[ale] Virtual Servers

[Fulton Green]

This is EXACTLY (or close to) how the legacy EarthLink (i.e., MindSpring)
user home pages work. http://home.MindSpring.com/~username and
http://username.home.MindSpring.com/ work equally well, despite
anyusername.home.MindSpring.com resolving to the same singluar IP address.
If the server speaks HTTP/1.1, the exact website can be passed to the
server and the properly mapped pages returned. If their system isn't
fancy enough, you'd think they could at least bounce a request for
www.somedomainname.com to www.somedomainname.com/yourfolder .

On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 11:52:22AM -0700, Kevin O'Neill Stoll wrote:
> Got a question about virtual servers.
> 
> Let's say that I have 2 ways to get to my web site. One domain name,
> domainname.com and anotherdomainname.com/foldername.
> 
> Either way I get the same index page initially. The domainname.com is a
> shared IP address with a bunch of other web sites on it. Shouldn't they be
> able to point domainname.com at the anotherdomainname.com/foldername?
> 
> I asked this question of the web server admin but I get lot's of silly
> answers as to why they can't do this. It seems as though it is a simple
> alias to a directory for my web site content. I hope this made sense or
> dollars even :p

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