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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by Kai Hendry <he...@cs.helsinki.fi> on 2004/07/15 15:52:14 UTC
[users@httpd] Optimizing Virtual host(s) configuration on apache 1.3.31
Can I configure apache to automagically look in
/web/subdomain.mydomain.org for a vhost on the ip of my server?
For example. On a client machine I can:
sudo echo 62.220.235.20 made.it.up >> /etc/hosts
And when putting in made.it.up in my browser, I would get a 404. :)
Unless I mkdir /etc/make.it.up on my server.
Right now my configuration is real pain in the ass[1].
In my monstrous httpd.conf, I have somewhere my vhosts listed like so:
NameVirtualHost 62.220.235.20:80
<VirtualHost www.dabase.com dabase.com>
Include conf/dabase.com.conf
</VirtualHost>
...
What is the point of NameVirtualHost? I still have to put in the IP, as
thanks to:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/dns-caveats.html
I have since learnt to put in the ip address and use ServerName to
avoid errors like:
error.log:[Thu Jul 15 00:32:37 2004] [error] Cannot resolve host name test.natalian.org --- ignoring!
<VirtualHost 62.220.235.20>
Include conf/test.natalian.org.conf
</VirtualHost>
All my sites are pretty much the same. I override any settings with .htaccess.
So my configurations in /etc/apache/conf duplicate each other:
bilbo$ diff -u test.natalian.org.conf tips.natalian.org.conf
--- test.natalian.org.conf 2004-07-15 16:00:17.000000000 +0300
+++ tips.natalian.org.conf 2004-07-15 00:38:55.000000000 +0300
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
- CustomLog /var/log/apache/test.natalian.org-access_log combined
- ServerAdmin test@natalian.org
- ServerName test.natalian.org
+ CustomLog /var/log/apache/tips.natalian.org-access_log combined
+ ServerAdmin tips@natalian.org
+ ServerName tips.natalian.org
-DocumentRoot /web/test.natalian.org
+DocumentRoot /web/tips.natalian.org
- <Directory "/web/test.natalian.org">
+ <Directory "/web/tips.natalian.org">
Options All
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
So ideally I would not have to edit httpd.conf, make a new configuration
file and restart apache everytime I start a new web project. I also
forgot to update httpd.conf when my machine switched to another IP. That
was another painful exp I would like to avoid.
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Re: [users@httpd] Optimizing Virtual host(s) configuration on apache 1.3.31
Posted by Kai Hendry <he...@cs.helsinki.fi>.
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 12:21:39 +0300, Kai Hendry wrote:
> But how I do DocumentRoot, ScriptAlias and Alias in
I need to do DocumentRoot somehow with .htaccess when using vhost
alias..
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Re: [users@httpd] Optimizing Virtual host(s) configuration on apache 1.3.31
Posted by Kai Hendry <he...@cs.helsinki.fi>.
In my httpd.conf I tried both:
UseCanonicalName Off
VirtualDocumentRoot /web/%0
LogFormat "%V %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" vhost_common
CustomLog /var/log/apache/access_log vhost_common
Options All
NameVirtualHost 62.220.235.20:80
<VirtualHost svn.natalian.org>
Include conf/svn.natalian.org.conf
</VirtualHost>
But that doesn't work either:
[Fri Jul 16 00:36:47 2004] [error] [client 217.30.176.161] File does not
exist: /web/svn.natalian.org/
Can they not work together some how? These two types of vhost
directives?
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Re: [users@httpd] Optimizing Virtual host(s) configuration on apache 1.3 or 2
Posted by Kai Hendry <he...@cs.helsinki.fi>.
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 07:53:20 -0400, Joshua Slive wrote:
> Doing DocumentRoot in .htaccess would defeat the whole purpose of
> mod_vhost_alias, which is to set the DocumentRoot based on the
> hostname. It sounds like you should exclude this vhost from
> mod_vhost_alias. You can do this as follows:
In the case of my svn repository I agree, but for example I have a site
where directory index is needed and now shows up in the URL all the
time:
http://trip.natalian.org/moin.cgi/FrontPage
It used to be just:
http://trip.natalian.org/FrontPage
I guess I need to fix this with a rewrite rule.
