Red Hat Linux 6: Visual QuickPro Guide

Using Virtual Hosting

Your Red Hat Linux 6 Apache Web server can easily host multiple sites. The term for this is virtual hosting.

Very heavily visited Web sites need dedicated servers. In fact, it is usual to have a "farm" of many Web servers dedicated to the top 100 Web sites. But the run-of-the-mill Web site—however near and dear it may be to its creator's heart—is very different. It rarely generates enough traffic to use substantial resources on even a single Linux server.

This being the case, those responsible for hosting multiple Web sites—for example, many ISPs—tend to rely on virtual hosting.

To add a virtual host:

1.	Log on as root.
2.	Open the Linux Configuration applet.
3.	In the Apache Web Server section, click Virtual Domains. ...