virtual domain and braking of the webserver... (fwd)

[Rob Hartill <ro...@imdb.com>]

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Hi, I am using apache 1.1.1 on bsdi 2.1
We have 300+ virtual domains on apache webserver..

the problem is when our dns admin changes domain info... for a virtual
domain, it breaks the web server....


for example...
domain name bkhb.com
in dns set up as www.bkhb.com with an ip.

I have set in my httpd.conf file last few lines..

#------------ New Server www.bkhb.com name --------
<VirtualHost www.bkhb.com>
ServerAdmin parthiv@ios.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/docs/bkhb/
ServerName www.bkhb.com
ErrorLog logs/bkhb-error_log
TransferLog logs/bkhb-access_log
</VirtualHost>

Now problem is let's say customer moves from my company to different
company... and therefore dns entry changes.. so dnsadmin changes in our
dns. Now dns is changed by abouve lines are not commented out from 
/var/www/conf/httpd.conf

this causes webserver to break..

is there a patch that will allow me to do this?


if webserver finds a domain in the httpd.conf which is not set in our
dns properly that in should ignore that domain, and it should go for the
next domain..... instead of breaking the webserver????

This will help me a great amount, please let me know, if my email makes
sense or if not, than I can call you and explain it to you in detail....

Thanx a lot,
Parthiv


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Re: virtual domain and braking of the webserver... (fwd)

[Brian Behlendorf <br...@organic.com>]

> if webserver finds a domain in the httpd.conf which is not set in our
> dns properly that in should ignore that domain, and it should go for the
> next domain..... instead of breaking the webserver????

Some say yes, some say no - we've made the design decision at this point that
if it's configured this way, and the DNS fails, it's a very large failure and
should be warned about loudly rather than silently fail. If you want to prevent
this from being a problem, the best thing to do is to use IP numbers in the
virtualhost config:

  <VirtualHost 204.152.144.38>
  ServerName www.apache.org
  DocumentRoot ....
  ...etc....
  </VirtualHost>

This will be emphasized in the revised documentation.

	Brian

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