Hi I am beginner in this stuff,

[tombee79]

Hi

I am beginner in this stuff, so can somebody explain to me in plain english what is virtual hosts and how to set them up. What are they used for, how they work and so on..

THanks for explai...

 

[iggystar]

Hi, I'm mostly a beginner as well but I can field this one. Virtual hosts are a way of allowing you to host multiple web site on a single web server. Either by assigned multiple IPs or by sorting them by name Apache can serve many sites from a single box.

Check out this site for specific info:

http://japache.infoscience.co.jp/japanese_1_3_6/manual/vhosts/

Also, if you just enter "Virtual Hosts"&Apache into

http://www.altavista.com

you'll pull up tons of good results. I just tried that search and I saw at least 3 tutorials on the first page of results.

Good luck.