apache vhosts

[David A. Bandel]

On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 14:44:56 -0500
begin  Douglas J Hunley <doug at hunley.homeip.net> spewed forth:

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no problem.

You need the following directive:
NameVirtualHost *

Then you need something like the following:
<VirtualHost *>
        ServerAdmin info at pananix.com
        DocumentRoot /usr/local/apache/htdocs/pananix
        ServerName www.pananix.com
        ServerAlias pananix.com pananix.com.pa www.pananix.com.pa
</VirtualHost>

Basically, you have a VirtualHost container for every single virtual host
you want visible to the world. If someone accessess your system as
something other than one of the virtual host names listed in a
"ServerName" or "ServerAlias" directive (e.g., uses an IP in the URL),
they'll be sent to the very first virtual host container, so make that
whatever you want as the server default.

So your kids can each have their own virtual host: 
jimmie.hunley.homeip.net, suzie.hunley.homeip.net, etc.

Caution:  keep your virtual containers separate.  Each needs its own
separate DocumentRoot.  That way too, you can use ftp "guests" so users
can maintain their own subdirs via ftp (don't forget they'll need a bin/,
lib/, and etc/ subdirs w/ the appropriate files (let me know if you need
help with this too).

After each VirtualHost is defined as above, you'll need to restart Apache.

Most directives are available within Virtual hosts.  you can use Options,
Logging, etc, to change any of the defaults higher up in httpd.conf.

Using webmin to do this is a tad confusing until you see what webmin does
and compare it to the httpd.conf file.

Really should copy this to the list, you know (think I will).

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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