Sep

24

Apache virtual hosts

September 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Good post Vikram!! To add to it, a single computer using apache web server can serve as multiple websites as if they are on separate hosts using the same concept. There are two ways to do it.
1. Creating a name-based virtual host
2. Creating an ip based virtual host
What you just created was a namebased virtual host. incase of an ip based virtual you skip the ServerName.
For hosting multiple sites using ip addresses.
NameVirtualHost *
<VirtualHost *>
ServerAdmin mail@vikramsolia.com
DocumentRoot /home/vikram/public_html
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost XXX.XXX.XXX.102>
ServerAdmin mail@navindutta.com
DocumentRoot /home/nave/public_html
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost XXX.XXX.XXX.103>
ServerAdmin mail@jaigupta.com
DocumentRoot /home/jai/public_html
</VirtualHost>
For multiple web domains on the same computer
NameVirtualHost *
<VirtualHost *>
ServerName www.vikramsolia.com
ServerAlias vikramsolia.com
ServerAdmin mail@vikramsolia.com
DocumentRoot /home/vikram/public_html
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost XXX.XXX.XXX.102>
ServerName www.navindutta.com
ServerAlias navindutta.com
ServerAdmin mail@navindutta.com
DocumentRoot /home/nave/public_html
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost XXX.XXX.XXX.103>
ServerName www.jaigupta.com
ServerAlias jaigupta.com
ServerAdmin mail@jaigupta.com
DocumentRoot /home/jai/public_html
</VirtualHost>

A single computer using apache web server can serve as multiple websites as if they are on separate hosts using the same concept. There are two ways to do it.

1. Creating an ip-based virtual host

2. Creating a name-based virtual host

For hosting multiple sites using ip addresses.

NameVirtualHost *

<VirtualHost *>

ServerAdmin mail@navindutta.com

DocumentRoot /home/navindutta/public_html

</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost XXX.XXX.XXX.102>

ServerAdmin mail@navin.com

DocumentRoot /home/navin/public_html

</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost XXX.XXX.XXX.103>

ServerAdmin mail@nave.com

DocumentRoot /home/nave/public_html

</VirtualHost>

For multiple web domains on the same computer

NameVirtualHost *

<VirtualHost *>

ServerName www.navindutta.com

ServerAlias navindutta.com

ServerAdmin mail@navindutta.com

DocumentRoot /home/navindutta/public_html

</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost XXX.XXX.XXX.102>

ServerName www.navin.com

ServerAlias navin.com

ServerAdmin mail@navin.com

DocumentRoot /home/navin/public_html

</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost XXX.XXX.XXX.103>

ServerName www.nave.com

ServerAlias nave.com

ServerAdmin mail@nave.com

DocumentRoot /home/nave/public_html

</VirtualHost>

May

23

Moodle mod rewrite

May 23, 2010 | 2 Comments

# Turn on rewrites.
RewriteEngine on

# Only apply to URLs on this domain
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?mysite.com$

# Only apply to URLs that aren’t already under folder.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/moodledir/

# Don’t apply to URLs that go to existing files or folders.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# Rewrite all those to insert /folder.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /moodledir/$1

# Also redirect the root folder.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?mysite.com$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ moodledir/index.php [L]

Please note that this would work for all file url requests like view.php or index.php but not file.php requests. Another rule needs to be written for that.

May

23

Moodle migration in 3 steps

May 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment

1. Copy all files from the root of your Moodle installation and the moodle data directory.

#rsync -av -e ssh sourse/ username@newserver.com:/path/to/destination/

2. Dump your Moodle database and import it it new server

#mysqldump –allow-keywords –opt -uMySQL_USERNAME -pPASSWORD DATABASE | ssh username@newserver.com “mysql -uMySQL_USERNAME -pPASSWORD DATABASE”

3. Edit config.php to update all database access details, file paths and web location

Finally test everything and fix any link errors using http://newserver.com/moodle/admin/replace.php Thats all ;-)