GenHTTP

Virtual Hosting

Runs on your machine

Hosts multiple websites, one per domain, on a single server.

Virtual Hosts Documentation GenHTTP.Modules.VirtualHosting Package on NuGet

This sample runs on your machine only. It needs domains of its own - browsers resolve blog.localhost and shop.localhost to your machine.

Clone GenHTTP, let Playground/Program.cs serve VirtualHostingSample.Create() and start it with dotnet run - then try the commands below.

VirtualHostingSample.cs36 lines 
using GenHTTP.Api.Content;
using GenHTTP.Api.Protocol;

using GenHTTP.Modules.IO;
using GenHTTP.Modules.Redirects;
using GenHTTP.Modules.VirtualHosting;

public static class VirtualHostingSample
{

    public static IHandlerBuilder Create()
    {
        /*
         *
         * Hosts multiple websites on a single server, one per domain. Browsers
         * resolve *.localhost to your machine, so you can try this locally:
         *
         *   http://blog.localhost:8080/
         *   http://shop.localhost:8080/
         *   http://localhost:8080/  (redirects to the blog)
         *
         * See https://genhttp.org/documentation/content/handlers/virtual-hosts/
         *
         */

        var blog = Content.From(Resource.FromString("<h1>My Blog</h1>").Type(ContentType.TextHtml));

        var shop = Content.From(Resource.FromString("<h1>My Shop</h1>").Type(ContentType.TextHtml));

        return VirtualHosts.Create()
                           .Add("blog.localhost", blog)
                           .Add("shop.localhost", shop)
                           .Default(Redirect.To("http://blog.localhost:8080/", temporary: true)); // any other host
    }

}

Try it

With the sample running on your machine:

  1. Open the blog

    PAGE http://blog.localhost:8080/ Open

  2. Open the shop

    PAGE http://shop.localhost:8080/ Open

  3. Choose the site via the Host header

    curl -H "Host: shop.localhost" http://localhost:8080/