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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.
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Note that there is a disadvantage with specifying specific log files per virtual hosts because you can run out of file descriptors. The pro of course is simplicity and easy separation of your logs. There may be alternatives but don't hold your breath for me to find a solution and publish it. My clients rarely keep more than 3 virtual sites on the same machine.
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There's much more to Apache than this. For example, we could set up public and private Online Shares. If you are serving real traffic you might want to read the next step about configuring logging. If you are just playing around then you can skip to setting up an application server.
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