Re: [modcfgldap-users] Ldap Vhost DocumentRoot problem ...

[Allie M. <al...@pa...>]

 > It seems that DocumentRoot variable is not updated.
 > I've tried to read this variable inside a php script.

I abandoned using modcfgldap for this very reason :(

This appears to be a limitation set by apache itself and that variable 
is not change-able.  This behavior also shows up using the mass 
VirtualHosting module.  I modified apache's source to change this 
behavior, and Bad Things Happened.

Because my installation only has apache dealing with a few hundred 
VirtualHosts at a time, using this external module turned out to be a 
pretty expensive operation compared to using conf files.  Even with 
caching set to a high value, the dependency on LDAP and and the frequent 
  queries made it all rather cumbersome.  I suspect that if I were 
running thousands of vhosts then a module like this would "pay for 
itself" by using less memory.

So I ended up deciding to do this in my httpd.conf:

Include vhosts.conf

And I run a script out of cron to generate the vhosts.conf file using 
the LDAP data and reload apache if necessary.  Works pretty well and is 
much more flexible.  DocumentRoot is set properly and I can also set 
other Apache and PHP variables in the generated file (logfile 
directives, open_basedir, temp_dir, include_dir, user and group, etc.)

Allie Micka
pajunas interactive, inc.
http://www.pajunas.com

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