Michael Steigerwald wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a particular best practice for setting DocumentRoot based on > hostname? In my case, I have several domains, e.g., www.agloa.net > <http://www.agloa.net> and www.mnfatherproject.org > <http://www.mnfatherproject.org> served at the same ip address. What's > the best way to use a different DocumentRoot for each? > > TIA This is really up to you, vhost stanzas could be set up to serve from /path/to/vhosts/www.domain1/public /path/to/vhosts/www.domain2/public etc... but if you start to have ALOT of domains, check out the "Dynamically Configured Mass Virtual Hosting" advice on how to distribute your domains in your filesystem to maximise performance here: (directory name interpolation) http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_vhost_alias.html and here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/mass.html#xtra-conf you can see that dividing up the subdomains... from the domain and tld can evenly distribute many vhosts which does help performance, and even housekeeping! personally I started my DCMVH using the simpler sytem above using a virtual document root of /path/to/vhosts/%0/public but now there are hundreds of them, and I might have to revist that decision and spread them out a bit more. matt -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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