[Gloucs] apache virtual hosts

[Dave Addison]

In message <200409181730.04494.richard at the-sett.nildram.co.uk>, Richard 
Mellersh <richard at the-sett.nildram.co.uk> writes
>Guy,
>Thanks for the reply, it's not yet sorted, in fact it's worse.
>
>At the bottom I've copied the original mail but ignore the "please feel free
>to try it... " bit - it doesn't.
>
>I suppose it is "mucking around" but I REALLY want it to work from outside but
>without DNS yet (I don't know how or how much it is to do DNS).  What I
>thought would work is if I give friends/ colleagues etc an address such as
>http://195.112.17.79/site1 or http://195.112.17.79/site2 I could somehow use
>apache to redirect these requests to various directories.
Apache virtual hosting is either IP based (which isn't much help as you 
only have one IP address) or name based. Name based allows you to have 
multiple hosts on one IP and the example config Guy posted was for this.

DNS doesn't cost anything. http://www.dyndns.org offer static and 
dynamic DNS entries which you can use to point multiple host names to 
your external IP address. They also have links to update clients which 
will automatically update the entries if you have a dynamic IP address 
and it changes.

I've used them for a couple of years now without trouble using ddclient 
to update the records. I'm not sure if it will handle retrieving the 
interface address from an IPCOP box though.
-- 
Dave Addison
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