RE: [cobalt-users] SubDomain question - How to create one...

["Dan Kriwitsky" <list1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Dan Kriwitsky wrote :
> > Just look in the archive for an included .conf file or add the 
> > subdomain to DNS and put the virtual host container in access.conf 
> > pointing to /home/sites/site#/web/whatever/
> 
> I just wanted to add my experience with this. A while ago I 
> did the above with one of my sites, and it ended up throwing 
> my admin panel out of synq, which caused problems with adding 
> new sites through the control panel. Now, it could have been 
> because I implemented it wrong, however the only way I could 
> resolve the problem was to rebuild the server and do a restore.
> 
> I have since been told that if I want this kind of 
> functionality I should go for a White box using Webmin, which 
> I intend to do if the need arises again.
> 

I have dozens of domains done this way on my RaQ using an "extra" .conf
file called in httpd.conf.

A typical domain in the file:

<VirtualHost 123.456.78.90>
ServerName www.sub.sample.com
ServerAdmin admin
DocumentRoot /home/sites/site31/web/sub
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}                !^123.456.78.90(:80)?$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}                !^sub.sample.com(:80)?$
RewriteRule ^/(.*)                      http://sub.sample.com/$1 [L,R]
RewriteOptions inherit
AliasMatch ^/~([^/]+)(/(.*))? /home/sites/site31/users/$1/web/$3
ServerAlias sub.sample.com
#the site shares a cgi folder with the main domain
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/sites/site31/web/cgi-bin/
#the site shares an images folder with the main domain
Alias /images/ /home/sites/site31/web/images/
AddHandler cgi-script .asp
AddHandler cgi-wrapper .cgi
AddHandler cgi-wrapper .pl
AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .html .shtml
</VirtualHost>

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C2003 Dan Kriwitsky

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