Posted by The Natural Philosopher on 09/21/07 09:07

Jerry Stuckle wrote:

>> You cannot, for example, have multiple instances of Apache listening on
>> port 80 of a single IP address, and I thought assigning 255 IP addresses
>> to a single web server went out with browsers that don't understand
>> HTTP/1.1 and the Host: header.
>>
>
> I didn't say anything about multiple instances on port 80, did I?
>

Actually you can, and often do, have multiple instances of Apache
(effectively) listening on port 80..

That's how virtual hosting and load balancing works.

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