Multiple FQDNs on one host

ddavidson19998 · 12-12-2014, 04:43 PM

How do I enable multiple Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDNs) on a single host? Do I simply make entries in /etc/hosts for each FQDN?

Ser Olmy · 12-12-2014, 05:30 PM

That depends on how you wish to use these names. If you simply want to be able to refer to the host by different names from within various applications running on that host, entries in /etc/hosts will do the trick.

jefro · 12-13-2014, 04:24 PM

A FQDN is a public name that you use generally from outside your lan. It is a way to access by name an IP address in the web. Hosts file is generally a way to have a lan client look up a name to ip.

So, if you want to host many web sites on a single server that has only one IP address then the normal way is to use host headers to direct to internal pages. Make a default page for older web browsers to direct to local.

Possible to use ip with ports too.