[Techtalk] Hosting multiple websites from one user on Apache

[Amber]

I am not root, therefore I am trying to host it out of my home directory. I
_looked_ in the docs (but thanks for the suggestion) and after following
what little there was in there about such a thing, turned to fellow users. I
will re-peruse, but as far as I know, I am configured as they suggest.
Thanks,
-Amber

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Merrill" <david at lupercalia.net>
To: "techtalk" <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Techtalk] Hosting multiple websites from one user on Apache


> On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 06:16:14PM -0800, Amber wrote:
> > Hey all, I have been poking around with this for a few days now, and
haven't gotten it to work quite right yet. Does anyone know what has to be
done in httpd.conf to get more than one site hosting off of a users
directory? I am setting the document root as just another folder in my home
directory, but that doesn't work. Is there a specific way I have to
reference it? Or a specific location it has to be in? Would appreciate any
suggestions.
>
> The standard document root directive doesn't affect virtual hosting.
> The Apache docs cover it so much better than I could, I won't give you
> the details, but instead kindly recommend you rtfm. No offense
> intended. It's at:
>
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/vhosts/index.html
>
> There's no specific directory it has to be in, but the directory does
> need to be readable by the user who is running apache, www-data on
> Debian but also sometimes root (not recommended, however, for security
> reasons) or httpd (on Red Hat 6.2, probably others).
>
> Here is the relevant portion of my httpd.conf. Luckily in Debian it is
> very well commented. This is for Apache 1.3 -- it might have changed
> in Apache 2.0, which is currently in beta and not recommended for
> production servers.
>
>
> ### Section 3: Virtual Hosts
> #
> # VirtualHost: If you want to maintain multiple domains/hostnames on your
> # machine you can setup VirtualHost containers for them.
> # Please see the documentation at <URL:http://www.apache.org/docs/vhosts/>
> # for further details before you try to setup virtual hosts.
> # You may use the command line option '-S' to verify your virtual host
> # configuration.
>
> #
> # If you want to use name-based virtual hosts you need to define at
> # least one IP address (and port number) for them.
> #
> #NameVirtualHost 12.34.56.78:80
> NameVirtualHost *
>
> #
> # VirtualHost example:
> # Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container.
> #
> #<VirtualHost ip.address.of.host.some_domain.com>
> #    ServerAdmin webmaster at host.some_domain.com
> #    DocumentRoot /www/docs/host.some_domain.com
> #    ServerName host.some_domain.com
> #    ErrorLog logs/host.some_domain.com-error.log
> #    CustomLog logs/host.some_domain.com-access.log common
> #</VirtualHost>
>
> <VirtualHost *>
>     ServerName www.lupercalia.net
>     DocumentRoot /var/www/lupercalia.net
>     ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/
>     ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/mailman/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/
>     Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/
>     ErrorDocument 404 /marvin404.html
>     <Directory /var/www/lupercalia.net>
>       Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
>       AllowOverride None
>       Order allow,deny
>       Allow from all
>     </Directory>
> </VirtualHost>
>
> <VirtualHost *>
>     ServerName db.linuxdoc.org
>     DocumentRoot /var/www/gldp.org
>     ServerAlias www.gldp.org
>     ServerAlias gldp.org
>     <Directory /var/www/gldp.org>
>       Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
>       AllowOverride None
>       Order allow,deny
>       Allow from all
>     </Directory>
>
>     ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/gldp.org/
>     <Directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin/gldp.org/>
>       AuthName "LDP Database"
>       AuthType Basic
>       AuthUserFile /var/www/htpasswd-gldp
>       Require valid-user
>       Satisfy All
>     </Directory>
> </VirtualHost>
>
> <VirtualHost *>
>     ServerName ldp.lupercalia.net
>     DocumentRoot /var/www/ldp.lupercalia.net
>     <Directory /var/www/ldp.lupercalia.net>
>       Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
>       AllowOverride None
>       Order allow,deny
>       Allow from all
>     </Directory>
> </VirtualHost>
>
> <VirtualHost *>
>     ServerName www.ffa-cac.org
>     DocumentRoot /var/www/ffa-cac.org
>     ServerAlias ffa-cac.org *.ffa-cac.org
>     <Directory /var/www/ffa-cac.org>
>       Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
>       AllowOverride None
>       Order allow,deny
>       Allow from all
>     </Directory>
> </VirtualHost>
>
> <VirtualHost *>
>     ServerName www.scrollserver.org
>     DocumentRoot /var/www/scrollserver.org
>     ServerAlias scrollserver.org *.scrollserver.org
>     <Directory /var/www/scrollserver.org>
>       Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
>       AllowOverride None
>       Order allow,deny
>       Allow from all
>     </Directory>
> </VirtualHost>
>
> #<VirtualHost _default_:*>
> #</VirtualHost>
>
>
> --
> David C. Merrill                         http://www.lupercalia.net
> Linux Documentation Project                   david at lupercalia.net
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