Virtual Hosting
One of the more popular services to provide with a Web server is to host a virtual domain, also known as a virtual host. This is a complete Web site with its own domain name, as if it were a standalone machine, but it's hosted on the same machine as other Web sites. Apache implements this capability in a simple way with directives in the httpd.conf configuration file.
A new way to dynamically host virtual servers was recently added. This is enabled using the mod_vhost_alias module. The module is primarily intended for ISPs and similar large sites that host a large number of virtual sites. This is a module for more advanced use, and as such it goes outside the scope of this introductory chapter. Instead, this section concentrates ...
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