Joshua, Thank you! I appreciate you helping me fight the learning curve, which sometimes seems very steep (in my old age). Some follow-up questions/responses are below. Jay O'Brien Rio Linda, California USA Joshua Slive wrote: > On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 18:42:50 -0800, Jay O'Brien <jayobrien@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >>1. Should I leave the old ServerName and Document Root statements in the >> file? They seem to have no effect now. > > > Yes, they do nothing, and yes, you should leave them. > So as long as a vhost is defined these do nothing. Is there a problem with commenting them out? >>2. What about the old Directory, OllowOverride, Order allow, deny, and >> Allow from all entries? If I leave them in I get errors. Why? > > > What errors? Directives outside <VirtualHost> sections still have an > effect on the virtual hosts unless they are overriden by directives > inside the <VirtualHost> sections. > I learned later that the error I got was because I renamed the old directory when I established the vhost; Apache was complaining because the directory didn't exist any more. > >>3. What does the UserDir public_html do now? > > > The same thing it did before. Both vhosts will have user directory > mapping, unless you change the config inside the vhost. > I obviously need to read up on this. But it sounds like if every one of my directories and subdirectories has a default file (home.html in my case) this doesn't apply to me NOW. > >>4. What effect does 'UseCanonicalName On' have? > > See: > http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#usecanonicalname > Essentially, it controls what name apache will use when it sends redirects. > Another issue I don't understand yet. But wow, thanks for turning me on to the 2.0 file you linked for me. I'm running 1.3, and I haven't found anything in the 1.3 docs pertaining to this issue that is that clearly explained. > >>5. What controls do I have over .htaccess files in the directories now >> pointed to by the VirtualHost entries? > > > See: > http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#allowoverride > Again, thanks for the link. I'll spend some time looking at 2.0 stuff now. > >>6. Are there other issues I need to handle, using name-based virtual >> hosts with one IP number? > > I don't know what you are asking here. > I don't either, but I'm convinced that if there was a "gotcha" that you would caution me about it. > > Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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