Re: Virtual Server??? - R5.0.10

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Taken from the Domino Administration Help:

"An alias maps multiple DNS names to a single IP address. This allows
users to enter different URLs to access a Web site -- for example, if you
want users to be able to enter either www.acme.com or acme.com to access
the Acme Web site. Entering an alias is also useful if you want to change
the DNS name for the Web site -- for example, if the company name changes
but you do not want to break links to the previous DNS name.
An alias is also known as a virtual host."

Based on this definition I assumed I needed virtual servers instead of
virtual hosts since the web sites are different?!? Is this a correct
assumption?
John Techmeier
IT Director
The Medalcraft Mint, Inc.
Phone:  920-499-4249
Fax:    920-499-7092
Email:  jtechmeier@medalcraft.com




"Dave Guerrero" <dguerrero@compures.com>
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10/30/2002 12:18 PM
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>I have one AS/400 170 running a single instance of Domino. I want to host
>two, or more, separate web sites on this one server. One would be the
>primary server, www.abc.com, and a second would be www.xyz.com, and I
>might want to add a third as www.abc-test.com.

>I have one physical network adapter with multiple IP addresses assigned.
I
>have my internet DNS provider pointing two separate external IP addresses
>at my system utilizing two of the internal IP addresses.
>        External (xx.xx.xx.25) translates to 192.168.10.8 (www.abc.com)
>        External (xx.xx.xx.26) translates to 192.168.10.99 (www.xyz.com)

>My question is this...do I need to have (xx.xx.xx.26) translate to
>192.168.10.99 for www.xyz.com to work or would it work with the first
>translation, since the Domino HTTP server is hosting both sites, making
>www.xyz.com a true virtual server with a virtual IP address? Will I need
>to purchase additional external IP addresses to add additional sites?

Given your scenario:

Are you using one IP address for the Domino base and Domino HTTP and then
a
virtual server for the 2nd IP address?  If that is what you are doing, you
will actually free up the 2nd IP address because you won't need it for the
websites (you could use it for Websphere or something else).

External (xx.xx.xx.26) translates to 192.168.10.8 for the following hosts
(www.abc.com, www.xyz.com, www.abc-test.com) and for Domino.
These hosts would be defined as virtual hosts and not virtual servers
which
allows the single IP address to be used with multiple domain names.

I'm not sure if you could run a virtual server and virtual hosts at the
same time, I think you can, but I haven't tried, so I don't know for sure.

Thanks,

Dave Guerrero
e-Business Solutions Manager
Computech Resources, Inc.
1375 W. Main Avenue
De Pere, WI 54115
Phone:  920-336-1387 Ext. 264
Cell:  920-360-7225
Fax:  920-336-7728
e-Mail:  dguerrero@compures.com
Web:  www.compures.com




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