Graham Ashton wrote: > is it possible to do name based virtual hosting with proftpd? > > the documentation on the web site suggests not, and that you need to do > IP address based virtual hosting instead. :(
Name-based virtual hosting in Apache is done by reading the headers of a HTTP request: GET /path/to/file.html HTTP/1.0 Host: www.virtualhost.com [more headers] Apache uses the Host header to determine which virtual server it should use. In the FTP-protocol, there is no such header, thus name-based virtual hosting isn't possible in FTP-servers. IP-address-based virtual hosting is possible, because an ftpserver may bind itself to a specific network interface, instead of all of them. HTH, -Remco