[NTLUG:Discuss] Virtual Host in Apache (LONG)

[Keith From]

----- Original Message -----
From: MadHat <madhat at unspecific.com>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 12:42 PM
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Virtual Host in Apache (LONG)


> MadHat wrote:
> >
> > Keith From wrote:
> > > >
> >
> > You may want to look at
> > http://www.apache.org/docs/vhosts/index.html
> >
> > I will try to answer what I remember.
> >
> > >
> > > OK, this brings up another question about the "NameVirtualHost
> > > 209.223.22.92:80"
> > >
> > > If I were to have 5 sites going under Apache, would i need to do
> > > something like this????
> > >
> > > NameVirtualHost 209.223.22.92:80
> > > NameVirtualHost 209.223.22.93:80
> > > NameVirtualHost 209.223.22.94:80
> > > NameVirtualHost 209.223.22.95:80
> > > NameVirtualHost 209.223.22.96:80
> > >
> >
> > I haven't set it up this way before, with multiple NameVirtualHost
> > entries, but I think it will complain.  If you are wanting to use more
> > than 1 IP for multiple sets of virtual hosts, you may have to run
> > ddifferent instances of Apache.  I know you have have 1 set of virtual
> > hosts and the use IPs for other sites on the same apache, but not
> > multiple sets of VHs.  I didn't see anything about it in the docs.
> >
>
> damn I can't type a complete sentence...
>
> OK, if you have 5 IPs and you want to have 5 domains, put them on
> seperate IPs, if you have 1 IP and 5 domains, use the NameVirtualHost
> and use the 1 IP for all 5.  If you have say 2 IPs and you want 3
> domains on one IP and 2 on the other IP, you would have to use more than
> one instance of httpd (apache).  But if you just have 3 IPs and 5
> domains, you can have 1 domain point to the first IP, the next domain
> point to the next IP and have the last 3 domains point to the last IP
> (and use the NameVirtualHost on that IP) without running more than one
> instance of apache.
>
> Does that make sence? Or better yet, does that answer the question/solve
> the problem?
>
> --
> MadHat
>
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Yes, this makes sence. here is a copy of the httpd.conf file
that I am writing right now. I haven't tested it yet, but hopefully it will
work. What do you think. Also, I guess i had better put all of
the AddModule lines and such back in.

####
# Configuration dumper for Comanche. It can be configured, so the .conf is
human friendly
####

User webuser
Group webgroup



#Timeout 300
#minspareservers 8
#maxspareservers 20
#startservers 10
#MaxClients 150
#maxrequestsperchild 100

<VirtualHost 209.223.22.92>
ServerAdmin webmaster at mail.cbssolutions.com
DocumentRoot /files/www/cbs/pub/html
ServerName www.cbssolutions.com
ErrorLog /files/www/cbs/pub/logs/error_log
TransferLog /files/www/cbs/pub/logs/access_log
#<directory "/files/www/cbs/pub/html">
#Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks
#AllowOverride None
#order allow,deny
#allow from all
#</directory>
</Virtualhost>

<VirtualHost 209.223.22.93>
ServerAdmin webmaster at mail.cbssolution.com
DocumentRoot /files/www/testing/htdocs
Servername www.testing.com
ErrorLog /files/www/testing/logs/error_log
TransferLog /files/www/testing/logs/access_log
</VirtualHost>