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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e1a.megaweb.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!mozz.unh.edu!toto.plymouth.edu!oz.plymouth.edu!not-for-mail From: ted@oz.plymouth.edu (Ted Wisniewski) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: WWW domain-name aliases on a single machine (Bind)? Date: 9 Jul 1995 11:53:39 -0400 Organization: Plymouth State College - Plymouth, NH. Lines: 31 Message-ID: <3tou23$if5@oz.plymouth.edu> References: <3tkhtd$6mk@news1.best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: oz.plymouth.edu In article <3tkhtd$6mk@news1.best.com> haggis@netcom.com (John R. Haggis) writes: >I'm looking for an OS to set up a Web server. I need to set up multiple >domain names to link to web pages without subdirectory path designations, >e.g.: > http://www.userdomain.com/ > >NOT: > http://www.topdomain.com/~user > >I heard that on Linux, you couldn't do this... Something about the version >of "bind" that ran on it. I heard that on BSDI, you CAN do it the way I >want, but that's too expensive for me right now. > >Is it possible on freeBSD? It should be... I have not actually done it, but I have set up a machine with multiple IP's. You need a web server that supports multi-homing, like Apache or a patched NCSA httpd. Do your # ifconfig etherdevice alias NNN.NNN.NNN.NNN Where NNN... is the other IP address and "etherdevice" is the device designation of you ethernet adapter, like le0, ep0 etc... | Ted Wisniewski INET: ted@oz.plymouth.edu | | Computer Services ted@wiz.plymouth.edu | | Plymouth State College tedw@psc.plymouth.edu | | Plymouth NH, 03264 HTTP: http://oz.plymouth.edu/~ted/ |