On Wednesday 06 August 2003 3:16 am, Robin H.Johnson wrote:
> Where do you see -vhosts fiting into having multiple instances of a
> webapp on a single host ?

Personally, I don't.  If you want multiple instances of a webapp on a single 
host, the webapps need to be installed with +vhosts.

-vhosts would be strictly single copy single domain scenario.

> On the experience I gained from working on the php eclass and ufed,
> Portage is a very good distribution mechanism, even if it is only for
> initial testing. Just keep it hardmasked while testing with a few big
> warnings. This also enables us to get a very wide test base including
> outside users if we so desire. The concept of an initial testing run is
> definetly worthwhile, but also a strong warning that what you intend as
> a testing round has a hard habit of sticking around a lot longer than
> expected no matter what form it is in.

Okay, I'll go with that.

> > Btw, talked to Woodchip on IRC tonight, and he seemed happy enough
> > with us moving the default -vhosts DocRoot from /home/httpd.  So I'm
> > gonna strongly advocate that the default -vhosts DocRoot moves to
> > /var/www/localhost/public_html in the near future.
>
> Sounds good.

;-)

Take care,
Stu
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