[thelist] web server setup

joel joel at spinhead.com
Sun Jan 20 13:44:41 CST 2002


|> joel,
|> 
|> I hope I'm not misunderstanding your post, but this seems 
|> like a very common situation.  If you are using IIS as your 
|> web server, then you only need to do two things:
|> 
|> 1.  Assign all four IP's to the NIC
|> 2.  Assign a different IP to each site on the server

Yup; done already. From outside the firewall I can only pass HTTP
traffic to ONE IP address, not four.

|> 
|> An alternative is to set up the DNS so that all sites have 
|> the same IP address then have IIS differentiate the sites 
|> based on the requested host. ie, www.mydomain1.com, 
www.mydomain2.com, etc

This would work, I think. I should be able to work it out, but pointers
would be most helpful. Thanks!

joel

|> If this is not what you want or need specifics on how to do the
aforementioned tasks, |> just ask.
|> 
|> -joshua






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