Re: Virtual hosts and bind

[Chris Pepper <pe...@mail.reppep.com>]

At 9:23 PM -0500 2001/11/28, Rich Bowen wrote:
>I have been enduring an extended tirade from a disgruntled user
>regarding the vhosts documentation. I suppose I could share most of his
>notes with the mailing list, but I'm not sure how much good this would
>do. His primary points are as follows:
>
>1) There's no step-by-step guide for setting up a virtual host. (I don't
>think that I agree with this, but I admit that I have a somewhat
>different perspective, having done this a few times.)

	Screwy users aside, I think 
<http://httpd.apache.org/docs/vhosts/name-based.html> is pretty good, 
and could be enhanced by a good general sample, showing the most 
likely directives for use in a vhost block, and warnings:

	You must update your DNS so this hostname maps to this IP.
	Beware DNS CNAMEs for mailhosts -- It's logical to use CNAMEs 
with vhosts, but if you introduce sendmail, it will rewrite, and this 
is probably not what you want; with sendmail, use multiple A records.
	Define a vhost for the default case; define the main 
(non-vhost) area of httpd.conf to be extra-conservative, and override 
as necessary for specific vhosts.
	If you specify vhost access or error logging, but not both, 
the other logging doesn't happen -- Is this true? I think I saw it 
mentioned here, but never complained.
	NameVirtualHost is requires before VirtualHost direct

	Here's a pretty standard vhost block -- I use a bunch just 
like this with different names and paths. What else should be 
included in a good general example?

<VirtualHost 64.81.19.108>
         DocumentRoot /home/web/mosxsw/htdocs/
         ServerName www.mosxsw.com
         ServerAlias mosxsw.com www.macosxsw.com macosxsw.com port.mosxsw.com
         ErrorLog logs/error_log
         CustomLog logs/mosxsw.com-access_log combined
</VirtualHost>


						Thanks,


						Chris Pepper
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Re: Virtual hosts and bind

["William A. Rowe, Jr." <wr...@covalent.net>]

From: "Andy Doran - Fasthosts Internet Ltd." <an...@fasthosts.co.uk>
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 3:20 AM


> > Here's a pretty standard vhost block -- I use a bunch just
> > like this with different names and paths. What else should be
> > included in a good general example?
> >
> > <VirtualHost 64.81.19.108>
> >          DocumentRoot /home/web/mosxsw/htdocs/
> >          ServerName www.mosxsw.com
> >          ServerAlias mosxsw.com www.macosxsw.com macosxsw.com
> > port.mosxsw.com
> >          ErrorLog logs/error_log
> >          CustomLog logs/mosxsw.com-access_log combined
> > </VirtualHost>
> 
> 
> I would suggest that ServerAdmin should be in there too, unless you set it
> up globally.

For an example block?  I'd agree ServerAdmin should be there.  Is there any
difference between;

  ServerAlias mosxsw.com www.macosxsw.com macosxsw.com port.mosxsw.com

and

  ServerAlias mosxsw.com
  ServerAlias www.macosxsw.com
  ServerAlias macosxsw.com
  ServerAlias port.mosxsw.com

???  If not, the latter is certainly more legible.






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RE: Virtual hosts and bind

["Andy Doran - Fasthosts Internet Ltd." <an...@fasthosts.co.uk>]

> 	Here's a pretty standard vhost block -- I use a bunch just
> like this with different names and paths. What else should be
> included in a good general example?
>
> <VirtualHost 64.81.19.108>
>          DocumentRoot /home/web/mosxsw/htdocs/
>          ServerName www.mosxsw.com
>          ServerAlias mosxsw.com www.macosxsw.com macosxsw.com
> port.mosxsw.com
>          ErrorLog logs/error_log
>          CustomLog logs/mosxsw.com-access_log combined
> </VirtualHost>


I would suggest that ServerAdmin should be in there too, unless you set it
up globally.

Andy.


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