Example 3: Intranet Hosting - Netscape ENTREPRISE SERVER 6.1 - 04-2002 ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Deploying Virtual Servers

Example 3: Intranet Hosting

A more complex configuration of the Enterprise Server is one in which the server
hosts a few virtual servers for an intranet deployment. For example, you have three
internal sites where employees can look up other users' phone numbers, look at
maps of the campus, and track the status of their requests to the Information
Services department. Previously (in this example), these sites were hosted on three
different computers that had the names
and
is.example.com
To minimize hardware and administrative overhead, you want to consolidate all
three sites into one Enterprise Server living on the machine
could set this up in two ways: using URL-host-based or IP-address-based virtual
servers. Both have distinct advantages and disadvantages.
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mapped to them.
Intranet hosting using URL-host-based virtual servers
,
phone.example.com
example.com
maps.example.com
. You