Recipe 4.5 Mixing Address-Based and Name-Based Virtual Hosts

Problem

You have multiple IP addresses assigned to your system, and you want to support more than one web site on each address.

Solution

Provide a NameVirtualHost directive for each IP address, and proceed as you did with a single IP address:

ServerName 127.0.0.1
NameVirtualHost 10.0.0.1
NameVirtualHost 10.0.0.2

<VirtualHost 10.0.0.1>
    ServerName TheSmiths.name
    DocumentRoot "C:/Apache/Sites/TheSmiths"
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 10.0.0.1>
    ServerName JohnSmith.name
    DocumentRoot "C:/Apache/Sites/JustJohnSmith"
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 10.0.0.2>
    ServerName TheFergusons.name
    DocumentRoot "C:/Apache/Sites/TheFergusons"
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 10.0.0.2>
    ServerName DoriFergusons.name
    DocumentRoot "C:/Apache/Sites/JustDoriFerguson"
</VirtualHost>

Discussion

Using the address of the server, rather than the wildcard * argument, makes the virtual hosts listen only to that IP address. However, you should notice that the argument to <VirtualHost> still must match the argument to the NameVirtualHost with which they are connected.

See Also

• http://httpd.apache.org/docs/vhosts/