> Date: Monday, January 27, 2020 16:51:44 -0600 > From: o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor@xxxxxxxxx> > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 4:17 PM Richard wrote: >> >> > Date: Monday, January 27, 2020 09:42:51 -0600 >> > From: o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor@xxxxxxxxx> >> > >> > So I don't really need to use 'virtual hosts'. What I am actually >> > needing to do is to use different ports to the same 'stack' >> > rather than creating different 'stacks'. >> > >> > By this I mean that I don't need to use different server >> > configurations for each application rather than I need to 'just' >> > assign different ports to the different applications and this >> > should work. >> >> I think you may be confusing "virtual machines" and "(apache) >> virtual hosts". A virtual machine (VM) is indeed a whole "stack" >> (as you are referring to things). A[n apache] virtual host >> environment is simply configuring an instance of apache to serve >> content (more or less) as if it's on different VMs. This will >> allow you to use different document roots for each content set as >> well as serve out on different ports and/or hostnames from a >> single machine. >> >> In general I try to avoid serving content on non-standard >> http/https ports as it tends to be confusing to users. Using >> different hostnames and/or IPnumbers is cleaner and causes fewer >> headaches. >> > It may have not been clear but I was asking as to whether I should > be using virtual hosts or something else (maybe different port > numbers). > > Different hostnames - - - - how do I have that on one physical > machine? > > Are you recommending using subdomains? (I think that's what its > called!?!) > If you're trying to serve your content via http, which appears to be your goal, then to serve it out on different ports - without using the apache virtual host configuration - you'd need to have multiple instances of apache running. That's possible, but very ugly. You may want to read the apache virtual host documentation: <https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/vhosts/> Any number of hostnames (unique or sub-domains) can resolve to the same ipnumber, the responding software simply needs to know how to handle things, assuming that different responses are necessary. Look at the "name-based virtual host" information in the vhosts documentation. [A machine can also have multiple ipnumbers assigned to it.] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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