And it would be nice to do Alias from .htaccess. Umm, rewrite rule
again? /me shivers...
Your vhost suggestions did the trick btw!
http://svn.natalian.org/debian/configuration/bilbo/httpd.conf
Thank you very much, =)
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Re: [users@httpd] Optimizing Virtual host(s) configuration on apache 1.3.31
Posted by Joshua Slive <js...@gmail.com>.
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 00:21:39 +0300, Kai Hendry <he...@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 10:02:50 -0400, Joshua Slive wrote:
> > On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:52:14 +0300, Kai Hendry <he...@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> > > Can I configure apache to automagically look in
> > > /web/subdomain.mydomain.org for a vhost on the ip of my server?
> >
> > I think you are looking for mod_vhost_alias. See:
> > http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_vhost_alias.html
>
> Excellent. I've got it going, but some of my sites are a little tricky
> to convert to a vhost. For example:
>
> bilbo$ cat /etc/apache/conf/svn.natalian.org.conf
> CustomLog /var/log/apache/svn.natalian.org-access_log combined
>
> ServerAdmin spam@natalian.org
> ServerName svn.natalian.org
>
> DocumentRoot /usr/lib/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi
> RewriteEngine On
> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
> <Directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin>
> SetHandler cgi-script
> Options ExecCGI
> </Directory>
>
> Alias /viewcvs/ /usr/share/viewcvs/
>
> LogLevel warn
>
> ServerSignature On
>
> Ok I can lost the customlog as I understand apache can't have many files
> open when I am running lots of vhosts.
>
> But how I do DocumentRoot, ScriptAlias and Alias in
> /web/svn.natalian.org 's .htaccess?
Doing DocumentRoot in .htaccess would defeat the whole purpose of
mod_vhost_alias, which is to set the DocumentRoot based on the
hostname. It sounds like you should exclude this vhost from
mod_vhost_alias. You can do this as follows:
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName anything.goes.here
VirtualDocumentRoot ...
etc...
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName svn.natalian.org
DocumentRoot ...
etc ...
</VirtualHost>
Any host that does not match a specific ServerName will get served by
the VirtualDocumentRoot in the first <VirtualHost> section.
Joshua.
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Re: [users@httpd] Optimizing Virtual host(s) configuration on apache 1.3.31
Posted by Kai Hendry <he...@cs.helsinki.fi>.
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 10:02:50 -0400, Joshua Slive wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:52:14 +0300, Kai Hendry <he...@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> > Can I configure apache to automagically look in
> > /web/subdomain.mydomain.org for a vhost on the ip of my server?
>
> I think you are looking for mod_vhost_alias. See:
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_vhost_alias.html
Excellent. I've got it going, but some of my sites are a little tricky
to convert to a vhost. For example:
bilbo$ cat /etc/apache/conf/svn.natalian.org.conf
CustomLog /var/log/apache/svn.natalian.org-access_log combined
ServerAdmin spam@natalian.org
ServerName svn.natalian.org
DocumentRoot /usr/lib/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi
RewriteEngine On
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin>
SetHandler cgi-script
Options ExecCGI
</Directory>
Alias /viewcvs/ /usr/share/viewcvs/
LogLevel warn
ServerSignature On
Ok I can lost the customlog as I understand apache can't have many files
open when I am running lots of vhosts.
But how I do DocumentRoot, ScriptAlias and Alias in
/web/svn.natalian.org 's .htaccess?
They seem not allowed! :/
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Re: [users@httpd] Optimizing Virtual host(s) configuration on apache 1.3.31
Posted by Joshua Slive <js...@gmail.com>.
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:52:14 +0300, Kai Hendry <he...@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> Can I configure apache to automagically look in
> /web/subdomain.mydomain.org for a vhost on the ip of my server?
I think you are looking for mod_vhost_alias. See:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_vhost_alias.html
> What is the point of NameVirtualHost? I still have to put in the IP, as
> thanks to:
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/dns-caveats.html
In the normal case, you can make this even simpler by using *:80 as
the argument to the NameVirtualHost and VirtualHost directives. See:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/vhosts/name-based.html#using
The point of NameVirtualHost is to allow you to deal with more complex
cases where some IP addresses are doing IP-virtual hosting and some
are doing name-virtual hosting.
Joshua.
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