[lug] virtual domains

[PC Drew]

Thus spake hector M Banda on Wednesday, June 07, 2000, 3:10:56 PM:

hMB>         I already own all those domains that I want to host . Now, when I
hMB> register the domains and I get all the DNS's ( like granitecanyon) do I point
hMB> all those domains to the same server IP address?

There's two schools of thought with virtual domains: hardware and
software.  With Netscape Enterprise Server, the best way to handle
virtual domains is to have a seperate IP address for each virtual
server.  This would mean that, in your case, 1 server would have 3 or
4 IP addresses.  Then, in the DNS, you'd point the domain to its
respective IP address.

The other school of thought, software virtual servers, is what most
people do with Apache.  With Apache, you'd setup your DNS to all point
to the same IP address and then Apache will figure out that you've
typed in www.yourdomain.com instead of www.yourotherdomain.com and
distinguish the two based on your configuration file.

Here's Apache's documentation on the matter:
http://www.apache.org/docs/vhosts/index.html

Oh, and you're definitely not the only one who's trying to do this!!