From: Ruediger Pluem When Apache starts, it binds to some port and address on
the local machine and waits for incoming requests. By default,
- it listens to all addresses on the machine. However, it needs to
- be told to listen on specific ports, or to listen on only selected
- addresses, or a combination. This is often combined with the
- Virtual Host feature which determines how Apache responds to
+ it listens to all addresses on the machine. However, it may need to
+ be told to listen on specific ports, or only on selected
+ addresses, or a combination of both. This is often combined with the
+ Virtual Host feature, which determines how Apache responds to
different IP addresses, hostnames and ports. The For example, to make the server accept connections on both
- port 80 and port 8000, use:Listen
directive tells the server to accept
- incoming requests only on the specified port or
+ incoming requests only on the specified ports or
address-and-port combinations. If only a port number is
specified in the Listen
directive, the server
@@ -61,22 +61,22 @@
addresses and ports.
Listen 80
Listen 8000
To make the server accept connections on two specified - interfaces and port numbers, use
+To make the server accept connections on port 80 for one interface, + and port 8080 on another, use
Listen 192.170.2.1:80
Listen 192.170.2.5:8000
IPv6 addresses must be surrounded in square brackets, as in the +
IPv6 addresses must be enclosed in square brackets, as in the following example:
A growing number of platforms implement IPv6, and
APR supports IPv6 on most of these platforms,
- allowing Apache to allocate IPv6 sockets and handle requests which
- were sent over IPv6.
@@ -89,26 +89,26 @@
One complicating factor for Apache administrators is whether or
not an IPv6 socket can handle both IPv4 connections and IPv6
connections. Handling IPv4 connections with an IPv6 socket uses
IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses, which are allowed by default on most
- platforms but are disallowed by default on FreeBSD, NetBSD, and
- OpenBSD in order to match the system-wide policy on those
- platforms. But even on systems where it is disallowed by default, a
+ platforms, but are disallowed by default on FreeBSD, NetBSD, and
+ OpenBSD, in order to match the system-wide policy on those
+ platforms. On systems where it is disallowed by default, a
special configure
parameter can change this behavior
for Apache.
On the other hand, on some platforms such as Linux and Tru64 the +
On the other hand, on some platforms, such as Linux and Tru64, the
only way to handle both IPv6 and IPv4 is to use
mapped addresses. If you want Apache to handle IPv4 and IPv6 connections
with a minimum of sockets, which requires using IPv4-mapped IPv6
addresses, specify the --enable-v4-mapped
configure
option.
--enable-v4-mapped
is the default on all platforms but
+
--enable-v4-mapped
is the default on all platforms except
FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, so this is probably how your Apache was
built.
If your platform supports it and you want Apache to handle IPv4 and
- IPv6 connections on separate sockets (i.e., to disable IPv4-mapped
+ IPv6 connections on separate sockets (i.e., to disable IPv4-mapped
addresses), specify the --disable-v4-mapped
configure
option. --disable-v4-mapped
is the
default on FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.
Listen
does not implement
- Virtual Hosts. It only tells the
- main server what addresses and ports to listen to. If no
+
The Listen
directive does not implement
+ Virtual Hosts - it only tells the
+ main server what addresses and ports to listen on. If no
<VirtualHost>
directives are used, the server will behave
- the same for all accepted requests. However,
+ in the same way for all accepted requests. However,
<VirtualHost>
can be used to specify a different behavior
- for one or more of the addresses and ports. To implement a
+ for one or more of the addresses or ports. To implement a
VirtualHost, the server must first be told to listen to the
address and port to be used. Then a
<VirtualHost>
section
- should be created for a specified address and port to set the
+ should be created for the specified address and port to set the
behavior of this virtual host. Note that if the
<VirtualHost>
is set for an address and port that the
diff --git a/docs/manual/bind.xml.de b/docs/manual/bind.xml.de
index b12a82e541..65e97fa55e 100644
--- a/docs/manual/bind.xml.de
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