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From: Mark Hittinger <bugs@ns1.win.net>
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Subject: multi virtual web sites
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Brian Tao's message earlier this weekend made me pick up one of my 
backburner projects and see if FreeBSD was up to the task.  Dare I
even think it?  :-)

Brian is right, the ifconfig alias supports multiple aliases per
ethernet port, unlike most unix's that support one.  How convenient!!
You learn something new every day.

So if you grab the patches for your web server from:

	http://www.thesphere.com/%7Edlp/TwoServers

You get to have more than TwoServers since you happen to be a FreeBSD
person.  Beat that drum!  Pound! Pound!

I use the CERN httpd and the patches went in very easily.  I had to
fool around a little bit with the technique.  The bind() call needs
to be executed with privilege, so you have to run as root.  This is
nasty, however, the "parentuserid"/"parentgroupid" can get you around
that little nasty.

SO!  Yet another FreeBSD solution to a major problem that I was putting off
because 2 was not so good, and hacking a ppp loopback was going to
take some time.  This is great.

Regards,

Mark Hittinger
bugs@win.net