Hi all,

Just wondering if it's possible to do virtual hosting without a registered domain name. I'm running slackware 13 and just trying to do it like this in my vhost config:

192.168.15.149/test1.php

and

192.168.15.149/test2.php

Thanks

The whole point of virtual hosting is so you don't need a new IP address for every domain. The client requests a specific site, and the host returns the site that is requested.

Since you don't have a domain name, all you're doing is making different php pages on the same server.

so is it possible? is there any work around that I can run virtual host on my machine w/o a real registered domain name?

Thanks in advance

Technically, I guess you could if you had more than one IP address. Each IP could be a separte vhost.

But in the example you gave, you are specifying the same host: 192.168.15.149. The only differences are *which* php files you are requesting from the host, but the host is the same.

What exactly are you trying to achieve here?

Hi Nicedream,

Thanks for the quick reply. I only want to run two virtual test server in one machine. Since I don't want to register a domain name yet I was hoping that I could use ip addressing/local address for now. Now that you mentioned "same host" it gave me an idea that it's almost impossible. What I'm thinking now is adding another NIC onto my machine. Still I'm not sure if it will work but I'll try and I'll let you know what happen.


Ciao

FYI: You can have multiple IP addresses listening on the same physical NIC.

Also, You may be able to do virtual hosting on the same IP using different ports for each vhost. I just thought of that.

I think you can do what you want to do in two different ways.

• Use /etc/hosts to assign two names to one machine. Of course this will only be accessible on machines that have a modified /etc/hosts file.
• Use a free service such as No-IP, ChangeIP, or FreeDNS to assign multiple real DNS names to one IP address--even a local IP.

I'm not sure what the OP is trying to achieve that can't be done equally well by just putting each site in its own directory.

I just had a peek on one of KenJackson's link and I think I'll try free dns. I really have a feeling that it would solve the problem....

Ciao for now... I'll keep you guys posted.

okay guys,

I have obtained two subdomains from freedns they are

slackpro.mooo.com
and
grocer.mooo.com

are these okay to be virtual hosted? coz I have enabled "include vhost" from my httpd.conf and modify httpd-vhost as necessary but every time I point my browser to one of my site the apache is pointing at the default web page apache has that say's "it work's".

domain names i think are okay coz when I try them w/o enabling vhost they are displaying the good index from where I point httpd.conf.

I really think there's just a little bit configuration missing...


thanks in advance

You are probably, right. My brief attempt at virtual hosting convinced me that it's tricky.

BTW, did you know that you already have your IP in DNS? Most ISPs seem to register every address, though it's of limited use since you have to know the IP. Check out cable-12-110-7.b2b2c.ca.

can you post your configuration?

Hi Ken,

Yes, DNS is connected to my IP already. I did this yesterday:
in windozeee zzz......

>nslookup

>server ns1.afraid.org
=Default server: ns1.afraid.org
address: 67.19.72.206

>slackpro.mooo.org
=Server: ns1.afraid.org
address: 67.19.72.206

=name: slackpro.mooo.com
address: 72.12.110.7

same result if I do it with the other one which is grocers.mooo.org


Hi nowonmai,

I'll post my config when I get home but I'm pretty sure that I only modify as little as I could in htttpd.conf and httpd-vhost.com aside from creating a totally different folder for those two sites. Instead of putting it somewhere in var/www/httpd/public_html or something like the default folder that apache created I put it in /usr/local/public_www/site1 and site2 which of course I pointed my httpd-vhost.conf to those folders. Note that I did not modify anything in httpd.conf aside from enabling httpd-vhost.conf somewhere in the last part of the script.

anyways... I'll post my config tonight.


Thanks guys

One more thing people... How important is "serveralias" in this case?
do I have to add lines in "hosts" config?

thanks

Do I need to use "web forward" like the one in afraid.org? I have read a thread just now here in linuxquestions and I think we do have a similar problem.

Thanks