[PLUG] Browsers, Numeric IPs, and apache Virtual Hosts

Keith Lofstrom keithl at gate.kl-ic.com
Fri May 4 00:12:33 UTC 2012


Apache uses virtual hosts to support many different URLs on
one machine on one IP address.  When you connect to apache
with your browser, the browser provides enough information
to Apache to give you the URL you want.

Question:  If the URL is not in the DNS system, and all you
have is the IP address (say, 1.2.3.4) and the name of the
virtual (say, foobar.example.org ), how do you use firefox
(or other browser) to tell apache at 1.2.3.4 to serve the
foobar.example.org content, or any of the other specific
URLs served by virtual hosts on that machine?

The best way is to provide good DNS, of course, but that
isn't available if all you control is a user account and
a browser.

Keith  

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