From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 11 02:15:06 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3501F16A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 02:15:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5AEDF43D31 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 02:15:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Shadow333@gmx.at) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 11 Feb 2005 02:15:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO there) (62.218.246.180) by mail.gmx.net (mp003) with SMTP; 11 Feb 2005 03:15:02 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1027147 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Oliver Leitner Organization: none To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Lowell Gilbert , Ken Hawkins Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 03:09:33 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <094c6888335eff7ca415bc1c475e42bb@rosewoodblues.com> <44psz7j1xo.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <44psz7j1xo.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Message-Id: <20050211021505.5AEDF43D31@mx1.FreeBSD.org> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: single box handling multiple ips, how? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 02:15:06 -0000 On Friday 11 February 2005 02:54, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Ken Hawkins writes: > > I do not know what the 'web1.a.net.' is about, more specifically he > > .net"." (dot on the end). i took this for the initial setup that was > > done on the box' initial entry in the /etc/hosts. > > It looks like a DNS map, but that's not what should go in hosts(5). a view on my /etc/hosts ::1 localhost.localnet localhost 127.0.0.1 localhost.localnet localhost 192.168.xxx.3 thispc.localnet thispc 192.168.xxx.3 thispc.localnet. 192.168.xxx.2 pc02.localnet pc02 192.168.xxx.5 pc03.localnet pc03 192.168.xxx.8 pc04.localnet pc04 > > > ok what am i doing... > > > > I have apache running on the box and would like to use 3 diffferent > > IP's to try and keep (somewhat separate) the traffic, logging, > > etc. for the Virtual Hosts that are running there. > > > > ultimately I will have; > > > > resolve to -> website 1 > > resolve to -> website 2 > > resolve to -> website 3 > > > > obviously they will bind to the same box but i would like to have them > > to separate ip's to ease some maintenance on the box, redirect traffic > > when needed, blah, blah. > > > > I know that I can Name more than one VirtualHost ie; > > NameVirtualHost ???.???.???.151:80 > > NameVirtualHost ???.???.???.152:80 > > NameVirtualHost ???.???.???.153:80 > > > > and then the normal VirtualHost directive via IP's but I want to make > > sure that the box will answer to those ip's when we flip the DNS > > switch. > > > > am i making sense? did i leave anything beyond the bind directive's out? > > Sure, it makes sense, but you're making it more complicated than you > need to. At the very least, you're making the description more > complicated than you need to. > > Don't worry about virtual hosts on Apache until you have the DNS > configured for the addresses. And don't worry about the DNS until you > have all of the IP addresses configured on the relevant interface. > > So the first step will be configuring the interface. Verify this by > pinging each of the addresses from outside. The next step will be > configuring the DNS, which you can test by pinging the distinct DNS > name for each address in turn. Then once that is working, you can > configure Apache to handle IP-based virtual hosts for each address. > > Good luck. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- By reading this mail you agree to the following: using or giving out the email address and any other info of the author of this email is strictly forbidden. By acting against this agreement the author of this mail will take possible legal actions against the abuse.