THE VIRTUAL SERVER HANDBOOK

Chapter

7

The Virtual Web

Service

The Virtual Web Service provides all the power your company needs (and

plenty of bandwidth) to make exciting presentations on the Internet, attract

additional clientele, and effectively conduct electronic commerce.

The Virtual Web Service is based on the Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

(HTTP). You can use the Virtual Web Service to create an Internet presence

that reaches millions of online customers. Ordinarily, creating an Internet

presence requires maintaining a dedicated Web server and an expensive

high speed Internet connection. However, with Virtual Web Server, you do

not need to hassle with this extra cost in equipment and employees.

The Virtual Server saves you money, and enables you to present a more

professional Web site to your customers. With Virtual Web Server, your

home page address appears as www.yourdomain.com (not

www.some.isp/~yourdomain like a non virtual shared service or web mall).

This chapter contains information on setting up your virtual web service by

explaining the following:

Using Virtual Web Server software

Understanding the Virtual Web Service directory structure

Maintaining Virtual Web Server Configuration Files

Using Apache Loadable Modules

Understanding Virtual Hosting

Adding Additional Domains

Adding Virtual Hosts to 

httpd.conf

Using other resources for additional information

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