Re: apache2: clearing the air [please read]

[Nick Phillips <nwp@lemon-computing.com>]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 01:26:00PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Nick Phillips wrote:
> > Wichert's latest suggestion made a lot of sense. I'm not sure whether it
> > would allow for vhosting other than www, but... [shrug].
> 
> It would acutually:
> 
> VHOSTROOT/      - root directory for all my virtual hosts
> +- <hostname>/  - root directory for a single virtual host
>   +- etc/       - configuration files (apache config, email alises, etc.)
>   |               for that vhost
>   +- cgi-bin/   - CGI scripts
>   +- http/      - publicly accessible stuff via http
>   +- mail/      - mail configuration
>   +- ftp/       - publicly accessible stuff via ftp
>   +- db/        - databases
> 
> Wichert.


OK; what are we waiting for? ;)

The only question is which package should "own" the configuration of VHOSTROOT
- that's why I was mumbling incoherently about a "vhost-base" package or
similar to look after that kind of thing.

Otherwise, how do we deal with (mail without web)|(khttpd rather than apache2)
|(whatever)?


Cheers,


Nick
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