> I want to do very domain hosting for family and friends. What I have so far > is multiple IPs and how to assign them to the same Ethernet card. I also > know how to set up users and allow them to update their own page at > www.mydomain.com/~username. Here is my attempt at support multiple domains: > > I am heading in this direction: Multiple Virtual servers each with it's own > IP being tied to the following document root directories: > > DocumentRoot /sites/www.domain1.com/ > DocumentRoot /sites/www.domain2.com/ > DocumentRoot /sites/www.domain3.com/ > from the above i understand, that you have configured your eth0 for multiple ip-s already. :-)
> The next question would be: How do I allow users to ftp the their domain and > update the pages? > > I plan to add one user per domain and make the web document root their home > directory. That way FTP will default to that directory for uploading web > pages. > create normal accounts for them. as it is the same host behind all the ip-s, they could ftp to any of these ip-s to get access to the machine. > Lastly, I was going to give their account recursive ownership of their > document root. > that will be automatically done, if they have normal user accounts. > Does this sound like a plan? If anyone else has done domain hosting, I > would appreciate the input. I don't like this because it gives people > accounts on the server. Because I want them to have file access, I don't > see a way around it. I guess I'll also give them mail accounts while I'm at > it :) > if you don't want them to telnet to you box, then set their shell to /bin/true or /bin/date or something. note, that you have to add this pseudo-shell to /etc/shells to allow your users to ftp. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Linux - the last service pack you'll ever need.
