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I’m trying to setup a server at http://www.domain.com that will allow me to create hosting accounts for each user I add.
Basically my goal is to create a user and map a name-based vhost to their home dir, so:
“joe.domain.com” would point to “/home/joe”
I’ve tried setting up vhosts in httpd.conf but I’m not having any luck and wondering if there’s a way to either 1. script this process or 2. setup some sort of variable in a generic vhost entry that will automatically create this entry.
Without knowing the details of your setup, I can tell you that:
Yes, you can script the process.
Apache configuration files are just text files, so it’s very easy to generate the programatically.
Yes, you can configure some sort of generic virtual host entry.
The Dynamically configured mass virtual hosting documentation from Apache addresses this case quite nicely.