Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 09/21/07 11:29

The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> 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.

No. You can only have one instance of Apache running on port 80 on a
single machine.

Virtual hosting works because that one instance has several hosts
defined. But it is still only one instance.

Load balancing works because the instances of Apache are on different
systems.

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