Re: Multiple web instances assistance and comments

Steve,

The short answer is yes. You can use Multi-home or Virtual IP the addresses and then bind them to the instances
that you want them to use. Reference http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedpieceAbstracts/sg246718.html?Open

Then of course you have DNS, Firewall, and depending on Subnets, routing considerations for each IP/Instance...

The biggest concern I would think will be user training... If you do this the DNS portion of the URL Changes so now

you will have http://appl1.myhost.com
http://app2.myhost.com
http://app3.myhost.com Ect.....

Of course you can handle some of this with Redirects/Rewrites in a default http://www.myhost.com

JMS...


At 03:48 PM 1/17/2003 -0600, Steve McKay wrote:

We are currently running approximately 8 different web applications under
one instance of the original HTTP server and are looking at separating the
applications so that we 2 apps running on 4 Apache instances.  We know that
we can run multiple instances listening on different ports but this presents
certain irritations (port numbers imbedded in URLs, etc.) so we have these
questions:

Jeffrey Silberberg
CompuDesigns, Inc.
Atlanta, GA. 30350
(770) 399-9464