[AfrICANN-discuss] A technical issue with the AfriNIC survey?

Adamou Nacer adamou.nacer at gmail.com
Thu Oct 11 16:10:22 SAST 2012


Hi Seun,
maybe you have the right answer. In fact, even if there are many 
websites served by the same IP address, http servers like apache can 
differentiate them based on the name of the website. So adding a CNAME 
record in the DNS + a virtualhost in the apache config and we have it.
@+


Le 11/10/2012 15:04, Seun Ojedeji a écrit :
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 2:49 PM, SM <sm at resistor.net 
> <mailto:sm at resistor.net>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Adamou,
>
>     At 06:11 11-10-2012, Adamou Nacer wrote:
>
>         will this be different with many IPv4 addresses? I don't
>         really understand the link between the two. This issue is
>         about the port number,  not the IP address I think.
>
>
>     If there's more than one web server, the company would either have
>     to assign an IPv4 address for each server or use a different port
>     for each web service which has to be accessible from the Internet.
>
>
> In addition it could also be that there is already another application 
> running on the apache default (port 80) such as Nginx and having less 
> server resource, they were forced to use another port. These are all 
> assumption as those that set it up will be able to best explain why 
> they went 8080 route.
> I must note that Adamou has commented in a way that deserve a 
> response, hence the reason why i am adding my voice to this.
>
> Cheers!
>
>
>
>     Regards,
>     -sm
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