On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 11:10:41AM -0700, Jim Carter spoke thusly: >On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Jim Burnett wrote: (snip) >To save a round of back-and forth, let me make a guess... You have two >independent web sites and each is assigned a different IP address. >Perhaps you even have two independent instances of Apache, each listening >to its own interface. This is kind of overkill. If I were setting it up, >I would have DNS CNAMEs mapping both alphabetic names to the same IP >address, and just one interface on the box, and just one instance of >Apache. Then I would set up a virtual host for each client site (the main >instance would be just for administration). Apache distinguishes the sites >by the name in the URL, not the IP address. This is the preferred method >for commercial web hosting companies. I use it for my HTTPS service. Your setup of 1 IP hosting multiple websites will work if its only dealing with HTTP. With HTTPS - you have to split the IP or port numbers, because the SSL tunnel gets established prior to parsing of the HTTP/1.1 Host: header. You could still do it, but you'd get bogus certs for different FQDNs which might not look nice if you are a e-commerce site.
