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>What do subdomains give you that a simple subdirectory wouldn't? (Other than maybe a shorter URL...) Well, cough, in the M$ world I would use it to route traffic to a different servers (one app one server approach). I should have prefaced my comments with the fact that I do a fair amount of my J2EE development for the Wintel platform. It is amazing the fear there is with putting more than one big app on a server :-) Anything that is customer facing I would never have them see ports in the URL (if I could help it). Reason is I can almost guarantee if you have your app at http://myserver.com:8080/MyApp they will many times go to http://myserver.com/MyApp. Sure book marking fixes this problem, but so does putting it at a completely different "pretty" url of http://myapp.myserver.com. Six of one, half dozen of the other I guess. Maybe for internal uses it is more ok in some cases. >Using subdomains (and by that, I assume you're using VirtualHosts) won't help you in that case, will it? That's one of the beauties of sub domains (DNS experts correct me if I am wrong). They are abstracted up to your DNS server instead of a single machine. So you can have http://sub1.domain.com point to a different machine than http://sub2.domain.com. This isn't as much of a need for iSeries folks because we don't have "server farms" necessarily or the "One App One Server" approach to hosting. >You'll be sharing the same configuration as the main web server, and therefore run the risk of breaking it when you monkey with the options. The site that my http://mowyourlawn.com website is on hosts about 30+ small fairly static domains and each domain has it's own "child" Apache virtualhost configuration file that is governed from a main "parent" Apache configuration file. I was unable to find the "parent" config file so I am not sure what that looks like, but below is what the "child" config file looks like. I did not set up this Apache server, so I am not exactly sure how it works, I just know it does and they all operate off of the same IP address but completely separate "child" config files. I don't know if I answered your question or not, but hopefully you know more of where I am coming from. Aaron Bartell file: mowyourlawn.com <Directory /xyz/xyz/mowyourlawn.com/www/cgi-bin> ... ... ... ... </Directory> <Directory /xyz/xyz/mowyourlawn.com/www> ... ... ... ... ... ... ... </Directory> <VirtualHost 111.222.333.444> ServerName www.mowyourlawn.com ServerAlias mowyourlawn.com DocumentRoot /xyz/xyz/mowyourlawn.com/www/ </VirtualHost>
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