[Nottingham] Vhosts problem

Robert Ross rross at dmu.ac.uk
Wed Feb 9 14:48:46 GMT 2005


Hi Paul,

> One thing I was caught out by with this, is that if DNS is 
> broken/unreachable at the time Apache is started, it breaks.
> 
 
> I tend to hard-code of the IP address here to avoid this;  eg:
> 
>   <VirtualHost 1.2.3.4>
>     ...
> 
> Although you will need to update this during migration.

As I am only testing this on the development server I need to keep things a
little more fluid, and hard coding IPs would cause problems when I wanted to
move it over to the main server.  

Cheers for the input,

Robb



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