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/etc/apache2/apache2.conf - this is the default file provided during install and contains the default settings. If possible do not modify this file.
/etc/apache2/httpd.conf - location for global user configured options.
/etc/apache2/site-available/* - this is where you store your different virtual hosts.
/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/* - symbolic links here used to enable sites from site-available.
This is enough to get us started, but feel free to read more details at Control-Escape.
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- I want clients to come in and manage the pure html aspects of their website, so each website will have it's own group and clients will belong to the website's group.
- Logging will be Virtual Host Based Logging. The pros and cons are are discussed in Apache Log Management.
- Each virtual host will also have a,
- browse-able "shared" folder to easily distribute files
- "shared.private' where .htaccess is enabled so users can set their own authentication parameters and indexing
- Most people only have one IP address to I'll use the "name based" hosting approach.
I find this approach is complex enough to address the needs of even complex banking applications and at the same simple enough to implement for the intermediate level user.
Create Virtual Host Files
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