cl@isbd.net wrote:
What's the easiest and/or neatest way of sorting this out? Obviously my basic requirement is to make my slackware box think it's isbd.ltd.uk and to hide 84-45-228-40.no-dns-yet.enta.net completely.
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It's really only the HTTP issues that I want/need to resolve, can Apache virtual hosting do anything for me - I suspect not as that is only if I have multiple IP addresses *actually* resolving to my machine. [...]
HTTP/1.0 or later can cope fine with different web sites resolving to the same IP address. Learn about Apache Name-based Virtual Hosting at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/name-based.html
It won't allow SSL services in a very neat way because there's a circular problem: server needs to know its own hostname before connection in order to use the right SSL certificate, but the hostname being requested is sent in the request after the connection is made.
Hope that gets you started,