"Andy Sharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As others have aluded to, if you're trying to serve > multiple domains (or hostnames) off one IP, you use a > system called software virtual hosting. HTTP/1.1 Supports > the Host: field in the http header to resolve to the site > domain. There's a limitation on virtual hosts though, if you want to do any kind of ecommerce stuff with SSL (which works via the IP number), it won't work if you try to do it with more than one of the vhosts. So you're clients are going to be stuck using an external agency (like paypal?) if they want to take on-line payments. (Though, it's always seemed to me that it might be a decent design to have *one* vhost dedicated to accepting payments for the other vhosts... so when the user is ready to close the deal they get kicked to "payment.super_secure.com" where they're asked for the credit card info to finish processing).
