Hi,

This may be a dumb question, but the following not clear to me:

I want to host a couple of public vanity web sites. Just a couple. I don't want to run DNS at all if I can help it. One is my domain, another for running another for a crazy site idea I had. If I get my dns/domain provider to point both domains to my server, then what I -think- should happen on my server is:

/etc/network/interfaces
Add a second virtual IP address off of eth0.
eth0 192.168.XX.YY
#static IP and everything else I need to add

eth0:1 192.168.XX.YY+1
#static IP and ...

/etc/hosts
revise file for two IP/names.
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.XX.YY Myvanitydomain.com
192.168.XX.YY+1 Mycrazywebsite.com

/etc/apache2/virtual-hosts
myvanitydomain.com pointing to /home/dir1
mycrazysite.com pointing to /home/dir2.

Firewall
Currently my firewall correctly forwards webserver traffic to my server where a single place holder sits. I don't think I need to do anything with the firewall.

Let me know if my logic/steps are right.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Michael

hmmm, not really where you want to be going at all really... not sure how multiple ip's are supposed to help you on an internal LAN. if you had multiple *public* ip's then that's a different A record in DSN for each domain, which is fine, but under a private LAN they're no use unless your router can proxy at http level.

essentially all you need to do is read up on virtualhosts a bit more and you'll see it's actaully a *lot* easier to do than you think. a virtualhost will take the host header of an http request and match that to a different site, so one ip is all you need.

That's great. Easier is better.

Thanks a whole lot.