2 (Web) Servers on 1 PC

[iceangel89]

can i setup 2 servers to use 2 different Loopback IPs?

eg
127.0.0.1 IIS7.5
127.0.0.2 Apache

something like that? this is so that i can specify in the hosts file something like

127.0.0.1 iis
127.0.0.2 apache

i cant do something like ... cant specify ports in hosts file ...

127.0.0.1:80 iis
127.0.0.1:81 apache

 

[Generator]

Yeah sure you can...




I'm not sure why you would want to though. Twice the resources, twice the risks, twice the amount of things to go wrong... I could go on but I won't.

Don't know the in's & out's of IIS but with Apache you could just use one server and setup a virtual host on port 81 in the vhosts config file as well as the default document root on port 80. Like so...

    <VirtualHost *:81>
    DocumentRoot "c:/server/site2"
    ServerName [URL="http://www.site2.com"]www.site2.com[/URL]
    </VirtualHost>

Theres no need to edit the windows host file at all aswell for this. If you want both sites 'live' don't forget to port forward if your machine sits behind a router, and dont forget your firewall exceptions.

Hope this helps somewhat!

 

[iceangel89]

hmm the reason why i want that is just for testing ... and i sometimes feel like trying out ASP.NET MVC apart from just PHP