24.3. Virtual Hosts Settings

24.3. Virtual Hosts Settings

Virtual hosts allow you to run different servers for different IP addresses, different host names, or different ports on the same machine. For example, you can run the website for http://www.example.com and http://www.anotherexample.com on the same Web server using virtual hosts. This option corresponds to the <VirtualHost> directive for the default virtual host and IP based virtual hosts. It corresponds to the <NameVirtualHost> directive for a name based virtual host.

The directives set for a virtual host only apply to that particular virtual host. If a directive is set server-wide using the Edit Default Settings button and not defined within the virtual host settings, the default setting is used. For example, you can define a Webmaster email address in the Main tab and not define individual email addresses for each virtual host.

The HTTP Configuration Tool includes a default virtual host as shown in Figure 24.8, “Virtual Hosts”.

Virtual Hosts

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Figure 24.8. Virtual Hosts


http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/vhosts/ and the Apache HTTP Server documentation on your machine provide more information about virtual hosts.


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