[NTLUG:Discuss] Virtual Hosting

Jack Snodgrass jack+ntlug at mylinuxguy.net
Tue Feb 4 07:58:55 CST 2003


On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 02:23, severian at pobox.com wrote:
> Howdy,
>    I am not the original questioner, but I want to learn about this 
> too.  If I understand correctly, his problem is that any of the three 
> domains get translated by his domain forwarder to just an IP.  So, his 
> system can't tell which domain is being requested.  If this is the problem, 
> couldn't he set each domain to forward to a different port number?  Then he 
> could tell which page was being requested.
> Good day,
> Ralph

The only way to do that would be to have people use 

http://kcmultiservices.com/
http://kcmultiservice.com:8080/
http://albertopujols.com:8000/

not very user friendly. You can't ( with a single IP Address ) 
forward to different ports based on a url without a port specified. 

jack





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