Re: [Boa-devel] name based virtual host

[Jon N. <jn...@bo...>]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Leendert Bottelberghs wrote:

> Hi, I'm interested in using boa as a high-load static content server. I
> would like to know if it is possible to configure boa with name based
> virtual hosts (like in apache), or does it require different ips?

This should work.

From the manpage:

 VHostRoot <directory>
        The root location for all virtually hosted data Comment  out  to
        disable.   Incompatible  with 'Virtualhost' and 'DocumentRoot'!!
        Given VHostRoot /var/www, requests to  host  foo.bar.com,  where
        foo.bar.com  is  ip a.b.c.d, become /var/www/a.b.c.d/foo.bar.com
        Hostnames are "cleaned", and must conform to the rules specified
        in rfc1034, which are be summarized here:

        Hostnames  must start with a letter, end with a letter or digit,
        and have  as  interior  characters  only  letters,  digits,  and
        hyphen.  Hostnames must not exceed 63 characters in length.

 DefaultVHost <hostname>
        Define  this in order to have a default hostname when the client
        does not specify one, if using VirtualHostName.  If  not  speci-
        fied,  the  word  "default"  will be used for compatibility with
        older clients.

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Jon Nelson <jn...@bo...>