IP assignment for virtual webhosting

On Thu, 11 May 2000, Daniel Roesen wrote:

> On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 04:37:08PM +0200, henning.brauer at bsmail.de wrote:
> > There was a solution for this on this list a few days ago...

> Sure, but you're screwed if you you auto-generate your zonefiles and
> VHost-configs from databases and you want to move many VHosts...

And this solution also breaks some web sites - you can't redirect POSTs
(imagine a site that has forms linking to it from all over the web - you
simply can't change them all). And besides, I've seen many sites that use
full-blown URLs in their local <form> tags. And, after this kind of a
change, you have to keep the www2.example.com "alive" forever<tm>.

(and I'm not even talking about the customer's point of view - he
certainly isn't pleased to find out that suddenly his website has
mystically "moved" from www.example.com to www2.example.com, as said by
the Address -field of his web browser)





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