Apache.

Virtual hosts.

Need I say more? How slick is that?

I’ve been running Netscape (nee iPlanet…or is it SunOne now??) Server on my local Windows box for years, simply because I was working at a place that ran Netscape (on Solaris, however). Seemed to make sense to keep the same tools at work and home – I’m a big supporter of using the same tools.

Since I left that place, I still run Netscape just due to inertia. It works, does everything I need. No need to mess with anything else.

On my Linux boxes, of course, I run Apache (1.23, not v2.x). [UPDATE: Of course I mean 1.3.23….yeah, I’m number challenged….]

Every time I set up a virtual host on those boxes – and I only recently learned how to do this, simply because I never had a need for it – I’m amazed. So simple. So flexible. So sensible.

And for the all the IIS snobs out there (why would you be?), no, there are no icons to use to set up the virtual host. Just plain English words.

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