2009/6/29 Mike Cardwell <apache-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Monkey Daemon wrote: > >> I'm looking into our options going forward for our web-hosting cluster. >> >> We're currently running Zeus Web Server using sub servers. >> >> The idea behind webservers is that you can have a directory layout that looks like: >> >> /var/www/%HOSTING-PACKAGE-TYPE%/%x%/%x%/%domain-name.tld/html/ >> >> and the webserver does a lookup for the files in the html directory for each request it recieves. In the above example, that would mean that for www.icanhazcheezburger.com <http://www.icanhazcheezburger.com> [0] hosted on a Designer Hosting package, the path would expand to >> >> /var/www/DesignerHosting/i/c/icanhazcheezburger.com/html/ <http://icanhazcheezburger.com/html/> >> >> I know that you can do a similar thing with vhosts, however we need to be able to set different options for each of our hosting packages and I don't appear to be able to specify the package-type restrictions, just server wide which is no good for our hosting platform. >> >> If someone can point me in the direction of the correct module(s) to use for this, I'd be very greatful. > > I set up a system very similar to what you're describing in a past job. I used mod_rewrites RewriteMap option with the "prg" MapType. > > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritemap > > iirc we used suphp to make the perl/php scripts run as the owner of the file. > > What differences are there between your different hosting packages that would require vhost level configuration? Perhaps you could set up one virtualhost for each hosting package and stick them on different IPs? We host over 160,000 sites, I'm not sure if it's a good idea to host that number across about 4 vhosts (that is the number of hosting packages we provide!) :) The main issue that we face is that vhost_alias does not return the correct document root as a server variable under PHP and we don't want to end up with a huge number of mod_reqrite rules just to get the system running...although I do realise that it may well be a trade-off here. As an example, a file at /var/www/DesignerHosting/e/x/example.com/html/test.php with a simple "echo $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']" statement in it will echo the ServerRoot as set in apache2's httpd.conf (or equivalent depending on Operating System!) instead of the VirtualDocumentRoot which is set to /var/www/DesignerHosting/%1.1/%1.2/%1+/html and should expand to /var/www/DesignerHosting/e/x/example.com/html/ (provided the syntax is correct!) The packages work as follows: Basic: Static HTML, Legacy: PHP4/mySQL4 Hosting: php5/MySQL5 Designer: php5/Hosting5 but with ability for reselling/sub-domains etc. So any site that is hosted on the basic offering needs to have PHP/MySQL switched off, the others need it switched on and the Reseller account needs to be able to setup sub domains. > >> [0] Sadly this domain is not hosted with us, but it seemed like a good example domain to use! > > According to RFC 2606 it's best practice to use one of the following domains when you need examples: > > example.com > example.org > example.net > > See http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2606.txt for more information. Duely noted, I'll use this in future. Kind regards, 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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