Re: CGIDEV2 question

["Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you point the subdomain at a different IP, then it would
be virtually the same as using a different port.

Probably got a little late into this.. :)

On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:07:04 -0600 (CST)
 web400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > The direction I like to go sometimes is to use sub
> domains so you don't have
> > to start going the port route.  For instance,
> http://sub.domain.com/ is much
> > more appealing than http://domain:8080/. Not that URLs
> have to be appealing,
> > but sometimes image matters :-)
> 
> Now I'm confused.  I thought the reason people used
> separate ports so 
> often on the iSeries was so they could have their own
> Apache configuration 
> that they could mess around with and not worry about
> breaking the main 
> server?
> 
> Using subdomains (and by that, I assume you're using
> VirtualHosts) won't 
> help you in that case, will it?  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.
> 
> What do subdomains give you that a simple subdirectory
> wouldn't?  (Other 
> than maybe a shorter URL...)
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Bradley V. Stone
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