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Ubuntu Unleashed 2013 Edition: Covering 12.10 and 13.04, Eighth Edition
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Ubuntu Unleashed 2013 Edition: Covering 12.10 and 13.04, Eighth Edition

by Matthew Helmke
December 2012
Intermediate to advanced
888 pages
48h 24m
English
Sams
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Name-Based Virtual Hosts

Name-based virtual hosts enable you to run more than one host on the same IP address. You must add the names to your DNS as CNAMEs of the machine in question. When an HTTP client (web browser) requests a document from your server, it sends with the request a variable indicating the server name from which it’s requesting the document. Based on this variable, the server determines from which of the virtual hosts it should serve content.

Note

Some older browsers cannot properly access name-based virtual hosts because this is a feature of HTTP 1.1 and the older browsers are strictly HTTP 1.0 compliant. However, many other older browsers are partially HTTP 1.1 compliant, and this is one of the parts of HTTP 1.1 that most ...

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