[ale] Virtual Servers

[Jerry Z. Yu]

For apache server, it can be accomplished by virtual host by name as in 
the following exerpts of httpd.conf

NameVirtualHost 13.34.253.42
<VirtualHost 13.34.253.42>
        ServerName a.domain.com
        DocumentRoot  /abitrary/folder/on/the/server
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost 13.34.253.42>  
        ServerName theother.domain.com       
        DocumentRoot  /another/abitrary/folder/on/the/server
</VirtualHost>



On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Fulton Green wrote:

#This is EXACTLY (or close to) how the legacy EarthLink (i.e., MindSpring)
#user home pages work. http://home.MindSpring.com/~username and
#http://username.home.MindSpring.com/ work equally well, despite
#anyusername.home.MindSpring.com resolving to the same singluar IP address.
#If the server speaks HTTP/1.1, the exact website can be passed to the
#server and the properly mapped pages returned. If their system isn't
#fancy enough, you'd think they could at least bounce a request for
#www.somedomainname.com to www.somedomainname.com/yourfolder .
#
#On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 11:52:22AM -0700, Kevin O'Neill Stoll wrote:
#> Got a question about virtual servers.
#> 
#> Let's say that I have 2 ways to get to my web site. One domain name,
#> domainname.com and anotherdomainname.com/foldername.
#> 
#> Either way I get the same index page initially. The domainname.com is a
#> shared IP address with a bunch of other web sites on it. Shouldn't they be
#> able to point domainname.com at the anotherdomainname.com/foldername?
#> 
#> I asked this question of the web server admin but I get lot's of silly
#> answers as to why they can't do this. It seems as though it is a simple
#> alias to a directory for my web site content. I hope this made sense or
#> dollars even :p
#
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