The other downside is SSL, which can't use host headers from what I've read
Tom Nunamaker -----Original Message----- From: Hatton Humphrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 2:54 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Pointing multiple sites to the same IP There are some web servers (IIS, Apache, Sambar to name a few) that support "Host Headers"... in essence when the HTTP request is made, the domain name is sent by the client and the server can use it to delegate what documents directory is accessed based on that value. It's a pretty straightforward setup and there are several tutorials available on the web... go to your search engine of choice and do a search for Host Headers Setup and the name of your webserver application. You can also have mupltiple IP's point to the same machine and assign each IP a distinct domain name... I haven't had any perosnal experience with that option but I know that it's available. The one downside of host headers is that older browsers... say from Version 3.x and before of IE/NS don't support them. They don't send the domain with their GET request. The web server doesn't know what site to point to and will redirect to the default site, which always has to exist. HTH Hatton Douglas Brown wrote: > I have heard that you can point several different sites to one IP > using http headers, what exactly does the header need in order to do > this? > > > > Douglas Brown > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
