From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 8 11:34:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA20054 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 11:34:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hecate.webcom.com (hecate.webcom.com [209.1.28.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA20049 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 11:34:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from graeme@echidna.com) Received: from kigal.webcom.com (kigal.webcom.com [209.1.28.57]) by hecate.webcom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id LAA20108; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 11:34:06 -0700 Received: from [199.183.207.81] by inanna.webcom.com (WebCom SMTP 1.2.1) with SMTP id 3516699; Tue Sep 08 11:33 PDT 1998 Message-Id: <35F5A1FF.E4B@echidna.com> Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 14:30:39 -0700 From: Graeme Tait Organization: Echidna X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Eric J. Schwertfeger" , Michael Dorin Cc: info@boatbooks.com Subject: Re: How well do virtual domains work with same IP address? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote: > > On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Michael Dorin wrote: > > > How well do virtual domains work with the same IP address using apache? > > You can't do header based virtual domains using https:, and some programs > (very few browsers, and all of those rather old) have problems because > they don't supply the host: header, but I haven't seen any other problems > with them. I don't believe this is correct. It might depend on the particular SSL implementation, which is not part of Apache anyway. I am considering purchasing Stronghold for SSL support (http://www.c2.net/), and have queried them on precisely this point. The answer was the multiple domains mapped to a single IP address are supported for https: access, provided you have a certificate for each domain. On the subject of the original question, I don't have much experience with Apache yet. However there are many general issues with this form of virtual hosting that may be relevant. I have extensive experience with one large hosting service (http://www.webcom.com/) which hosts some 11,000 domains mapped to a single IP. It works well for the most part, and is working better with time, but it has not been without troubles. Apart from the issue of browser support (the client must pass the "host:" header per HTTP1.1), there have been assorted problems with search engines, banning and filtering (one "bad" site may lead to banning of all under the one IP), assorted non-browser clients that don't support the host header (yet ...), etc. For us, a bottom line is still that if you want to give a customer 3-star web hosting service, you give him a private IP. -- Graeme Tait - Echidna To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message