[SWLUG] Restart Apache from php

[Terry John]

All this assumed that you have a DNS somewhere configured with all your
virtual host names pointing to the IP address of your server. If the
answer is "No", or "Oh sh!t I never thought of that" then consider
port-based virtual hosting. Not entirely sure if Apache 2 supports them
but I used them on Apache 1.3

Using PHP to alter a mysql database and a perl script to read it (& I
guess error/hacking check it) is to my mind a good idea.

Terry

-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces at swlug.org.uk [mailto:discuss-bounces at swlug.org.uk]
On Behalf Of Dick Porter
Sent: 21 January 2005 15:08
To: discuss at swlug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [SWLUG] Restart Apache from php


On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 14:27 +0000, Toby Maxwell-Lyte wrote:
> On 21 Jan 2005 at 13:54, justin at discordia.org.uk wrote:
> 
> > On 21 Jan, Toby Maxwell-Lyte wrote:
> > > I guess I could store the desired domain names in a mysql db. I 
> > > could write a perl script that checked this db for entries and 
> > > then created new virtual hosts accordingly. I could then setup a 
> > > cronjob to run this script every 5 minutes.
> > 
> > Apache does have support for multiple VirtualHosts without needing 
> > any config file changes or restarting.
> > 
> > ive never tried it myself, but read here 
> > http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/vhosts/mass.html
> 
> Thanks, I had seen that and unfortuantely the sites are not
> necessarily stored in a directory that matches the domain name. The 
> sites are created dynamically therefore they're stored in directories 
> that have an integer that increases in value for each new site. This 
> makes it far easier for programmatic reasons. 

If you need a unique key, then surely the domain name is unique?

If you absolutely have to have a numeric directory, then a 5-minute cron
job that looks up the list of domain names in your database and links
them to the directory (with the appropriate symlink handling in
httpd.conf) will be a lot easier.

- Dick


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