On 8/27/07, Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Christoph, > > The problem is not about the installer - it's about his customer... > Usually, the "it works" page is left up by the ISP that owns the server > hardware. The customer, who owns the domain, comes along and thinks > apache has hijacked his site. Hence he flames apache... > > The point is that you are not writing for developers. You are writing > for technically incompetent web-site owners. > > -- > Apache2 default site contains only the words "It works!" > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/89364 > You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu > Server Team, which is a bug contact for apache2 in ubuntu. > There are so many issues in running a shared web server that the default web page falls into insignificance. Users sharing a web server need user space and an apache stanza to point to that web space. Operators of a shared web server have many choices all of them "bad".
Most of the "bad" choices involve management of apache, dns, mail, database and choose to do so with a "virtual" environment. Trying to mitigate the difficulty of managing accounts in a shared environment is a noble and difficult task. Most users of shared servers will have one of more domains they want served. Fail over requires control of DNS. Thus for each user, for each domain, he will need a DNS zone and an apache stanza. I have despaired of any workable solution in providing incoming mail service for those domains and have outsourced all of that to Google. Running a mail server in today's environment is a career not a project. The database issue is most easily handled by creating per user databases in MySQL. Easy to arrange for "real" users, less so for "virtual" users. The most nagging consequence is that users will have to leave database passwords lying around in clear text. Without some sort of UID/GID scheme all users have access to each other's passwords. So by all means, a checklist of the work to be done in setting up apache virtual servers would not be a bad thing. Implying that is all that is required would be would be. Jim Tarvid -- Apache2 default site contains only the words "It works!" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/89364 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
