[ZendTo] Re: Fixing URL used in emails

[Nigel Kendrick]

Thanks,

I had considered that as plan B but my boss thinks that clever (or even
semi-clever) DNS stuff is the work of the devil and freaks out at such
things, raising all sorts of non-relevant objections. I may do it when he's
not looking!

On 20 January 2012 13:48, Marlon R Deerr <MDeerr at tgf.ca> wrote:

> If you are using Active Directory, why don't you do what I did to get
> around this. I created a new primary zone for our external domain. Then for
> ALL external services that we would normally have pointing to our external
> public IP Adresses, I created a new A-record pointing to the corresponding
> internal server IP. If you have certain services you don't host yourself,
> just make sure that A-record points to the correct public IP.
>
> This has worked like a charm for me. Now when my users type the public dns
> name for our ZendTo server, it points them directly to my internal server
> instead but continues to use the public dns name for the URL.
>
> Regards,
> Marlon
>
> Nigel Kendrick <linker3000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Morning,
>
> Our company Internet router can't cope with loopback addresses (URLs that
> resolve back onto the LAN) and so we have a public-facing URL for customers
> to get to our ZendTo site and also an address (portal.our.lan) that we use
> internally to get to the server in the DMZ. I thought I'd hard coded the
> external address into the PHP as required to ensure that customers don't
> get emails with the unreachable internal address but I must have missed a
> bit . Excluding the option of replacing our router...
>
> 1) Could the URL used in contact emails be made a config variable so it
> survives app updates.
>
> 2) For the interim, where exactly should I look to hard code the URL - I
> wonder if I have missed an instance somewhere.
>
> Thanks
>
> Nigel
>
>
>
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