User's home pages
Server for providing user's home pages, giving each user her own
domain using IP-less virtual hosting.
- Create a virtual server using the Generic server type.
- Configure the Server variables for a virtual server that should
handle the IP-less virtual hosting.
- Configure a port, preferably 80 which is the standard
HTTP port.
- Configure DNS
For each user to get her own domain these domains need to be
configured in DNS. The easiest way to do this is to use a CNAME-post
with a wild card, that way you don't have to configure each domain
individually. Such a post could look like this:
*.user CNAME www
You need a late version of bind 8 for this to be supported.
- Configure the User Filesystem module.
To enable the virtual user hosting you need to set the Virtual
User Hosting variable. You might also need to configure the
Public directory variable, to the directory in the user's
home directory that should contain their web pages.
- Configure the User database and security
module.
The User database and security module communicates
with the operating systems user database in order to find and
authenticate users.
- Click Save to save the server configuration on disk.
The server will also try opening the port. You will be asked if the
chosen URL for the site is correct. If you want to use another port
than 80, you probably need to alter this.
Note: Ports below 1024 can only be used if the server is run, or at
least started, as root.
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