[Gllug] apache virtual hosts

[Jim Bailey]

On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 09:09:01AM +0100, Mark Lowes wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 08:57, tet at accucard.com wrote:
> > >Automation is good :)
> > 
> > Agreed, although you'll need to remember to add "Options FollowSymLinks".
> 
> Well as with anything you need to do the initial configuration correctly
> :)
> 
> > Playing devil's advocate, though, it's just as easy to automate adding
> > Alias lines to a file which is included from your main httpd.conf.
> 
> Not forgetting the automated reload :)
> 
> > I use mod_alias because our top level build changes on a reasonably
> > frequent basis due to the marketing people always wanting changes
> > to the web site. The number of aliased directories changes less
> > frequently than the other site changes, so it's easier to do it that
> > way than to have to repopulate the symlinks in each build. As an
> > aside, I use symlinks to point to the main DocumentRoot, which gives
> > unparalleled response times should we need to back out to a previous
> > version of the site.
> 
> We use symlinks on the core boxen to link the massvhosting directories
> to the actual live space on the disk and for a few other 'additional'
> services.  I'd actually prefer to do those with aliases but that would
> require hacking on some particularly nasty build systems which I will
> replace some day soon... honest.
>
I am probably getting the wrong end of the stick here but I though
symlinks were bad security on a web server.

http://seaglass.com/securing_apache.html

Peace Jim


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