[ale] Virtual Servers

Kevin O'Neill Stoll kevinostoll at yahoo.com
Thu May 2 14:43:54 EDT 2002 

Awesome thanks :)


--- Tomer Tishgarten <ttishgar at tish.dynu.com> wrote:
> The admin needs to edit a file called "obj.conf".  It should be located
> in 
> the /netscape/suitespot/https-your.ip.address directory
> 
> The administrator will need to edit the file for that server by adding 
> the following code at the bottom:
> 
> <client urlhost="mydomain.com">
> NameTrans fn="document-root" root="c:/path/to/your/site/"
> </client>
> 
> Alternatively, the admin can use the admin GUI to add a "virtual
> software 
> server" to the virtual hardware server.  I recommend the second 
> alternative if the admin is a novice.
> 
> Tomer
> 
> On Thu, 2 May 2002, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Kevin O'Neill Stoll wrote:
> > > I found out that they are using Netscape-Enterprise/3.6 sp1 and I am
> > > reading through some of documentation atm. Unfortunately, I have not
> had
> > > any experience with NE3.6 but I would assume that the same
> principles
> > > apply that a virtual server should be configured with a document
> root.
> > > 
> > > I just need to find out enough now to show the webserver admin here
> what I
> > > think he might be able to do.
> > 
> > It's been a while for me so keep that in mind.  On my last assignment
> we 
> > were running Netscape Enterprise, don't recall the version number. 
> > Anyway, it has two options for virtual servers, what they refer to as 
> > hardware virtual servers and software virtual servers.  At the time, I
> 
> > found quite a bit of info on the Netscape website regarding this 
> > functionality.
> > 
> > The bottom line is, unless Enterprise has changed since I used it, you
> 
> > definitely can do what you outlined you want to do in previous emails,
> 
> > since we did the exact same thing.
> > 
> > I know that's not much help, but the grey matter goes after you past
> 45...
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > --- "Jerry Z. Yu" <z.yu at voicecom.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > >>	you should be able to tell by server identity signature:
> > >>
> > >>/home/zyu/mail$ telnet www.domain.com 80
> > >>Trying 12.34.56.78 ...
> > >>Connected to www.domain.com.
> > >>Escape character is '^]'.
> > >>GET /junk HTTP/1.0
> > >>
> > >>HTTP/1.1 404 Not found
> > >>Server: Netscape-Enterprise/4.0		<<<<<---- server type
> > >>Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 20:46:58 GMT
> > >>Content-type: text/html
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, 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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> > >>#> Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net
> > >>#> 
> > >>#> I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
> > >>#> to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?
> > >>#> 
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> > >>Jerry Z. Yu					+1-404-262-8544 (O)
> > >>systems engineer				z.yu at voicecom.com
> > >>is support, voicecom, llc			www.voicecom.com
> > >>
> > >>
> > > 
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