Description
When you use the Alibaba Cloud Content Delivery Network console to add domain names, you often confuse the concepts of origin and back-to-origin HOST. This paper gives examples of these two concepts.
References
Differences between an origin server and an origin host:
- An origin server defines a specific IP address to which back-to-origin requests are redirected.
- Back-to-origin host: The origin host determines the site to which the back-to-origin request accesses the IP address.
Back-to-origin HOST is the back-to-origin domain name. When multiple Domain service are provided on the origin server, the specific site domain name that is accessed on the origin server when the Alibaba Cloud Content Delivery Network node is back-to-origin.
Example 1: The origin site is a domain name
If the origin server is demo.aliyundoc.com, the back-to-origin host is set to demo.example.com. Then the actual back-to-origin is the demo.example.com site on the corresponding host of the IP address to which the demo.aliyundoc.com is resolved.
Example 2: The origin is an IP address
The origin server is 192.168.0.1, and the back-to-origin host is demo.example.com. Then the actual return is 192.168.0.1 demo.example.com site on the corresponding host.
Applicable scope
- CDN