Virtual Hosts - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 SP2 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION Installation Manual

Virtual Hosts

In this step, the wizard displays a list of already configured virtual hosts (see Section
"Virtual Host Configuration" (page 750)). If you have not made manual changes prior
to starting the YaST HTTP wizard, no virtual host is present.
To add a host, click Add to open a dialog in which to enter basic information about the
host. Server Identification includes the server name, server contents root
(DocumentRoot), and administrator e-mail. Server Resolution is used to determine
how a host is identified (name based or IP based). Specify the name or IP address with
Change Virtual Host ID
Clicking Next advances to the second part of the virtual host configuration dialog.
In part two of the virtual host configuration you can specify whether to enable CGI
scripts and which directory to use for these scripts. It is also possible to enable SSL. If
you do so, you must specify the path to the certificate as well. See Section 40.6.2,
"Configuring Apache with SSL" (page 778) for details on SSL and certificates. With
the Directory Index option, you can specify which file to display when the client requests
a directory (by default, index.html). Add one or more filenames (space-separated) if
you want to change this. With Enable Public HTML, the content of the users public
directories (~user/public_html/) is made available on the server under
http://www.example.com/~user.
IMPORTANT: Creating Virtual Hosts
It is not possible to add virtual hosts at will. If using name-based virtual hosts,
each hostname must be resolved on the network. If using IP-based virtual hosts,
you can assign only one host to each IP address available.
Summary
This is the final step of the wizard. Here, determine how and when the Apache server
is started: when booting or manually. Also see a short summary of the configuration
made so far. If you are satisfied with your settings, click Finish to complete configura-
tion. If you want to change something, click Back until you have reached the desired
dialog. Clicking HTTP Server Expert Configuration opens the dialog described in
Section "HTTP Server Configuration" (page 759).
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