40.5. Creating Virtual Servers
ProFTPD's most useful feature is probably its support for virtual FTP servers. This allows you to define a totally different set of options that apply to clients connecting to a particular IP address. In most ways, they are similar to Apache's IP-based virtual servers, with which most website administrators should be familiar.
Virtual servers are only really useful if your system has multiple IP addresses. Typically, this is done by adding additional virtual IP addresses to your Internet-connected network interface, as explained in Chapter 16, which covers Network Configuration. As usual, any extra IP addresses must be properly routed to your system. If you are connected to an ISP and assigned only a single static ...
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