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Subject: RE: [users@httpd] best practices - <virtualhosts> section or not?
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Thank you very much for your excellent reply.  Glad to
hear it is not at all unusual to not use VHs for the
main/default site. I agree, adding additional hosts
would definately require the use of VH blocks, unless
each one would get their own httpd.conf and run as a
seperate instance.

--- Boyle Owen <Owen.Boyle@swx.com> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Richard de Vries
> [mailto:richard_devries@yahoo.com] 
> > Sent: Montag, 13. M�rz 2006 14:59
> > To: users@httpd.apache.org
> > Subject: [users@httpd] best practices -
> <virtualhosts> section or not?
> > 
> > So I am trying to install this 3rd party
> application,
> > and it simply won't install without a
> "<virtualhost>"
> > section in my httpd.conf.
> > 
> > Since my web server is only running 1
> > webserver/instance ... I did not define a
> > <virtualhost> section.
> > 
> > So, I am kinda curious. Is it strange to not
> define a
> > virtualhost section? Is it a "best practice" to
> define
> > one anyway? What does everybody think?
> 
> If you don't *need* one, there's no reason to use
> one. Eg, if you have only one site.
> 
> As soon as you have more than one site, you *need*
> VHs (be they name-based, port-based or IP based).
> Some people think it's tidier and more symmetric to
> have every site in a VH. Others think it's better to
> have a "main" or "default" site outside all the VHs
> so have N-1 VHs.
> 
> It's up to you...
> 
> Rgds,
> Owen Boyle
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> may be ignored. 
> 
> > 
> >    Richard
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