Thanks Brian, I'll give it a whirl... Pretty sure I bound tightly to IPs as in 127.0.0.1:80 127.0.0.1:443 and xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:4343 Will make sure... The link you sent looks very appealing though and will have a look at it - Thanks! Will let you know how I fare. Cheers and thanks again, Ian On 9/30/07, Brian Munroe <brian.e.munroe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 9/30/07, Ian Johnson <cjohnsoia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Am I doing thinks a little backwards here. I simply have a requirement that: > > > > 1. I can't use a name based servers, and > > 2. I want to keep two completely separate and independent server roots. > > > > Is this not possible? > > > > I have had this bookmarked for about a year now: > > Running Name-Based SSL Virtual Hosts in Apache > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/apache/2005/02/17/apacheckbk.html > > I've never actually read the article, but the topic looked > interesting, it might be able to help you. > > That being said - if you really want to run two instances, you need to > configure your Listen directive to bind only to a certain IP address. > By default, Apache is configured to bind to every interface. > > You control this via the Listen directive: > > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/bind.html > > Your 'utility' instance would be bound only to locahost, so you'd edit > it's httpd.conf like: > > Listen 127.0.0.1:80 > Listen 127.0.0.1:443 > > Also, you can treat localhost like a normal IP address and configure > it with as an IP based virtual host... > > HTH, or atleast gets you going in the right direction. > > -- brian > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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