Mixed Name/IP-Based Virtual Hosts

You can, of course, mix the two techniques. <VirtualHost> blocks that have been NameVirtualHostedwill respond to requests to named servers; others will respond to requests to the appropriate IP numbers. This will also be important when we look at Apache SSL (see Chapter 11): 

User webuser
Group webgroup

NameVirtualHost 192.168.123.2

<VirtualHost www.butterthlies.com>
ServerAdmin sales@butterthlies.com
DocumentRoot /usr/www/APACHE3/APACHE3/site.virtual/htdocs/customers
ErrorLog /usr/www/APACHE3/APACHE3/site.virtual/IP-based/logs/error_log
TransferLog /usr/www/APACHE3/APACHE3/site.virtual/IP-based/logs/access_log
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost sales.butterthlies.com>
ServerAdmin sales@butterthlies.com
DocumentRoot /usr/www/APACHE3/APACHE3/site.virtual/htdocs/salesmen
ServerName sales.butterthlies.com
ErrorLog /usr/www/APACHE3/APACHE3/site.virtual/IP-based/logs/error_log
TransferLog /usr/www/APACHE3/APACHE3/site.virtual/IP-based/logs/access_log
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 192.168.123.3>
ServerAdmin sales@butterthlies.com
DocumentRoot /usr/www/APACHE3/APACHE3/site.virtual/htdocs/salesmen
ServerName sales-IP.butterthlies.com
ErrorLog /usr/www/APACHE3/APACHE3/site.virtual/IP-based/logs/error_log
TransferLog /usr/www/APACHE3/APACHE3/site.virtual/IP-based/logs/access_log
</VirtualHost>

The two named sites are dealt with by the NameVirtualHost directive, whereas requests to sales-IP.butterthlies.com, which we have set up to be192.168.123.3, are dealt with by ...

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