Deploying Virtual Servers; Example 1: Default Configuration - Netscape ENTREPRISE SERVER 6.1 - 08-2002 ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Deploying Virtual Servers

Enterprise Server's virtual server architecture is very flexible. A server instance can
have any number of listen sockets, both secure and non-secure. You can associate
any number of virtual servers with these sockets through connection groups. You
can have both IP-address-based and URL-host-based virtual servers.
In addition, you can group virtual servers with similar settings into any number of
virtual server classes. All virtual servers in a virtual server class share the same
request processing instructions in
Every virtual server can (but does not have to) have its own list of ACLs, its own
mime.types
This design gives you maximum flexibility to configure the server for a variety of
applications. The following examples discuss some of the possible configurations
available for Enterprise Server.

Example 1: Default Configuration

After a new installation of the Enterprise Server, you have one server instance. This
server instance has just one listen socket listening on port 80 (or whatever you
selected at installation) of any IP address to which your computer is configured.
Some mechanism in your local network establishes a name-to-address mapping for
each of the addresses to which your computer is configured. In the following
example, the computer has two network interfaces: the loopback interface (the
interface that exists even without a network card) on address
ethernet interface on address
The name
configured to listen on port 80 on any address to which that machine is configured
(
ANY:80
As there are no IP-address-based virtual servers in the default configuration, the
only connection group is the default one. All connections pass through to virtual
server
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0.0.0.0:80
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obj.conf
.
10.0.0.1
via DNS. The listen socket is
10.0.0.1
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