2009/6/29 Mike Cardwell <apache-us...@lists.grepular.com> > > 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-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
