Configuring name-based virtual hosting
As you may recall from our discussions surrounding DNS in Chapter 8, Managing Domains and DNS a user's browser needs to translate a website's hostname to its IP address via DNS lookups before it can connect and retrieve the desired web content. You may also recall that this doesn't have to be a one-to-one mapping-more than one site can resolve to the same IP address. Apache is flexible enough so that the same server can serve more than one site by a configuration known as name-based virtual hosting.
This recipe teaches you how to set up name-based virtual hosting. Each site has it's own configuration (often kept in its own configuration file for better organization). Based on the site name that appears in ...
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