Re: [cobalt-developers] Virtual sites sharing IP address

[Jerry Pape <jplist@xxxxxxxx>]

All,

This approach is often mentioned, but it is not really suitable for 
external deployment. That is to say, if your clients want to see a 
site in progress or your are testing the migration of one site from 
host to host, using an /etc/hosts mod might work for you, but I can't 
even fathom having to instruct the average web site client in 
/etc/hosts mods just to see the site under development. Better to 
resolve this in one central location "httpd.conf" that will continue 
to function without modification after deployment as well.

JP

> On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 jale@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>
> if u want to test sites before they are defined in DNS
> define the site in /etc/hosts
>
> on windooze use %SYSTEMROOT%\Hosts.
> or %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts. on NT
>
>
> the hosts file is read before the machine try to do lookups in DNS
>
>
> @lfa
>
>
> >  >So, whats going wrong here? Must Virtual Sites be defined in a nameserver
> >  >before a site can be created when sharing IPaddress?
> >
> >  The site *seen* by an IP address is arbitrary - and if it isn't, still
> >  think of it that way. These are VIRTUAL sites, if they were IP accessible
> >  they wouldn't be VIRTUAL.  If they ftp in w/the IP as the host and their
> >  proper LOGON ID, they will go to the correct place, but there is no way
> >  (that I know of) to web-test until it has a real name attached via DNS.
> >
> >  Danny
> >
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