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Understanding Vhosts

  • 09-04-2014 03:42PM
    #1
    Kilgore__Trout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 454 ✭✭


    Hi all,

    Can someone help me understand how vhost limit works? Is it 1:1 (user:vhost capacity) or something else? My site has a forum, several pages, an imbedded youtube video, images, and an option to download a file. I'd like to get a feel for what sort of vhost allowance I may need.

    Thanks!


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  • #2
    colm_c
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,011 ✭✭✭colm_c


    Do you mean virtual host as in Apache Virtual Hosts?

    If so, vhosts work very simply, for every domain/subdomain/ip address you want to have on your server you add a vhost.

    e.g. if you want to have three websites running:

    www.mydomain1.com
    www.mydomain2.com
    mysubdomain.mydomain2.com

    And these are all different websites, then you have three vhosts

    if you want them to point to the same website (not a great idea, but possible) you can configure a single vhost to point both domains and the subdomain at a single directory on your server.

    If your website is just one domain, and has a bunch of stuff on it then you just need a single vhost which points to your directory with everything in it.


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