What is virtual hosting?
What is virtual hosting? Virtual hosting is a method for hosting multiple domain names (with separate handling of each name) on a single server (or pool of servers). This allows one server to share its resources, such as memory and processor cycles, without requiring all services provided to use the same host name.
How do I create a virtual host?
- Step 1 — Create a conf file. Copy 000-default.com.conf to create a new file in /etc/apache2/sites-available : $ cd /etc/apache2/sites-available.
- Step 2 — Modify the new conf file. In the example.com.conf :
- Step 3 — Enabling a virtual host.
- Step 4— Enabling SSL.
- Step 5— Restart apache.
What is DNS virtual host?
Virtual hosting allows you to define host names to which servers or clusters respond. When you use virtual hosting you use DNS naming to specify one or more host names that map to the IP address of a WebLogic Server or cluster and you specify which Web Applications are served by each virtual host.
What is IP-based virtual hosting?
IP-based virtual hosting is a method to apply different directives based on the IP address and port a request is received on. Most commonly, this is used to serve different websites on different ports or interfaces.
