Causes the current httpd process to exit, which means for a time the server appears to be down, as in not serving any requests. Reload on the other side: /my/path/to/httpd reload. In this series of articles we’re going to set up an Apache Web Server and walkthrough the various Apache configurations and features. To start with this article will cover setting up a basic Apache server with the default out-of-the-box apache configurations. Announcement You can find all my latest posts on medium. You can follow along. Httpd is the Apache HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server program. It is designed to be run as a standalone daemon process. When used like this it will create a pool of child processes or threads to handle requests.
Running several name-based web sites on a single IP address.
Httpd Apache Windows
Your server has multiple hostnames that resolve to a single address, and you want to respond differently for www.example.com and www.example.org.
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Creating virtual host configurations on your Apache server does not magically cause DNS entries to be created for those host names. You must have the names in DNS, resolving to your IP address, or nobody else will be able to see your web site. You can put entries in your hosts file for local testing, but that will work only from the machine with those hosts entries.
The asterisks match all addresses, so the main server serves no requests. Due to the fact that the virtual host with ServerName www.example.com is first in the configuration file, it has the highest priority and can be seen as the default or primary server. That means that if a request is received that does not match one of the specified ServerName directives, it will be served by this first <VirtualHost>.
Httpd Apache Location
The above configuration is what you will want to use in almost all name-based virtual hosting situations. The only thing that this configuration will not work for, in fact, is when you are serving different content based on differing IP addresses or ports.
Apache Httpd 2.2
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You may replace * with a specific IP address on the system. Such virtual hosts will only be used for HTTP requests received on connection to the specified IP address.
However, it is additionally useful to use * on systems where the IP address is not predictable - for example if you have a dynamic IP address with your ISP, and you are using some variety of dynamic DNS solution. Since * matches any IP address, this configuration would work without changes whenever your IP address changes.