[WEB400] Re: Multiple web instances assistance and comments

["Steve McKay" <steve.mckay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff -

I can see that we will have DNS issues but since we don't control our DNS
(this is an Intranet application), they should be small (just a few entries
for the new IP addresses), shouldn't they?  And no firewall, subnet, or
routing issues?  What am I missing here?

Thanks,

Steve

"Jeff Silberberg" <jsilberberg=mn4gwa5WIIQysxA8WJXlww@public.gmane.org>
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> 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
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