Thanks Fred. The reason I'm using Arexx webserver was that I tried the Amiga Apache
port and after two weeks of no success, despite Jeff Sheperd's help (the person who
ported it from Unix) and others, couldn't get it to simply 'work' let alone
use it. But I think it's been updated since then (this was about 6-9 months ago at
least) so maybe I'll try again.
At present, though, Arexx webserver does work quite well, barring needing anything
more complicated than simple pages served up and downloads, simple cgis available.
For anything more I'll likely have to move to Apache or maybe try AmigaWebServer. I
know that National Amiga used to run their site on AWS for quite a while until they
moved to using a BSD machine.
Kevin
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From: Fred Wright
Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2000 6:20 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [Miami] Re: webserver questions
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Kevin Orme wrote:
> OK. A few questions about webservers and the Amiga:
>
> 1) Is it possible, with Miami or MiamiDx, to have an Amiga webserver
> answering to more than one IP? namely, if I wanted to have several
> websites on one physical machine, their content being separate, of
> course but then map different IPs onto the different content sets, is
> that possible? I know that Unix apache setups, IIS, etc. are all doing
> this, and given that Miami is a port of the BSD Tcp stack, it should
> certainly be possible . . .?
You can do this by adding additional IP addresses as "aliases", and then
using the additional IPs in the server setup. This is straightforward in
MiamiDx, but I'm not sure Miami supports it.
Note that this is not the preferred way of handling virtual hosting. The
more common approach is to map multiple hostnames to a single IP, and have
the server look at the Host tag to determine which "site" is being
accessed.
> In setting up Arexx webserver, when you put the settings into
> Miami/MiamiDx, it seems to imply that you can simply attach different
> instances to different ports/IPs, but I thought I'd ask if anyone's
> tried it (with Arexx webserver or any other Amiga webserver).
ARexx webserver??? I wouldn't use that for anything but a "toy" server.
Note that there is an Amiga port of Apache, if you don't mind using
ixemul.
> 2) same question, but then I want to add unique domain names to those
> multiple IPs, again the same Amiga is answering all the requests from
> the visitors, however, and thus has multiple domain names to listen to
> as well?
The name->IP mapping is determined by your ISP, which may charge extra for
domain hosting.
> 3) If I own a domain name already, say for argument it's www.kevin.com.
> If I set up multiple webservers in my LAN (this time, actually
> physically distinct machines, though), does my ownership of the domain
> name allow me to create multiple variations of same, ie names like:
>
> downloads.kevin.com
> news.kevin.com
> mail.kevin.com
Yes.
> and so on? I don't have to register all those variations with Network
> Solutions (or their competition) too, do I? Can I just add them to my
> DNS server (or that of my ISP) and then they will propogate across the
> net sometime thereafter? These variation names *would* have distinct,
> Internet IPs.
You'd have to operate your own DNS servers to do it on your own, which
means having at least two independent servers with full-time network
connectivity and as few common points of failure as possible. It's
usually much simpler to have yor ISP handle it. This is true regardless
of whether they map to the same IP or different IPs.
Even with your own DNS servers, your ISP presumably owns the block of IP
addresses and would need to set up the reverse mapping(s) for you.
Fred Wright
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