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On Sun, 02 Feb 1997 01:14:14 -0500, Ralph Doncaster (ralph@doncaster.on.ca.no.spam) wrote:
> I've got a Linux server running Apache httpd.
> It does virtual domains without separarate IP's quite nicely.
> What I want is virtual pop and shell services.

What you need cannot be done with any certainty yet. Even your apache that you
think you have working right now isn't really. For it to work, it needs to
speak http/1.1, but there are many people out there still using older browsers
which only speak http/1.0 -- they will never see any of your virtual domains.

As for mail, you could easily map mail addresses to other mail addresses (for
example, sales@acme.com could map to acsales@your.domain, and you would give
the user a login id of 'acsales' on your machine). However, there is no way to
have virtual shell machines using current available software (telnet doesn't
support it in any way -- you could hack the code, but I don't know where you'd
get code for the MS and Mac versions of telnet).

For your setup to truly work, you will need separate IPs. From what I
understand, there is work being done on new ways of virtual hosting which will
be transparent to the end users and the server admins, but I'm not sure when
the standards will emerge.


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