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Re: proftpd + virtual hosts



Graham Ashton wrote:
> is it possible to do name based virtual hosting with proftpd? 
> 
> the documentation on the web site suggests not, and that you need to do
> IP address based virtual hosting instead. :(

Name-based virtual hosting in Apache is done by reading the headers of a
HTTP request:

GET /path/to/file.html HTTP/1.0
Host: www.virtualhost.com
[more headers]

Apache uses the Host header to determine which virtual server it should use.

In the FTP-protocol, there is no such header, thus name-based virtual
hosting isn't possible in FTP-servers.

IP-address-based virtual hosting is possible, because an ftpserver may bind
itself to a specific network interface, instead of all of them.


HTH,
 -Remco


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