From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 19 9:57:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts13.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B58F37B40D for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 09:57:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca ([65.93.38.74]) by tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20010919165748.SFYK3269.tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 12:57:48 -0400 Received: from localhost (matt@localhost) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f8JGp2g64141; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 12:51:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@xena.gsicomp.on.ca) Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 12:49:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Matthew Emmerton To: Vivek Khera Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding IP Addresses to a FreeBSD box In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 19 Sep 2001, Vivek Khera wrote: > >>>>> "BNH" == Brent N Hunter writes: > > BNH> Do you know what file or files need to be changed to > BNH> get a new IP address onto a FreeBSD box? (to host web > BNH> pages on multiple domains) > > Firstly, you don't need multiple IP addresses to host multiple domains > these days. I can't think of anyone that would be using a web browser > that doesn't work with name-based virtual hosts. Simply configure > your web server to use virtual hosts determined via the name with > which they are accessed. > > The only time I've come across when you must have multiple IPs is for > hosting multiple SSL secured sites at different host names. True. However, many web search engines will only cache the first name-based host that resolves to an IP and will ignore the rest. This can be quite a problem if clients are paying for web search engine exposure and they're not getting it. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message