Re: [cobalt-users] Creating users for virtual sites...

["Dan" <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I have a raq3 with about 180 virtual sites on it.  When I want to change
the
> sites' username and password, it gives me errors like "user already
exists",
> but there are no users created on that specific site or "cannot convert
> vanilla unix to shadow password".
>

I was having this problem and it turned out to be duplications for virtual
sites within the httpd.conf file.

What I did was print the contents of my httpd.conf file (in /etc/httpd/conf)
and look for duplicate entries (in my case I had, for example, two seperate
virtualhost entries for a domain name pointing to different home/sites site
numbers). I then deleted the <VirtualHost> </VirtualHost> blocks that were
duplicates domains pointing to the wrong site numbers, thus leaving the
correct ones.

The reason why this happend was (I think!) because in trying to implement
the SSL redirection fix, I downloaded the httpd.conf file and edited it in
notepad. I then uploaded it and rebooted. I think somewhere that Notepad
added a few characters and fouled up the httpd.conf so it was doing odd
things on reboot. I now use pico or Wordpad on my own system.

This process might take a bit of time if you have 180 virtual sites - that
is one long httpd.conf file! Instead of printing it out it might be better
to just methodically do a search on each domain name using Wordpad (that's
if you download a copy to your system) to make sure it it is not duplicated
in more than one <VirtualHost> </VirtualHost> block.

Dan