[SunHELP] basic query on http ports

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I can't give you specifics for solaris, but you can have both services
running on port 80 if you have a separate IP address aliased on the ethernet
interface for the second service (sometimes called virtual hosting).

Or, you can use the same IP address but two different ports (not what you
wanted, but it works).

Or, you can use a parsing engine to identify something in the URL to direct
them to the proper page. The parser runs on a webserver on port 80, but
retrieves the desired page by proxy (my company does this and it works
great, even at 6+ million hits per hour).

James Fogg, Network Engineer
Vicinity Corporation - New Hampshire
(603) 442-1751

~ -----Original Message-----
~ From: TAG DBA [mailto:dbatag at tatainfotech.com]
~ Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 4:56 AM
~ To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
~ Subject: [SunHELP] basic query on http ports
~ 
~ 
~ This must be a simple question ...
~ I have two applications both of which use  HTTP web servers. 
~ Users connect
~ to the respective web servers to use the applications.
~ As of now these applications reside on different Solaris 
~ servers. However
~ there is a need to host them on the same machine.
~ 
~ I believe that the default port for http is 80. Now I cant 
~ setup both web
~ servers to listen on 80 - lets say I set them up on ports 80 and 81
~ respectively.
~ Application A - Web Server A - listening on Port 80 -
~ http://SERVER1/index.htm
~ Application B - Web Server B - listening on Port 81 -
~ http://SERVER1:81/index.htm
~ 
~ What I want to know is that - can users to Application B 
~ connect to their
~ http server listening on port 81 without specifying the port 
~ number in the
~ line "http://SERVER:81/index.htm" ? Can something be 
~ configured onto the
~ Solaris Server OR into a DNS server to allow http requests to 
~ Application B
~ be automatically be redirected to web server on port 81  ?
~ 
~ Thanks and Regards,
~ ~aslam
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