Some more good info for allowing IE 3.0 and NS 2.0 to use host headers for multiple site hosting on 1 IP
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/en/advanced/iis/default.asp ?url=/windows2000/en/advanced/iis/htm/core/iisuphh.htm Douglas Brown Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Nunamaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 1:56 PM Subject: RE: Pointing multiple sites to the same IP > You ought to tell Microsoft then. Read this: > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q187504 > > Tom > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark A. Kruger - CFG [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 3:27 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Pointing multiple sites to the same IP > > > Tom, > > This do not think this is the case. I use virutal sites with SSL and it > does seem to work. > > -mk > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Nunamaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 3:02 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Pointing multiple sites to the same IP > > > 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] > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. 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
