Re: WC on Linux question
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2001
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 40337
interpreted = N
texte = John,on 11/27/2001 12:58 PM, John Peacock at jpeacock@rowman.com wrote:> dale wrote: > >> John, >> >> I like your idea, however the folders that will be created will be publicly >> accessible folders of the form >> >> www.domain.com/users/nickname/ >> >> I would imagine creating folders like you recommend would then cause >> problems getting apache to properly recognize them. > > > Not at all; Apache can handle much deeper links than that in a > heartbeat. Just display the link on the page as > > http://nickname.domain.com > > where the actual href is > > http://www.domain.com/users/n/i/nickname/ > > Actually, you can probably use mod.rewrite to do that for you; this > would be the most elegant methodology, but hardly the simplest.Would this mod_rewrite work so I could use URLs styled like www.domain.com/users/nickname/ ?You mention this isn't the simplest how difficult is this to implement? Can I make changes to this using webcat? E.g. Write out a line to its config file as needed when users make changes?>> I guess I could use your suggestion and wildcard the domain in DNS so I >> could end up using http://nickname.domain.com/ instead. That would probably >> be easier to configure, but I am not sure. > > > Sure, if you want to be editing your nickname.conf file and restarting > Apache everytime you make a change.I don't believe I would have to restart each time (but of course could be wrong) I believe I can just set the DNS up using a wildcard so that any request for a machine name that doesn't match an existing A or CNAME record would go to a listed IP, then I could use WC to grab the host and display the proper page.But then again, not having used Apache in a virtual domain configuration, I could be way wrong. > JohnGiven that I know I will start with approximately 10,000 users and would need to create these 10,000 folders with matching index.html file in each, and expect to grow this a great deal over the next few months (and hopefully continued growth) how would you set this up?My preference would be to use the www.domain.com/users/nickname/ style for now. But could handle going with the http://nickname.domain.com if I had to. I was hoping to use the latter method down the road as maybe a premium feature.ThanksDale ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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John,on 11/27/2001 12:58 PM, John Peacock at jpeacock@rowman.com wrote:> dale wrote: > >> John, >> >> I like your idea, however the folders that will be created will be publicly >> accessible folders of the form >> >> www.domain.com/users/nickname/ >> >> I would imagine creating folders like you recommend would then cause >> problems getting apache to properly recognize them. > > > Not at all; Apache can handle much deeper links than that in a > heartbeat. Just display the link on the page as > > http://nickname.domain.com > > where the actual href is > > http://www.domain.com/users/n/i/nickname/ > > Actually, you can probably use mod.rewrite to do that for you; this > would be the most elegant methodology, but hardly the simplest.Would this mod_rewrite work so I could use URLs styled like www.domain.com/users/nickname/ ?You mention this isn't the simplest how difficult is this to implement? Can I make changes to this using webcat? E.g. Write out a line to its config file as needed when users make changes?>> I guess I could use your suggestion and wildcard the domain in DNS so I >> could end up using http://nickname.domain.com/ instead. That would probably >> be easier to configure, but I am not sure. > > > Sure, if you want to be editing your nickname.conf file and restarting > Apache everytime you make a change.I don't believe I would have to restart each time (but of course could be wrong) I believe I can just set the DNS up using a wildcard so that any request for a machine name that doesn't match an existing A or CNAME record would go to a listed IP, then I could use WC to grab the host and display the proper page.But then again, not having used Apache in a virtual domain configuration, I could be way wrong. > JohnGiven that I know I will start with approximately 10,000 users and would need to create these 10,000 folders with matching index.html file in each, and expect to grow this a great deal over the next few months (and hopefully continued growth) how would you set this up?My preference would be to use the www.domain.com/users/nickname/ style for now. But could handle going with the http://nickname.domain.com if I had to. I was hoping to use the latter method down the road as maybe a premium feature.ThanksDale ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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