[plug] Firewall

[Kim Covil]

> > As far as I remember the way virtual hosts work with the same IP
> > address is that an extra HTTP header is included with HTTP v1.1 that
> > gives the host name of the machine trying to be accessed...
> 
> I'm going to be a little bit pedantic here but ;) Apache supports Virtual
> Hosts, ie: with one server you can support multiple sites on *different* IP
> addresses. *Named* Virtual Hosts is required to do multiple sites on the same 
> IP address. One apache server can be configured to do both though. The 
> difference in the config file is a simple line which tells Apache which IP 
> address(es) are Named Virtual Hosts. 

True, which is why I said ".. the way virtual hosts work with the
same IP addess...", which though admittedly badly worded was meant
to mean "of the two ways virtual hosts can be used I am refering to
the case where it is using a single IP address"

Thanks for clearing up my wording...

Cheers

Kim

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