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On May 25, 2004, at 6:48 pm, Stuart Herbert wrote: |
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> Gentoo used to use /home/htdocs as the ServerRoot for Apache. It was |
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> moved |
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> to /var/www/localhost round about the release of apache-2.0.48-r1. |
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I was aware of this. It is the structural changes beneath the document |
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root that have confused me. |
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>> GLEP 11 is presumably not intended as user-documentation, so |
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>> an explanation for someone who finds GLEP 11 heavy-going would be |
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>> appreciated. |
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> I have asked for help from the gentoo-doc project; unfortunately, |
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> no-one has |
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> been able to volunteer their time to help us with docs. |
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> David Stanek has been kind enough to start work on this. You can find |
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> a draft |
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> http://roninds.homelinux.net/vhost.html |
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Thank you for that. Perhaps a link to the final documentation would be |
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appropriate on the new Apache start page..? I'm tempted to suggest |
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adopting the current draft as final, so that users can submit bugs |
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against it, but that could be messy. |
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>> My server is never addressed as "localhost". |
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> Doesn't matter. If we're going to make it possible for you to install |
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> web-based apps using Portage, they have to have a default home. That's |
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> what /var/www/localhost is. |
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Fair enough. Thank you for explaining. |
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>> In writing this email to you I find that an emerge --update has placed |
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>> the new squirrelmail in /var/www/htdocs/, a directory which is now |
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>> otherwise fairly redundant, as it only contains the default Apache |
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>> start-page (in several languages). That update to squirrelmail has |
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>> been |
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>> ignored the past month, as I wasn't aware it would go there. |
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> Okay, sounds like you're running with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86. |
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Nope, I'm not. Things probably just got messed up during the transition |
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from /home/htdocs to /var/www |
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> It also sounds |
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> like your /etc/vhosts/webapp-config file is incorrect too. |
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$ less /etc/vhosts/webapp-config |
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/etc/vhosts/webapp-config: No such file or directory |
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> I recommend that you run |
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> emerge -C squirrelmail |
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> emerge webapp-config |
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Okies. I've emerged that now. The /etc/vhosts/webapp-config file looks |
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very well-documented, but I guess I'm going to have to spend more time |
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trying to understand Apache & it's documents layout. |
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> I'd also recommend that you either pay closer attention to what and |
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> where |
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> Portage installs things, or that you stop running with |
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> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86. |
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*cough* |
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>> What other ways have users demonstrated to you that the don't have a |
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>> clue about virtual hosting..? |
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> This is based on my personal experience of directly talking to Gentoo |
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> users |
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> about web-based applications over the last month or two. Most users |
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> comfortable w/ using their box to serve pages for just the one domain; |
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> moving |
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> to using name-based virtual servers has demonstrated that there's a |
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> bit more |
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> to read about. |
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I look forward to the documentation. |
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Stroller. |
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