DMZ & web server question

[ScreeminChikin]

I am wanting to start hosting my web sites locally. For background, I have roadrunner with a static ip and a sicco router leased from the cable company. Behind that I have a 3com firewall/vpn appliance that has a built in DMZ port. I want to set up a apache web server on a Linux box on the DMZ port of the firewall. I want to host 3 web sites on this one server. So I assume that I give this server a private IP, lets say 192.168.9.9 and lets say that my public ip is 1.2.3.4 . Now do I just set the DMZ to send http traffic to 192.168.9.9 and when someone types 1.2.3.4 into a browser they will see my web server right? Now how do know which website will be hit? would all three sites just be in a different folder in the main directory so that I could access them like http:\\1.2.3.4\site1 etc? Right now My sites are hosted on by outside providors so when I get this working I will just tell my domain name provider to point my domain names to each site like

http://www.mysite2.com

points to 1.2.3.4\site2. Am I even close here? This is my first attempt at a web server so any help is appreciated, I am making alot of assumptions so please straighten me out.

 

[ChrisAC]

Presuming that you are running Apache on your web server, you set up virtual servers in your httpd.conf config file. So you might have directories for /var/

http://www/site1/html,

/var/

http://www/site2/html

etc... Each directory will have an index page for that site, ie index.html.

So, if someone wants

http://www.site1.html

then the browser makes a get request for

http://www.site1.html

and your apache config points to /var/

http://www/site1/html

and serves the index.html page from within that directory.

Take a look at

http://www.apache.org

for more information.

Chris.
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