[ale] Virtual Servers

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Tue Apr 30 16:09:32 EDT 2002


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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