At 08:30 AM 07/10/2001 -0500, Mark Johnson wrote:
>I setup up some virtual web sites on my machine at home port forwarded 80
>and tested the virtual web sites at home from work. It worked great, only I
>had to map the web sites in my local hosts file at work.
>
>How would this work if you had a domain name?
>
>Let's say that I had a domain name: www.myhouse.com, and that I setup some
>virtual web sites:
>http://hobbies.myhouse.com and http://linux.myhouse.com, would those names
>have to be put into the public DNS system, or would the myhouse.com get
>resolved to my linux server, and the apache resolve the rest of the name?
>
>Does it make sense what I'm asking?
Yes, it makes sense...and yes, any virtual-hosted websites must be in the
dns system as aliases to the IP in question (as it states somewhere in the
apache config files). If they aren't, other nameservers will have no way
of resolving them.
Michael
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Michael Viron
Registered Linux User #81978
Senior Systems & Administration Consultant
Web Spinners, University of West Florida
