Virtual Hosting

[Don Harrop]

I don't know this for sure but I think web tracking software like WebTrends
can't track correctly because everyone is browsing to the same ip.  Can
anyone either back that up or blow my theory out of the water?

Don


> Just a WAG here (you're already doing more with apache than I've been
> able to play with ;-), but isn't ServerName what Apache is expecting in
> a "Host:" header from the requesting browser as the site name. So I
> would think you would want "travelcruise" (assuming your registered the
> domain obviously).  Although from reading the docs on name-based virtual
> hosts,
> http://www.apache.org/docs/vhosts/name-based.html
>
> since you're using a different IP address for this virtual host, than
> this section is the primary vhost for that IP, and will be returned
> regardless of what "host:" header is sent.  It'll only get you into
> trouble if you were to put another name-based vhost in with the same IP
> address, iow if the server names weren't fixed the travelcruise would
> always be returned.
>
> The neat thing about vhosts is that you could have only 1 public IP
> address, and support many different sites off the same rig just using
> different ServerName variables for each site's VirtualHost section.  At
> least I think it's neat, any drawbacks or limitations on this?