Both Netscape FastTrack and Enterprise support virtual software servers
(essentially, software domains). They've had this capability since V2.x.
All you do is setup the server to point different domain names to different
document roots. Then setup the DNS to resolve all the domain names to the
same IP address. HTTP 1.1-compliant browsers and the webserver do the rest.
There are some small gotchas involved, however. All the "virtual" domains
actually share the >>SAME<< physical document root. You must configure your
system to have a subdirectory off the main document root for each virtual
domain. For example,
Domain Name Document Root
----------- -------------
www.abc.com c:\docroot
www.def.com c:\docroot\def
www.ghi.com c:\docroot\ghi
Then, in the Netscape server manager, you setup the virtual software
servers as follows:
URL Host: Home Page:
-------------------- ----------
http://www.def.com def/
http://www.ghi.com ghi/
There is one more thing. Because all the domains (virtual software servers)
actually share the same document root, if you have subdirectories off of
the home-page directory (maybe for graphics), and you want to reference the
files in that subdirectory like this:
<IMG SRC="graphics/mypicture.gif">
then you MUST include the following HTML tag in the <HEAD></HEAD> section
of the page:
<BASE HREF="http://www.def.com/def/">
This tag must be included on every page at which anyone might _ENTER_ your
site. If you don't do this, the server won't be able to find the graphics
that are relatively referenced.
Another solution to this problem is to give absolute references for
everything.
<IMG SRC="http://www.def.com/def/graphics/mypicture.gif>
Always, seemed simpler to me to just put in the BASE tag.
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