On 06.07.06 14:39, Mark Sargent wrote: > when you have x amount of virtual sites on the one machine and all of > the domains point to the same IP in DNS, how does apache distinguish > which site the request is for? Is it something in the payload section > from the upper layer of the frame that comes in? I understnad that DNS > resolves the domain name to an IP so is the domain name maintained in > the payload? No, it's the "Host" header defined in HTTP/1.1 protocol: GET / HTTP/1.0 Host: home.nextra.sk -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uhlar@xxxxxxxxxxx ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. Boost your system's speed by 500% - DEL C:\WINDOWS\*.* --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx