Through this page, you can configure some of the options which affect global URL construction. These options include:
Your server will use the name you give your server here as the central Uniform Resource Locator (URL) when users access your home page. An example URL is the URL for the home page of Netscape Communications,http://home.netscape.com/
. The server name is built from our
domain name, netscape.com
, and the name of our server,
home
. Be sure to include your domain name as well as the
machine name.
Your system administrator may have already set up a DNS alias for your
server such as www.subdomain.dom
. If this is the case,
then you should use that alias here. If not, you should use the machine's
name combined with your domain as the name.
For example, if your machine was named server
, and you were
part of the domain acme.com
, you would use the server name
server.acme.com
.
The machine your server runs on has a number of ports that the
machine uses to differentiate requests using different protocols. Just as
the standard Telnet port number is 23, the standard HTTP port number is 80,
and the standard HTTPS port is 443. You can choose any port number from
1 to 65535 - but you should be careful which number you pick:
/etc/services
to make sure
the port you choose is not already in use.
www.acme.com
, and you choose port 80, the URL to
your home page will be http://www.acme.com/
. However,
if you choose port 8080, then the URL to your home page will be
http://www.acme.com:8080/
.
If you have any doubts at all about which port number you should use,
you should probably use the standard port.
At times it may be desirable for your workstation to answer to two
URLs. For example, you may want to serve both
http://www.a.com/
and http://www.b.com/
from
one machine. Due to limitations in the HTTP protocol, this is
difficult. There is one trick to do this, however, which involves
causing your machine to think it must answer to more than one IP
address. This trick only works on certain systems.
If you have already set up your system to listen to multiple IP addresses and want to use this feature, you must tell this installation of the server which IP address it belongs to.