On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Dan Sabo wrote: > Hi, > > I'm co locating my new server loaded with red hat Linux 7.2 tomorrow. The > co lo facility tells me that I can not have one IP address for each and > every domain name unless I can justify them; and some I can justify and some > I can't. > > What I'm wondering, what if anything will I lose if I set up domains under > (I guess they are called) virtual IP address, instead of assigning them a
virtual domains, all pointing to one real IP. software such as apache, if configured right keeps things straight. > real IP address? Are there any advantages or dis advantages of setting up > domain names without a real IP address? > You gain lower cost (every IP costs something (you may get a block of 5 for one price, but your co-locator has limited numbers too)) by using only one IP and doing virtual. Apache has a nice design for handling virtualdomains (set up a separate block in httpd.conf for each virtual domain (there's a template already there, commented out), pointing to location of the virtual domain's documentroot, etc). Since apache notices the domain name in the URL reference, not just the IP number, it works quite nicely. You can do virtual mail too. Not much hassle. -- *************************************************************************** Jerry Winegarden OIT/Technical Support Duke University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www-jerry.oit.duke.edu *************************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
