Kickin. I need to look in to this, it would be very helpfull for some sites I'm hosting. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kirk Wood" <cpt.kirk@xxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 7:31 AM Subject: Re: multiple domains > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, jonathan wrote: > > you can't do it with one ip, how would the server know which domain you > > wanted? the name you request is not passed on, it goes to your dns server > > and from then on the servers you are accessing are only dealing with ip's/ > > Specification for HTTP1.1 allows for multiple domains to share a single IP > address. the browser sends the complete URL in its request. The server > looks at the requested domain and responds accordingly. Many hosting > companies will allow you to take advantage of this directing a > "parked" domain name to point to a directory within your site. > > As a side note, until Microslop went to version 5 of its web server this > was not supported. You had to multihome a machine to allow two web sites > on the same box. They finally got it so you didn't shortly before winblows > 2k. That was considered a show stoping feature of the version. They had > grown tired of being beaten up about this area of appache's superiority. > > ======= > Kirk Wood > Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net > > Nothing is hard if you know the answer or are used to doing it. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
