Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 17:18:43 -0500 (EST) From: Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe <mitayai@dreaming.org> To: wes@intele.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: apache server Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960208171559.1109F-100000@dreamlabs.dreaming.org> In-Reply-To: <199602080750.XAA00365@obie.softweyr.com>
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On Wed, 7 Feb 1996 wes@intele.net wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Feb 1996, bill clarke wrote:
> > i am up and running FBSD 2.1 and running one web site on the apache
> > server.
> >
> > i want to add some more web sites(with their own domain names). do i
> > need to acquire a unique ip address for each URL, or is there a way to
> > host multiple sites on my server with only my single assigned ip?
>
> Marc G. Fournier writes:
> > I've been following comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix for the
> > past while, and this question keeps coming up. Apache requires a
> > unique IP for each virtual server that you have running. Someone brought
> > up something about one of the commercial OSs/Servers being able to do
> > this, but I don't recall which it was (AIX maybe? *shrug*) Nobody
> > confirmed or denied it though
>
> On FreeBSD, could you get away with each virtual server using an alias
> IP address? Routing might get a little messy, depending on your
> configuration, but this might work.
>
Hrm? I allocate an IP for each of my virtual hosts, drop them in my DNS
database, then run the following at bootup to alias them to my ethernet
device, 198.96.119.1:
ifconfig ed0 alias 198.96.119.3 netmask 0xffffffff
ifconfig ed0 alias 198.96.119.5 netmask 0xffffffff
.
.
.
[etc]
This seems to work great... but is there a better way?
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