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Path: nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!hub.org!hub.org!fu-berlin.de!server1.netnews.ja.net!pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix Subject: Re: Virtual Domain - Multi-homed ? Date: 13 Sep 2000 23:16:51 +0100 (BST) Organization: Linux Unlimited Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3Ck*08-Bo@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk> References: <39BFF055.3CDAD3E9@starstream.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: rapun.sel.cam.ac.uk Originator: fanf@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk ([127.0.0.1]) Xref: nntp.stanford.edu comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix:87616 Jim Katz <jkca1@starstream.net> wrote: > >Newbie question, is a virtual domain in the Apache world the same >concept as a multi-homed server? Thanks in advance. No. A multi-homed host has more than one network interface. (It can sometimes be weakened to mean a host with more than one IP address on the same interface.) HTTP virtual hosting is when a machine serves more than one web site, i.e. it has multiple names in the DNS (not necessarily multiple IP addresses) and its web server software serves different content depending on the server name in the HTTP request (or for an old-fashioned setup, the incoming IP address of the request). It is possible to confuse the weakened meaning of multi-homing with old-fashioned IP-based virtual hosting. Tony. -- en oeccget g mtcaa f.a.n.finch v spdlkishrhtewe y dot@dotat.at eatp o v eiti i d. fanf@covalent.net