[TriLUG] two addresses for a web server

[Andrew Perrin]

Hey, that's beautiful - thanks!

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Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu
Associate Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_
University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA



On Sat, 15 Dec 2007, Dave Sorenson wrote:

> I'd just add the servers internal IP to hosts files of the machines in the
> local network or if you're running internal DNS add it to that. That way
> any requests to http://adsl.blah.blah.bellsouth.net/gallery will use the
> internal address and never loop out and back.
>
> Dave
>
>> Folks, this has been nagging for a while - any suggestions welcome.
>>
>> At home I have a static-IP DSL hookup from BellSouth, which lets me (among
>> other things) make family photos available via gallery to other family
>> members around the country. This is a Nice Thing (tm) and I want to keep
>> it.
>>
>> The problem is that gallery insists on rewriting the URL it's given to a
>> canonical hostname. That, in turn, means that all clients of the gallery
>> -- including the machine it lives on and other machines on my home network
>> -- have to access the gallery server via its "outside" IP address, with
>> the accompanying downgrade in speed.  What I'd like is for internal
>> machines to be able to use the http://joehill.perrins/gallery address and
>> external ones to have to use   .
>> any thoughts on how to make it listen on both addresses at once?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andy
>>
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>> Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu -
>> http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu
>> Associate Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_
>> University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
>>
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