creating subdomains via database

[windir]

I am currently running a web hosting service for personal web sites etc. (low traffic) and am having to manually create (named) virtual host subdomains in the httpd.conf and i was wondering if there was some way that i could get apache to use a database to get the properties of a subdomain i.e. the errorlog path and other commands.

I need to be able to set parameters for each subdomain individually because different subdomains require different parameters. Thanks in advance.

Kind Regards
Mark Rawson

 

[RhythmAce]

I'm not sure that everything you want to do can be done. You can avoid having to create a new virtual host for each new account by using mass vhosting. Check out this FAQ:

http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?spid=65&sfid=1836

There are scripts that allow you to offer webpages to your visitors but as far as being able to give each its own pars, I don't know. You might be able to find something here:

http://www.cgi-resources.com

 

[windir]

I have already looked into mass vhosting but it doesn't really give me what i need. I'll have a look at those sites. Any other ideas, anyone?

 

[Wullie]

Hi mate,

Why not create a script that will append the subdomain details to the end of the httpd.conf?

The only problem that I can see with this is that you would have to then restart Apache to get the changes to take effect. You could schedule a reboot every few hours or so if the httpd.conf has changed.

Hope this helps

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