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Multiple websites on Linux Apache server? 1
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Hi,
Sounds like you need IP-based virtual hosts. This is very simple and all you need to do is make sure that all the different IP addresses are routed to the apache box. This would obviously be arranged with your ISP(s). Once you've got the traffic arriving at your apache box the server will use the VirtualHost containers that match the IP address invoked by the browser user. So, you'd have two or more blocks like this in your /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file :
<VirtualHost 172.16.16.1>
DocumentRoot /var/ ServerName </VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost 172.16.16.2>
DocumentRoot /var/ ServerName </VirtualHost>
So, in this example a request for (IP address 172.16.16.1) would cause apache to serve up content from the /var/ directory and a request for (172.16.16.2) would cause apache to serve up content from the /var/ directory.
The other version of virtual hosts is name based virtual hosts. Here you have only one IP address and get the DNS records configured so that all your sites resolve to a single IP address. Then you configure it such so that apache will choose a virtual host container based on the http header, e.g. For example :
NameVirtualHost 172.16.16.1
<VirtualHost 172.16.16.1>
UseCanonicalName off
DocumentRoot /var/ ServerName </VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost 172.16.16.1>
UseCanonicalName off
DocumentRoot /var/ ServerName </VirtualHost>
See --> for more info.
Hope this helps
Sounds like you need IP-based virtual hosts. This is very simple and all you need to do is make sure that all the different IP addresses are routed to the apache box. This would obviously be arranged with your ISP(s). Once you've got the traffic arriving at your apache box the server will use the VirtualHost containers that match the IP address invoked by the browser user. So, you'd have two or more blocks like this in your /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file :
<VirtualHost 172.16.16.1>
DocumentRoot /var/ ServerName </VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost 172.16.16.2>
DocumentRoot /var/ ServerName </VirtualHost>
So, in this example a request for (IP address 172.16.16.1) would cause apache to serve up content from the /var/ directory and a request for (172.16.16.2) would cause apache to serve up content from the /var/ directory.
The other version of virtual hosts is name based virtual hosts. Here you have only one IP address and get the DNS records configured so that all your sites resolve to a single IP address. Then you configure it such so that apache will choose a virtual host container based on the http header, e.g. For example :
NameVirtualHost 172.16.16.1
<VirtualHost 172.16.16.1>
UseCanonicalName off
DocumentRoot /var/ ServerName </VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost 172.16.16.1>
UseCanonicalName off
DocumentRoot /var/ ServerName </VirtualHost>
See --> for more info.
Hope this helps
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