[1459] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: URGENT!! Multiple WWW names on the same machine.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Streeter)
Fri Feb 9 19:19:45 1996
To: Holger.Reif@PrakInf.TU-Ilmenau.DE (Holger Reif)
Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu, edgar@tzetzal.dcaa.unam.mx,
streeter@sanders.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 09 Feb 1996 07:11:28 +0100."
<9602090611.AA25381@PrakInf.TU-Ilmenau.DE>
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 14:58:06 -0500
From: Ken Streeter <streeter@sanders.com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Holger Reif writes:
> Then Dana Hudes <dhudes@panix.com> asked:
> > But how does the webserver know which directory to serve for which alias?
> The solution is "virtual server" on a "multi-homed host".
> A "multi-homed host" has not only just more than one name but more than one
> IP adresses too. Using "virtual interfaces" you are not bound to having many
> ethernetcards. SunOS 5 can provide this.
> A "virtual server" binds (listens) not to all available IP address on the hos
> t
> (INADDR_ANY) but to a specific one...
> AFAIK it's impossible with ncsa 1.4.2 (which I run by myself)
Yes, but it was added in ncsa 1.5. See for following URL for more info:
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/tutorials/VirtualHost.html
--ken
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