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Old 12-30-2004, 04:19 PM   #1
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Apache with auto username hosts


Hello all,

I'd like to set up apache so that users automatically get their own virtual hostname, not just userdir.

I have DNS set up to return the server's IP for any hostname not otherwise configured.

What I need to do next is make apache behave as follows:

When it receives a request for "http://foo.site.com" to automatically use /home/foo/public_html/htdocs for document root and /home/foo/public_html/cgi-bin for a cgi alias.

Hopefully this can go into the apache config with some sort of wildcards so I don't have to manually configure every new user I add... I've tried using wildcards in a virtual hosts container but haven't had any luck.

Thanks!

~Eric

Last edited by whysyn; 12-30-2004 at 04:25 PM.
 
Old 12-30-2004, 04:36 PM   #2
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mod_rewrite pratical solutions scroll down to the Virtual User Hosts section about a 1/3 the way down
 
Old 12-31-2004, 09:38 AM   #3
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EDIT
The more I read the article linked, the less I think I understand it :-) The regex makes sense to me, but I'm not sure how to implement that sample into my httpd.conf file.
/EDIT

Great article, thank you. I'm not sure how I missed it while searching the apache site...

One more question:
I do have a couple of statically configured virtual hosts, how do I specify a seperate cgi-bin directory & seperate cgi-directory options to only apply to the userdir sites? If I put two ScriptAlias directives in the main configuration, won;t they interfere with eachother?

Thanks again!

~Eric

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Old 12-31-2004, 10:53 AM   #4
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if you read this article then it you will tell you that the context of RewriteCond and RewriteRule can be any of: server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess.

I am looking into this myself because at the minute I use virtual hosts but I want to use userdirs and use rewrite rules to map the domains to the userdirs. So those rules under Virtual User Hosts of the pratical solutions article look very promising to me. As for the cgi directory I think something like this would do:
Code:
#taken from the default apache httpd.conf file
<Directory /home/*/public_html>
    AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
    Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
    <Limit GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Limit>
    <LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
    </LimitExcept>
</Directory>

# Allow each user to have dir to exec cgi scripts
<Directory "/home/*/public_html/cgi-bin">
    Options ExecCGI
    SetHandler cgi-script
</Directory>
As far as I am aware you can have as many scriptalias directives as you want as long as you use different names:
Code:
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/user/cgi-bin/
ScriptAlias /cgi-shared/ /home/cgi-shared/
 
  


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