Port-Based Virtual Hosting
Port-based virtual hosting follows on from IP-based hosting. The main advantage of this technique is that it makes it possible for a webmaster to test a lot of sites using only one IP address/hostname or, in a pinch, host a large number of sites without using name-based hosts and without using lots of IP numbers. Unfortunately, most ordinary users don’t like their web server having a funny port number, but this can also be very useful for testing or staging sites.
User webuser Group webgroup Listen 80 Listen 8080 <VirtualHost 192.168.123.2:80> ServerName www.butterthlies.com ServerAdmin sales@butterthlies.com DocumentRoot /usr/www/APACHE3/APACHE3/site.virtual/htdocs/customers ErrorLog /usr/www/APACHE3/APACHE3/site.virtual/IP-based/logs/error_log TransferLog /usr/www/APACHE3/APACHE3/site.virtual/IP-based/logs/access_log </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost 192.168.123.2:8080> ServerName sales-IP.butterthlies.com ServerAdmin sales@butterthlies.com DocumentRoot /usr/www/APACHE3/APACHE3/site.virtual/htdocs/salesmen ServerName sales.butterthlies.com ErrorLog /usr/www/APACHE3/APACHE3/site.virtual/IP-based/logs/error_log TransferLog /usr/www/APACHE3/APACHE3/site.virtual/IP-based/logs/access_log </VirtualHost>
The Listen
directives tell Apache to watch ports
80 and 8080. If you set Apache going and access
http://www.butterthlies.com, you arrive on port
80, the default, and see the customers’ site; if you
access http://www.butterthlies.com:8080, you get the salespeople’s ...
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