rivimont — Wed, 18 Jul 2001 20:45:48 +0000

Thanks for your response.

So you are sure that virtual hosting with one IP address using sendmail will work?

Do you have any references for how to set that up? Thanks and please respond.

Thanks,
Chris

mairving — Wed, 18 Jul 2001 20:32:25 +0000

No problem to do.

Your VirtualHost part of httpd.conf will look something like this:
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Server configuration:

...
NameVirtualHost 111.22.33.44:80
NameVirtualHost 111.22.33.44:8080

ServerName domain.tld
DocumentRoot /www/domain-80

ServerName domain.tld
DocumentRoot /www/domain-8080

ServerName otherdomain.tld
DocumentRoot /www/otherdomain-80

ServerName otherdomain.tld
DocumentRoot /www/otherdomain-8080

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In the above example, they are using the document root of /www. Generally it would be /home/name1, /home/name2, etc.

Generally if you are running on 'Nix box, you would use sendmail as your email server.

Quote: What about sending mail? Do SMTP servers to reverse lookups on IP addresses to make sure the domain name matches?

SMTP servers don't do reverse name lookups.

Quote: Will this break something if there are multiple domain names for 1 IP address?

You won't break anything by doing this. There are some hosts that use Name Based and not IP based virtual hosting.

One of the things that I like best about Apache is it's flexibility.