[Xitami] Multi server issue

[Hogan]

how much more simple could you make it RO, awesome, if he can't 
understand this then it is time to google TCP/IP  hehehehe

R O wrote:
> Jesus Criminy - this is entertaining.  Had no idea my questions were 
> going to spur such passionate responses. 
>
> But, in a nutshell - Ports are IP based.  One range of ports per IP 
> address.  So if you have 3 IP addresses on one NIC, then theoretically 
> you have 3X ports available.  And I say 'theoretically' because it 
> depends on how the application is using the IP addresses.  I thought I 
> covered all this in my first response.
>
> However, for those of you who know that TCP Port 80 is per IP address, 
> then please help me understand what I might be doing wrong or where I 
> can look at that is causing a conflict.  In the past, I am pretty 
> confident I had two or three instances of xitami running on Port 80, 
> each on its own IP address (all on the SAME NIC) but can't recall 
> what, if anything, special I did to get it working.  Its been a while.
>
> I have come up with a solution that fixed my original issue of needing 
> a second production server to begin with, however I would still like 
> to move forward with a second server as a test server running on Port 
> 80.  Port 80 is important, and not using some other port, because then 
> my new code can be tested identically to how it would run before 
> making it the production code.  As well, alternate ports other than 
> port 80 can cause some outbound firewall issues that I would rather 
> not deal with.
>
> Config one:
> /xitami/defaults.cfg
>      * IP : 192.168.20.20
>      * Service-Name: Xitami Production Server
>      * port:0
>
> /xitamitest/defaults.cfg
>      * IP : 192.168.20.30
>      * Service-Name: Xitami Test Server
>      * port:0
>
> On the test server I even went so far as to copy the xiwinnt.exe file 
> to xiwintest.exe thinking that might help prevent any "service" based 
> conflicts (within Windows 2003 Server).  This did nothing, and the 
> test server would not initialize until I changed it to Port:5080 (or 
> anything other than port 80).  In addition, if I comment out (#Port:0) 
> in the test server, the server service will actually start but nothing 
> will respond on that IP port 80. 
>
> Not certain whats going on but as basic as these configs should be, I 
> believe I may have discovered some kind of compatibility bug between 
> Xitami v2.4d9 and Windows 2003 Server.  I am going to test running 
> multiple copies on Windows XP under the same conditions to test if its 
> a 2003 Server issue.
>
> Comments?
>
>
> Russel P. Olinger
> rolinger1 at hotmail.com

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