Intro for web servers

DG3 do at the moment native support 3 web server out of the box. The servers are Lighttpd, nginx and Apache. We use all server in virtual host mode, meaning that you can have more than one application hosted on one server. We use name based virtual hosting. This means that you can only reach a DG3 application by a unique real name. If you attempt to use the ip address or another name for your server, you will only see a message telling you that this is not a recognized name for an application on this server. This is why you must enter a real name pointing to 127.0.0.1 when you want to test a server on your local computer.

For SSL we use SNI (Server Name Indication). This is a similar technique for SSL that is recognized by all modern browsers and servers.