BindAddress Directive
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Purpose
This is the second method for providing virtual host support. This
allows for greater flexibility in configuration specific to each host,
but is also more wasteful of resources. This method works by telling
the server to only listen to a single address. This means that you
need a separate copy of the server running for each virtual host address.
Syntax
BindAddress servername
Where servername is a DNS name that maps to a single IP address,
or an IP address.
Virtual Host
This directive is incompatible with VirtualHost configuration. You
cannot run both a BindAddress server and a VirtualHost server on the
same machine.
Default
The Default is INADDR_ANY, which is listen to all addresses.
Examples
BindAddress 127.0.0.1
This would cause the server to only respond to connects to localhost.
BindAddress *
This would cause the server to respond to connects to any address. This
is the default.
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10-02-95