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From: Douglas@Beyond2000.co.uk (Douglas Reay)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Virtual Hosts for Apache under FreeBSD
Date: 1 May 1996 11:46:43 GMT
Organization: Beyond 2000 Ltd
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In article <4m5nei$ct2@goombay.irbs.com>, jc@irbs.com (John Capo) says:
>
>In article <4m57lg$374@news.cityscape.co.uk>,
>Douglas Reay <Douglas@Beyond2000.co.uk> wrote:
>>I am running an apache-0.8.14 web server on an intel PC under FreeBSD 2.1
>>
>>Apache can support virtual hosts.  IE if two ip numbers point to the machine
>>the server runs on, then the server will return a different home page depending
>>on which ip number was used to access it.
>>
>[...]
>>So ... does anybody have a FreeBSD port of the VIF patch, or otherwise
>>know how to set FreeBSD up to listen on multiple ip numbers? 
>>
>
>No patches needed.  ifconfig xx alias 1.2.3.4 netmask 0xffffffff
>
>where xx is the interface name. Man ifconfig for more details.
>
>John Capo                                                   jc@irbs.com
>IRBS Engineering                       FreeBSD Servers and Workstations
>(954) 792-9551                      Internet Consulting - ISP Solutions

Yep, that works.  I was thrown by the different interface name and
ifconfig formats compared with Solaris.

Thanks to everybody for their help.

Douglas Reay