Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual page 2076

Hosting Multiple Search Sites Using One DNS Name
Using the Site Alias
If you are hosting a search service for two or more customers, you can name
each search site according to the organization or company name of each
customer and then use the &site query parameter when handling search
queries. One of the advantages of using the &site query parameter is that it
allows you to use a single DNS name.
For example, suppose your server's URL was searchit.novell.com. If you were
setting up search services for a company called Digital Airlines and another
company called DemoCity, you could host both services on your single server
and then simply include the &site=digitalairlines and &site=democity query
parameters within the search forms found on www.digitalairlines.com and
www.democity.com.
Queries would be sent from the search forms on each site to the following
URLs:
http://searchit.novell.com/NSearch/SearchServlet?site=digitalairlines
and
http://searchit.novell.com/NSearch/SearchServlet?site=democity
When defining a search site, you are required to give it a site name. But Web
Search administrators can also define an alias that can be used when
identifying a specific search site during a search request.
An alias name typically follows one of two conventions:
1. An IP address: This could be used either in the domain name portion of
a URL or be included in a search query using the &site query parameter.
Using an IP address in place of a domain name to select a search site only
works in a hardware virtual server configuration where each search site
has its own unique IP address.
2. Any other numeric or textual value that can be passed as the value of the
&site query parameter.
For most search sites, the best choice for a site name and site alias is the Web
server's domain name and IP address.
For more information about creating software and hardware virtual servers on
the NetWare Enterprise Web Server, see
on page 71.
"Setting Up Multiple Web Servers"
Creating and Managing Search Sites 147