>I have configured 2 virtual host in the http.conf file. Both are working fine since we have configured the DNS server to
>point to the apache server. We need to configure a 3rd virtual host, but can't change the DNS to point to our apache server
>until it is approved.
>So the question is how we configure the new virtual host so it is visible without DNS?
>This is the same to what a web hosting company will do. One can preview the website under some URL of the main server.
>For example if the real server is named www.server1.com and the new virtual host is for www.server2.com, then one could type
>something like www.server1.com/server2 or similar and view the file from the virtual host (server2) instead.
>I read the virtual hosting documentation and did not find anything in this subject. I though that maybe "ServerPath" could
>do the trick, but id did not work. Tried to set serverpath to "/server2/" and the requested www.server1.com/server2/ but it
>only complains that the URL was not found.
>I understand that we can set an entry in the host file to map the virtual host name to an IP, but this is not practical
>since we need to have several people in different workstations looking at this.
>How to the web hosting companies accomplish this? is it just with Apache or is it something else?
>Any suggestions?
>This is for Apache 2.0.52 running on Linux.
Reading further I found the alias directive. So now we configured:
Alias /server2.com /var/www/server2
It seems to do the trick. Any drawbacks?
Saludos,
Orlando
Orlando M. Amador
Technology Lead
Ortho Biologics LLC
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