[X-Unix] Apache & ifconfig

[z.l]

On Oct 18, 2004, at 06:19, Eugene wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 11:52:37AM +0200, Jakob Peterhänsel wrote:
> :
> : On 18. okt 2004, at 8:35, Pedro fp wrote:
> :
> : >1. Should I have done anything differently?
> :
> : Why use all those IP addresses?? You can use ONE and then Virtual 
> Hosts
> : and get the same feature.
>
> In the Apache docs (and everywhere else on the Internet), this is known
> as "named-based virtual hosts".  It is better than in every way 
> IP-based
> virtual hosts, except for SSL issues (stupid Netscape for pulling an 
> M$).
>
> : The GUI [Off Topic?] way of adding more than one IP to an interface 
> in
> : X, is to select Network Port Configurations in the Show pop-up in
> : Network CP, select en1 and hit Duplicate. Then you can even give it a
> : name like "en1-host2.com" or something...
>
> The GUI method saves the IP aliases into the NetInfo database.  So the
> settings are preserved through restarts.  But using ifconfig manually,
> the settings are lost on restarts and the commands must be re-entered
> every time.