Make a Virtual Sever's IP Address, the dedicated IP address for one domain

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Make a Virtual Sever’s IP Address, the dedicated IP address for one domain.

I need a dedicated IP address for a domain existing on a Virtual Server. The Virtual Server comes with one IP address already and I’d like to use this IP address for the domain.

Is this possible? And if so, how do I do this?

My set up: Linux Virtual Server on 1&1 hosting, comes with Plesk. Any ideas?

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Well, if your VM has one IP and only one IP and you are hosting it there then you are all set, nothing at all to do. Unless I’m misreading the question . . .

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So I have the IP address of the server ( http://50.21.181.85/ ) which, when you click on it, goes to the default page of the server.

I’d like the IP address of the server to go to the one domain / account on the server instead of the default page.

This way I can use the IP address for the A record of my Network Solutions DNS settings.

Does this shed any light on my question?

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That makes a bit more sense. And it isn’t a problem. Most servers are setup to handle multiple virtual sites using host headers to differentiate – ie you could host foo.com and bar.com on 50.21.181.85 and apache would figure it out using the request. So you probably want to:

a) Configure your site to listen to whatever is appropriate.
b) Test this (PROTIP: use your hosts files to change your local DNS to make sure it works)
c) Change the A record to point at the new IP address.

Im not exactly sure how to make the naked IP listen to the right site, but typically that is a matter of setting what the default site in Apache or whatever is.