Re: [Boa-devel] Name-based VirtualHost

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On 2003-01-23 09:32:00, dmahurin wrote:
> Change VirtualHost from a logical switch to one that takes a parameter of=
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> "ip", "name" or possibly "both". With no parameter, it defaults to "ip", =
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> be compatible with the current behavior.

"hostname" might be more descriptive than "name", and I suggest adding
"interface" to the mix.  It would probably be cleaner to accept multiple
VirtualHost options or just allow an ordered list as the argument that
then map appropiately to the directory structure (interface,hostname=20
would be ideal for me, while others may simply want hostname).

Let's not lose the feature we have now, which allows us to serve
different content based on the interface the request came in on
(if either ip or interface is given).

It might be worth thinking about hashing to keep a small number of
entries in directories i.e. hash(hostname) (and may hash(ip)).  We
probably do not want the flxibility of mod_vhost_alias.html, a simple
user defined function might do although regex would be groovy :-)

> Also relative paths in Alias and ScriptAlias should be made relative to t=
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> effective document root.
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> With "ScriptAlias /cgi-bin abc/cgi-bin",
> and "VirtualHost name",

Good idea, but I am not sure that I like the relative paths.  What about
using the same mapping as specified in the VirtualHost option so:

VirtualHost ip,hostname
ScriptAlias /usr/local/lib/cgi-bin /cgi-bin

would mean that we check in /usr/local/lib/cgi-bin/ip/hostname,
then /usr/local/lib/cgi-bin/ip and finally /usr/local/lib/cgi-bin
(again, retain the seperation between ip/interfaces).  Not sure
if this would cause performance issues though.

I would love to work on this at some point, but I pressed for time, so
if anyone is interested please feel free.


/Allan
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Allan Wind
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