What is the difference of subdomain, name-based & ip-based

[cscheong]

I am confused about the meaning of subdomain, name-based virtual host & ip-based virtual host. I wanted to setup a subdomain such as sub.domain.com in the same ip as my domain.com. Where should I look for related infomation on setting up subdomain, name-based virtual host or ip-based virtual host? Thanks.

[Zoist]

Originally posted by cscheong:
I wanted to setup a subdomain such as sub.domain.com in the same ip as my domain.com.

That would be called a name-based domain.
A subdomain is basically what you said 'sub.domain.com'

An ip based virtual host, is a host which has it's own ip address pointing to the domain.
In very old browsers, they don't support name-based domains.
The latest Netscape, IE & other browsers support this though.

Check out the Apache Web site (http://httpd.apache.org/) for more info about this :-)

[Zoist]

Btw, if you have your own IP address, you can get free DNS services from MyDomain (http://www.mydomain.com/)

Good luck.. ;-)