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Mastering Linux Network Administration

You're reading from   Mastering Linux Network Administration Master the skills and techniques that are required to design, deploy, and administer real Linux-based networks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784399597
Length 260 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Setting up Your Environment FREE CHAPTER 2. Revisiting Linux Network Basics 3. Communicating Between Nodes via SSH 4. Setting up a File Server 5. Monitoring System Resources 6. Configuring Network Services 7. Hosting HTTP Content via Apache 8. Understanding Advanced Networking Concepts 9. Securing Your Network 10. Troubleshooting Network Issues Index

Setting up virtual hosts


It's very common for a single organization to host multiple sites. Each of these sites can live on their own server or virtual machine, but that's not very practical. Running just one site per server is very expensive and not very efficient. The concept of virtual hosts is that multiple sites can live on one web server, which saves infrastructure. Of course, it's always possible that you may have a website that generates so much traffic that sharing it with other high-traffic sites may not be a good idea, but when this is not the case, virtual hosts are recommended.

As mentioned before, /var/www is the default location where Apache looks for files to serve. If you're hosting multiple sites on one server, you would want to create a separate directory for each of them. For example, if you are hosting a website for a company named tryadtech.com and another for linuxpros.com, you could create the following directory structure:

/var/www/tryadtech.com/html
/var/www/linuxpros...
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