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   Jorgen Grahn to bit-naughty@hotmail.com   
   Re: IP address based virtual hosting   
   22 Mar 16 07:34:41   
   
   From: grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se   
      
   On Tue, 2016-03-22, bit-naughty@hotmail.com wrote:   
   > I'm a little unclear on this topic, the basic thing is, that the   
   > server determines from the IP address, that, for example, Mary's   
   > site is being requested - I'm a little fuzzy as to the   
   > details.... how do you configure Apache to do that? But the larger   
   > question is.... how do you TELL one server that it has multiple IPs   
   > (in Linux)? And then, I suppose, depending on which IP the request   
   > came in *on*, the server would know that it's Mary's directory   
   > that's required..? But HOW? How does the whole thing work?   
      
   Did you try Wikipedia?   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_hosting#IP-based   
      
   It's probably easier if you base your questions on that, rather   
   than starting from zero.   
      
   /Jorgen   
      
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