Managing Domain Aliases

Operator: <domain_alias>

XML Schema: domainalias_input.xsd, domainalias_output.xsd

Plesk version: Plesk 7.5.6 Win | Unix 8.0 and later

API RPC version: 1.4.0.0 and higher

Plesk user: Plesk Administrator

Description

Domain Aliases are alternative names for the domain name. You can also use domain aliases to redirect mail and Java applications from the domain alias to your original domain name. Tomcat (Java) redirection means that the Tomcat server set on the primary domain (port 9080) handles requests coming from domain aliases (from port 9080). Plesk Administrators can manage all domain aliases registered on Plesk server.

Note: The Tomcat support is provided from the 1.4.2.0 version of API RPC.

Supported operations

• CREATE creates an alias for the specified domain
• GET retrieves the alias settings for the alias specified by ID name, or the primary domain ID, name
• SET updates the alias settings for the alias specified by ID name, or the primary domain ID, name
• DELETE removes the specified alias from the domain
• RENAME renames the alias related to the specified domain
• GET-SUPPORTED-SERVICES retrieves the list of domain alias supported services which can be managed on the server

Remarks

When you set up a domain alias, resource records in its DNS zone are copied from the original domain name. This means that if your original domain points to an external mail server, your domain alias will point to that mail server, too. However, to accept mail for the domain alias, the external mail server should be configured accordingly.

Whenever you change mail exchange records in the domain DNS zone, be sure to introduce the respective changes in the DNS zone of the domain alias.

If you need to serve several domain names that point to a web site hosted on another server, you should set up domain forwarding.