +0000

Yes, that's how things would resolve if set up as above.

Cheers,
Shaggy.

Hey, thanks a tonne for that

cr0wn3r — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:34:30 +0000

Hey, thanks a tonne for that - really helpful.

so a set up like that would give
www.example.com as a live site, running on server 1
svn.example.com and dev.example.com running on server 2

Just checking im understanding that right.

Thanks.

Sounds like a reasonable

Shaggy — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:44:35 +0000

Sounds like a reasonable approach to me. You're looking at DNS configuration to make it happen.

Assuming:
your domain = 'example.com'
'server1' is on IP 192.168.1.100 "production"
'server2' is on IP 192.168.1.200 "development"

You'll want an 'A' Records:
A server1.example.com. 192.168.1.100
A server2.example.com. 192.168.1.200

Then you can 'CNAME' (Cannonical Name / Alias) the rest:
www CNAME server1.example.com.
dev CNAME server2.example.com.
svn CNAME server2.example.com.
... etc.

If another domain name comes along, e.g. example2.com
It will have it's own configuration, and can be set up in the same / similar way to the above, and all will work...

Cheers,
Shaggy