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From: Stuart Herbert <stuart@g.o>
To: "Robin H.Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Web Application Installation
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 02:46:53
Message-Id: 200308060344.47919.stuart@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Web Application Installation by "Robin H.Johnson"
1 On Wednesday 06 August 2003 3:16 am, Robin H.Johnson wrote:
2 > Where do you see -vhosts fiting into having multiple instances of a
3 > webapp on a single host ?
4
5 Personally, I don't. If you want multiple instances of a webapp on a single
6 host, the webapps need to be installed with +vhosts.
7
8 -vhosts would be strictly single copy single domain scenario.
9
10 > On the experience I gained from working on the php eclass and ufed,
11 > Portage is a very good distribution mechanism, even if it is only for
12 > initial testing. Just keep it hardmasked while testing with a few big
13 > warnings. This also enables us to get a very wide test base including
14 > outside users if we so desire. The concept of an initial testing run is
15 > definetly worthwhile, but also a strong warning that what you intend as
16 > a testing round has a hard habit of sticking around a lot longer than
17 > expected no matter what form it is in.
18
19 Okay, I'll go with that.
20
21 > > Btw, talked to Woodchip on IRC tonight, and he seemed happy enough
22 > > with us moving the default -vhosts DocRoot from /home/httpd. So I'm
23 > > gonna strongly advocate that the default -vhosts DocRoot moves to
24 > > /var/www/localhost/public_html in the near future.
25 >
26 > Sounds good.
27
28 ;-)
29
30 Take care,
31 Stu
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