Is it possible to point a domain name to my home directory on university’s server (no root access) [closed]

I have a webpage in my home directory in my university’s RHEL 5.11 server that is accessible via www.univerisity.edu/~uname.

I have a domain name registered with godaddy and I would like to point that domain to my university web page.

Is this possible given I only have write privileges in my home directory of the university server?

If so, How can it be done?

Answer

Probably not.

You’d have to point an a record at your university’s public IP address and have that forwarded to the web server. I very much doubt they will want to forward all requests on port 80 to your webspace.

What you could do, however, is redirect your GoDaddy registered URL to www.univerisity.edu/~uname

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Source : Link , Question Author : Andrew Marshall , Answer Author : minus8

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