Revision as of 19:35, 26 February 2009

Apache on Gentoo

Add the ServerName directive to the main configuration file (httpd.conf)
To create a virtual host, just create a new file in /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/ with the name starting with 2 digits. For example:

01_images.shoopz.com.conf

On this file, you just need to define your virtual host, nothing else is required.
You don't need to duplicate the default_vhost.include which is in fact included from httpd.conf.

The APC module provided by Gentoo (pecl-apc) directly installs the necessary configuration options to use APC right away.
Note however that pecl-apc-3.0.19 is incompatible with mediawiki-1.11.2. APC must be disabled until a newer version works better with Mediawiki.

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 * On this file, you just need to define your virtual host, nothing else is required.
 * You don't need to duplicate the default_vhost.include which is in fact included from httpd.conf.
-== webapp-config ==
-* webapp-config is a Gentoo only tool to allow a single web applications to be correctly installed into multiple virtual hosts. This is nice as it allows the code to remain on a standard, Portage managed place while you can easily deploy your web applications into production.
-* Currently the way it works is by creating a directory corresponding to the application inside the specified virtual host. By default it will be installed in /var/www/<virtual_host_name>/htdocs; you can configure that by editing /etc/vhosts/webapp-config. I use the following convention:
- vhost_root="/srv/${vhost_subdomain_2}.${vhost_subdomain_1}/"
- vhost_htdocs_insecure="./"
-* In /etc/vhosts/webapp-config, you need to have a vhost_hostname variable that can conform to a fully qualified domain, eg localhost won't work. Put something like "elvanor.net" there.
-* The only problem is that webapp-config always creates icons, error, and cgi-bin directories in the virtual host directory if they are not there. I would prefer that not to happen.
-* When you need to update a web application, use the -U switch, eg:
- webapp-config -U -h elvanor.net -d phpmyadmin phpmyadmin 2.11.5
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