RE: test environment

[Tim Sellar]

If your test server is in the same physical location as you are, just set give it a private IP address (192.168.10.10) and create various virtual servers (192.168.10.11 - 19), ensure your laptop is also in the 192.168.10.x range on a free IP and you will be away. However, I am assuming that your test server is in a different physical location to you and this makes the above option impossible...   If your test server has a true internet IP and you are accessing it over the web then all of your hosting servers would need true internet IPs for you to be able to access them directly via HTTP,FTP,SMTP over the web as well. If you allocate your virtual servers private IP addresses they would only be visible from the hosting server (though you may need to modify the hosting server's route table to ensure this) and not directly from your 'remote' laptop. This should be sufficient to allow you to try out freeVSD to a limited extent. You can log into your hosting server and use command-line tools to examine the virtual servers and most of their services. Use ftp,lynx,telnet etc....I suspect though that getting mail to work in this context may be a little complicated...   If this proves insufficient, drop me line as our 'demo-svr' full of virtual server's for people to peruse although still beta may prove useful.   Tim      -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matt Andreko Sent: 07 August 2001 16:08 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: test environment I'm new to the freevsd thing, I just saw it.  I'm setting up a test server to see if it's what i've been looking for.  I don't have access to more than 1 IP at the current location.  If i decide to go with freevsd then i'll have a multitude of them.  For my test server, would it be possible to take my 1 IP, and then assign all the servers to private IP addresses (192.168.1.x) ?  Then i could connect my laptop to the network, and browse the sites i setup as tests, and administer it.    Would this be a possible testing solution for me? -- Matt Andreko On-Ramp Indiana (317)774-2100