What is the best practice for getting a single server to host multiple domains? Specifically, I have access to a few public IP addresses and I would like each web site to use a unique public IP address, just in case we desire to break out the sites onto seperate servers. I want to set up the DNS for the domains to point to the unique addresses from the start. Does this make sense? I need to multi-home the servers NIC, yes? How do I do that? What do I need to do on the server to serve out multiple sites? Thanks in advance, Hi, Best is to read about virtual hosts in apache here : http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/vhosts/ They have two concepts, name or ip-based services. Are those servers all from the same domain? Do you use your own DNS-server for this domain? if you reply with yes, you can handle several sites on the same ip-adress by namedbased virtual hosts. As you have to enter all your virtual hosts even in your DNS-server, it's up to you how you handle. I would prefer having all on one IP-adress, with the appropiate entry in my DNS-Zone (either via CNAME or A entry, CNAME is more comfortable ;-)). If you split your sites on more than one server, you just have to change the dns-entry for the host to the new ip-adress on your DNS-server. If you do it vi ip-based, think about aliasing your Ethernet-Interface and indicating the appropriate IP-Adresses. The rest you should also find in the document of the virtual hosting from apache an about aliasing here: http://home.pacific.net.sg/~harish/linuxipalias.html HTH Roger
