Hi All!

I am setting up a server which will host about half a dozen domains to start will be adding from time to time.

Currently I know how to make VirtualHosts in Apache, I know how to make DNS entries in BIND 9, I know how to setup postfix to deliver messages for a single domain to Cyrus, I setup squirrelmail to allow people from that domain to access their mail.

I would like to have users for each domain. And I will need to allow things like
joe@mydomain.net is a different user than joe@anotherdomain.net.

I need some pointers on the best possible wait to go about doing this?

As you can tell I am somewhat of a newbie, so please help me.

Thanks,

David

I found this tutorial which is Debian based but should work for any distro, some time ago.

What about Apache? Is there a way to get Apache to look up virtual hosts in a mysql database? And Bind, I found a package called mysql-bind. Anyone try that? Is it anygood?

Thanks

David

With Apache you setup the virtual domains in the httpd.conf . A good tutorial at:
http://www.apachefreaks.com/tutorials/23/1.php

I know about httpd.conf.

I was hoping there was an easier way to do it that amongst other things, did not involve restarting apache...

David

??????? it only takes a few seconds to restart the server. In Debian it is controlled through /etc/init.d i.e. $ /etc/init.d/apache restart

A few seconds is an eternity when your friends are having visitors 24/7

What? Try it. If it usually takes 2 seconds to load the page, it will take three if someone is unlucky enough to request the page while the server is restarting. You won't even get an error. If you want, you could schedule it for between 3:00:00 AM and 3:00:01 AM so nobody notices.

for the email thing, you can use postfix and vm-pop3d for virtual domain mailboxes.

tutorial here:
http://sonicresolutions.com/tech/how...x_vmpop3d.html

took all of about 15 minutes to setup.

>> a few seconds is an eternity when your friends are having visitors 24/7
Better if you 'reload'(which is a HUP) than 'restart' to update.
You could also use a proxy server to cache your web pages and allow apache to update behind the scenes.