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• Full IP address — Allow access to a speciﬁc IP address.

• A subnet — Such as 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0

• A network CIDR speciﬁcation — such as 10.3.0.0/16

Figure 13-7. Directory Settings

If you check the Let .htaccess ﬁles override directory options, the conﬁguration directives

in the .htaccess ﬁle take precedence.

13.3. Virtual Hosts Settings

You can use the Apache Conﬁguration Tool to conﬁgure virtual hosts. Virtual hosts

allow you to run different servers for different IP addresses, different host names,

or different ports on the same machine. For example, you can run the website for

http://www.your_domain.com and http://www.your_second_domain.com on the same

Apache server using virtual hosts. This option corresponds to the

VirtualHost

directive for the default virtual host and IP based virtual hosts. It corresponds to the

NameVirtualHost directive for a name based virtual host.

The Apache directives set for a virtual host only apply to that particular virtual host. If a di-

rective is set server-wide using the Edit Default Settings button and not deﬁned within the

virtual host settings, the default setting is used. For example, you can deﬁne a Webmaster

email address in the Main tab and not deﬁne individual email addresses for each virtual

host.

Apache Conﬁguration Tool includes a default virtual host as shown in Figure 13-8. Refer to

Section 13.3.1.1.1 for details about the default virtual host.