[ydl-gen] Apache web server & virtual hosts

[R. Hirschfeld]

> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 18:28:38 -0400
> From: "Christopher Murtagh" <christopher.murtagh at gmail.com>
> 
>  I can't imagine how old that client would have to be. We were using
> Name based virtual hosts on www.mcgill.ca when I started working there
> over 6 years ago and never had a complaint even then. Plus with the
> vast majoirity of shared hosting providers provide name based v-hosts
> (unless you need/pay for SSL), any client that didn't support it would
> be horribly broken for today's web.

Not the least because it would likely also have difficulty rendering
newer versions of HTML found on today's sites.  I too have only read
about this problem and never encountered it myself.  But if you need
to make a site work with obsolete legacy browsers, there's a
workaround described in the apache vhost docs.  Cf.:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/vhosts/name-based.html#compat

Ray