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Re: URGENT!! Multiple WWW names on the same machine.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dana Hudes)
Thu Feb 8 19:50:31 1996

Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 16:40:19 -0500 (EST)
From: Dana Hudes <dhudes@panix.com>
To: "Daniel W. Woycke" <woycke@mitre.org>
cc: "Edgar Valencia Figueroa." <edgar@tzetzal.dcaa.unam.mx>,
        Lista WWWAdmin <www-managers@lists.stanford.edu>,
        Lista WWW Seguridad <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <v01510105ad3ff843329d@[128.29.140.151]>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu

But how does the webserver know which directory to serve for which alias?

On Thu, 8 Feb 1996, Daniel W. Woycke wrote:

> Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 14:00:21 -0500
> From: Daniel W. Woycke <woycke@mitre.org>
> To: "Edgar Valencia Figueroa." <edgar@tzetzal.dcaa.unam.mx>
> Cc: Lista WWWAdmin <www-managers@lists.stanford.edu>,
>     Lista WWW Seguridad <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>
> Subject: Re: URGENT!! Multiple WWW names on the same machine.
> 
> At 10:04 AM 2/8/96, Edgar Valencia Figueroa. wrote:
> >Hi!!
> >
> >   I am very new in this list, so if this is an obvious questions, please
> >don't flame :)
> >
> >  I have this problem: I have a httpd 1.4.2(NSCA) server running in a
> >SunSparc5 with Solaris2.4. I want to have multiples WWW servers name on
> >the same machine, so if some one is looking for:
> >
> >  http://www.abc.com - can be redirected to:
> >  http://www.myhost.com/some_directory
> >
> >  I read that I must have multiple IP address to the same ethernet
> >interface, if I can't do that, How can I solve this problem???
> >
> >        Thank you for your time, and sorry for my poor english %^) !!
> >
> >        Gracias y Hasta Luego!
> >
> >*********************************************************
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> 
> Edgar,
> 
> Try using DNS to answer the same IP for differn domain names...
> 
> -----
> Thank You,
> 
> Daniel W. Woycke, Senior INFOSEC Engineer       (703) 883-1362
> Network Security Engineering
> NIDR & Firewall Applications
> The MITRE Corporation
> "The mixed up things are, the better the solution." -- Ms. Frizzle
> 
> 
> 

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