From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from oldham.net(dsl-64-192-148-25.telocity.com[64.192.148.25]) (2340 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 08:21:48 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from kcreasy ([10.0.1.11]) by oldham.net (8.11.0/8.8.7) with SMTP id f2LJFiw03931 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 14:15:45 -0500 Message-ID: <001f01c0b211$d8d50080$0b01000a@topservice.net> From: "jonathan" To: References: Subject: Re: multiple domains Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 08:17:24 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 List-Id: Kickin. I need to look in to this, it would be very helpfull for some sites I'm hosting. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kirk Wood" To: Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 7:31 AM Subject: Re: multiple domains > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, jonathan wrote: > > you can't do it with one ip, how would the server know which domain you > > wanted? the name you request is not passed on, it goes to your dns server > > and from then on the servers you are accessing are only dealing with ip's/ > > Specification for HTTP1.1 allows for multiple domains to share a single IP > address. the browser sends the complete URL in its request. The server > looks at the requested domain and responds accordingly. Many hosting > companies will allow you to take advantage of this directing a > "parked" domain name to point to a directory within your site. > > As a side note, until Microslop went to version 5 of its web server this > was not supported. You had to multihome a machine to allow two web sites > on the same box. They finally got it so you didn't shortly before winblows > 2k. That was considered a show stoping feature of the version. They had > grown tired of being beaten up about this area of appache's superiority. > > ======= > Kirk Wood > Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net > > Nothing is hard if you know the answer or are used to doing it. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup