[ale] Virtual Servers

[Tyler Kiley]

If he's muttering about HTTP 1.0 compliance, tell him you don't care.  If 
someone tries to visit yourdomain.com with a http 1.0 browser, they'll get 
your provider's page instead of your own.... but unless your users are using 
REALLY outdated software, you don't need to worry about that.

Tyler

On Tuesday 30 April 2002 04:40 pm, Kevin O'Neill Stoll wrote:
> Yeah, that's what I thought. The specific web server product I am unsure
> of but I do know that they are on Sun Solaris systems. The snippet that
> Jerry gave is exactly what I was thinking of. It seems that they are not
> able to understand their own server config but I am bad about being quick
> to judge sometimes...
>
> Anyway, thanks for the feedback y'all.
>
> --- Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:
> > I would guess this depends on your web server product, but I know it can
> >
> > be done with Netscape webserver as we did exactly what you're
> > suggesting.  I would expect Apache would support it as well, but I've
> > not configured it to do so.
> >
> > 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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> > to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?
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