Hey I have red hat 9, and I want to host two sites on one machine. I want both sites to be independent. One is stlukesserviceleague.org and the other is arizonahealthquotes.com. I do not want to set up the machine so that one is virtual (i.e. something like stlukesserviceleague.arizonahealthquotes.com or something like that.) I want to set it up to where one is totally independent of the other, but on the same computer. How would i go about doing this with apache? Thanx guys, you rock!

Yes, you will need to use Virtual Host.

The term Virtual Host in Apache refers to the practice of running more than one web site (such as www.company1.com and www.company2.com) on a single machine.

Take a look at the Apache documentation for more information.
Also, there are some GUI tools such as WebMin which can help you configure Apache.

Apache 1.3
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/

Apache 2.0
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/

Thank you and where would i get webmin from?

Webmin
http://www.webmin.com/

You can also edit your httpd.conf file directly. The httpd.conf file lives in (RH) /etc/httpd/conf then use your favorite editor (vi, pico, joe...etc) and find the section named VirtualHost here is what your entries should look like:

<VirtualHost yourIP address:80>
DocumentRoot "/where/your/site/lives"
ServerName www.mysite1.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost yourIP address:80>
DocumentRoot "/where/your/site/lives"
ServerName mysite1.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost yourIP address:80>
DocumentRoot "/where/your/site/lives"
ServerName www.mysite2.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost yourIP address:80>
DocumentRoot "/where/your/site/lives"
ServerName mysite2.com
</VirtualHost>

Hope this helps.
Bieb

Actually it's not necessary to have separate virtual hosts for mysite.com and www.mysite.com. This can more easily be handled within the DNS server.

Also, at some point in your httpd.conf file *before* you define the virtual hosts, you will need

NameVirtualHost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

(Replace xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx with the IP address)

So you'd have

NameVirtualHost 10.0.0.1

<VirtualHost 10.0.0.1:80>
DocumentRoot /path/to/docs
Servername www.mysite.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 10.0.0.1:80>
DocumentRoot /path/to/docs
Servername www.myothersite.com
</VirtualHost>

There are a mess of other directives you can, and often should, use to further customize the virtual host. View the documentation for your version of Apache at http://httpd.apache.org/

The directive you need to use in this case is ServerAlias.

That will work fine if you only want to let people access the actual web site through www.mysite.com. However, if you want to allow other services to be accessed via www.mysite.com, you will need to use a CNAME record in the DNS server instead. For the purposes discussed here, though, ServerAlias will work as desired.

LOL well i'm totally confused now, but I guess i will just try everything you just suggested.