[Coco] Re: Free websites (fwd)

[Richard E. Crislip]

Hi George R.:

*** Forwarded message, originally written by Richard E. Crislip on 01/27/2006 ***
The following is a response I recieved from one of my Linux buds. Chris is
very knowledgable and so i place a great deal of credance in what he has to
say. As you can see, i have asked him if you could commmunicate with him
dorectly because middlemen always muck things up 8-).

Hello Chris

Thanks for the answer, I'll pass it along. Would it be alright if I invited
George to post any further questions he may have along this line to this
M/L or is this your personal e-mail addresss?

On 01/27/2006, Chris Feyerchak wrote:
> In a nutshell, need more details.
>
> How is this fellow's hosting set up?  Is he contracting it out to
> somebody else?
>
> Creating web hosting subdomains requires two things:
> 1) a subdomain must be set up in the DNS system
> 2) the subdomain must be pointed to a webserver
>
> How he goes about doing this depends on what factors he has control
> over and how he is billed.
>
> In the old days, only one domain/subdomain could be assigned to a
> single web server, as the webserver would have no way of being able to
> tell which site to serve in response to initial requests (assuming all
> requests came to it over the standard HTTP port, port 80).
>
> Apache now has a feature that permits many virtual servers on one
> IP/port.  The server determines which page to serve based upon the
> domain name requested.  Thus, multiple subdomains could be pointed to a
> single web server's port 80, and the server would sort the mess out.
>  This strikes me as the route to go, assuming your buddy doesn't get
> charge extra for setting up virtual servers.  Each virtual server can
> have its own document root, each of which can point to disjoint
> directories in the servers file system.  Disjoint directories, that is,
> directories that are not nested within eachother, would allow access control
> at the file system level.
>
> Chris
>
> Quoting "Richard E. Crislip" <rcrislip at neo.rr.com>:
>
>> Hello ALUG Gurus:
>> 
>> 
>> >> On 01/25/2006, George Ramsower wrote:
>> >>>  I've been thinking on this for a couple of years....
>> >>>
>> >>>  I suppose my brain is in high gear tonight..or just nuts.
>> >>>
>> >>>  I have several websites I use for selling stuff. But none of them
>> >>>   is usy  enough to use up the bandwidth or memory allotted to
>> >>>   them. 've always wanted to offer some space (as a subdomain) on
>> >>>   one or ore of  these sites for Coco users. This question has
>> >>>  come up many imes before.
>> >>>
>> >>>  However, I don't know how to make it happen. If I give someone
>> >>>  access to a  subdomain, they inherently gain access to the main
>> >>> URL. > >>>  Can't do that!!!
>> >>>
>> >>>  Does someone here know how I can offer a free subdomain to a user
>> >>>  on Linux system without them getting into MY site?
>> 
>> I belong to another mail list and this question came up. It is over my
>> head so I received permission to repost it here. Maybe some of you
>> know the answer to George's quesion. If anyone is inclined to answer,
>> send it back to me since I'm sure onbody on this list is a member of
>> the CoCo list (except me). TIA
>
Regards
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