Re: httpserver configuration

[Evan Harris <auctionitis@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Scott

my guess is this came about because if memory serves, you couldn't do
virtual hosts on the original HTTP server; this meant you were forced
to either provide an additional IP address for each host or use a
different port and I guess people just carried on doing this when
Apache became available.

> > 2)I understand that two properties make a server instance unique, the host
> > name, and the port.  We only have on iseries(host),
>
> I don't understand why people run multiple web instances in production
> (it makes sense in development, so each developer can have a separate
> sandbox... but in prod, there should only be one instance, IMHO)
>
> What makes a unique server instance is that there's a separate copy of
> Apache running with a separate configuration file, etc.   It's true that
> incoming connections decide which instance they are connecting to by
> choosing which IP address and port they connect to.