Under HTTP/1.1 it is possible to run multiple sites on port 80, from the
same IP address. The host header name (ie. domain name) is used to
distinguish between each site. I don't know what the support in Orion is
for host header names, but also be aware that some older browsers may not
work correctly if they are not HTTP/1.1 compliant.
George
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-----Original Message-----
From: Christof Baumgärtner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 2:51 AM
To: Orion-Interest
Subject: Re: One IP - 3 Sites - 3 Domain Names
"Duffey, Kevin" wrote:
> Actually, Orion has the ability to work with Virtual Domains. I forget
> exactly how this works,
It's pretty easy. Starting with browser versions 3 the browsers included not
only the URI (like it is specified in HTTP/0.9 already) but the full URL
into
the HTTP request. So the full hostname is contained in the HTTP request
header.
Virtual servers (this type of server is often called "software virtual
servers")
can then find out which domain to answer by parsing the HTTP headers. You
can
see the limitations of this neat trick by simulating a HTTP request without
the
full HTTP headers. Just do a telnet to all your virtual servers on port 80
(or
on whatever server the port is running on) and do a GET request for a
document
(for example "GET /index.html"). The answer for all these requests will be
the
same.
> but you can use one IP to bind to many domain names,
> by setting up each domain as a virtual domain. This is much like how ISPs
> allow each of their clients to have their own www.mycompany.com route to
> their IP address, and then direct the web requests to the /~user_name
> directory. Orion is capable of doing this, but you'll probably have to
look
> at the archives of emails on how to do this for sure. I am pretty sure you
> need to set something in the orion-web.xml and/or the /confid/web-site.xml
> files.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andre Vanha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 3:07 PM
> > To: Orion-Interest
> > Subject: RE: One IP - 3 Sites - 3 Domain Names
> >
> >
> > As far as I know what you're trying to accomplish is
> > impossible. A web
> > server binds to an IP addresses. The domain names are just
> > pointers to the
> > same IP address. So in effect your're trying to run 3
> > webserver on the same
> > exact IP. You could bind to different ports, but then your
> > URLs would be
> > non-standard.
> > To do this correctly you'll need a different IP for each domain.
> >
> > One possibility that comes to mind, though I have no idea it
> > will work, is
> > to analyze the URL request in your servlet or JSP and attempt to
> > inlcude/forward the appropriate content in your code,
> > depending on what you
> > find.
> >
> > Andre V
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dave Ford
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 1:33 PM
> > To: Orion-Interest
> > Subject: One IP - 3 Sites - 3 Domain Names
> >
> >
> > I have one physical machine with one IP address. This one ip
> > address is
> > associated with three domain names. Each domain name should pull up a
> > different web-site.
> >
> >
> > I currently have 3 web-sites defined in server.xml:
> >
> > <web-site path="c:\@web\@OrionConfig\web-site-1.xml" />
> > <web-site path="c:\@web\@OrionConfig\web-site-2.xml" />
> > <web-site path="c:\@web\@OrionConfig\web-site-3.xml" />
> >
> > I then have three web-site-x.xml files defined. It's not
> > clear what the
> > value of the host and virtual-hosts attributes should be for
> > each of these
> > three files. I have read the docs and the faq but still can't
> > get it to
> > work.
> >
> > I tried this:
> >
> > In web-site-1.xml: <web-site host="www.domainName1.com" >
> > In web-site-2.xml: <web-site host="www.domainName2.com" >
> > In web-site-3.xml: <web-site host="www.domainName3.com" >
> >
> >
> > And this:
> >
> > In web-site-1.xml: <web-site host="63.74.110.162"
> > virtual-hosts="www.domainName1.com">
> > In web-site-2.xml: <web-site host="63.74.110.162"
> > virtual-hosts="www.domainName2.com">
> > In web-site-3.xml: <web-site host="63.74.110.162"
> > virtual-hosts="www.domainName3.com">
> >
> > It is not obvious to me, based on the docs, how to set this up. Any
> > suggestions?
> >
> > Dave Ford
> >
