InstantMirror-0.2 Release

[Nathanael D. Noblet]

chasd wrote:
>> http://fedorapeople.org/~wtogami/temp/InstantMirror-release/InstantMirror-0.2-0.fc8.src.rpm 
>>
> 
> Runs on F7 too.
> Thank you for this, it works well in our small business environment 
> where conserving bandwidth to the internet is important.
> 
>> We still don't have a hosted.fp.org project setup yet so the above is
>> only the temporary location.  Until we have that permanent project
>> setup, please report bugs and make suggestions for improvement here in
>> this thread.
> 
> The included InstantMirror.conf file that goes into /etc/httpd/conf.d/ 
> stomps on any other configuration you may have set up.
> Because the file name starts with an upper case "eye" it is loaded first 
> by the
> 
> Include conf.d/*.conf
> 
> directive. It becomes the _default_ host for everything on port 80.
> You can check how that works by
> 
> /usr/sbin/httpd -S
> mv /etc/httpd/conf.d/InstantMirror.conf 
> /etc/httpd/conf.d/zInstantMirror.conf
> /usr/sbin/httpd -S
> ( move it back if you prefer the stomping behavior )
> 
>  From <http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/name-based.html>
> 
>> Main host goes away
>>
>> If you are adding virtual hosts to an existing web server, you must 
>> also create a <VirtualHost> block for the existing host. The 
>> ServerName and DocumentRoot included in this virtual host should be 
>> the same as the global ServerName and DocumentRoot. List this virtual 
>> host first in the configuration file so that it will act as the 
>> default host.
> 
> This directive
> 
>  NameVirtualHost *:80
> 
> should be uncommented in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
> and a <VirtualHost> directive should be set up for the default web 
> content, and should be loaded before the InstantMirror.conf file.
> 
> I have something that works with my test system, but I'm still not in a 
> position to make a bomb-proof generalized config file recommendation. It 
> seems using VirtualHost is the best way to create the Instant Mirror, 
> but integrating that into an existing apache conf needs to be handled 
> with a bit more care. This could be communicated with better comments or 
> additional commented out directives in the provided InstantMirror.conf 
> file.
> 
> I use several files in conf.d to create aliases and WebDAV collections 
> for calendaring and file sharing on our main server. I haven't tested 
> yet with all those conf files mixed in.
> 
> Also, I think separating the logging is a good thing to do with 
> directives such as
> 
> ErrorLog logs/mirror-error_log
> CustomLog logs/mirror-access_log
> 
> within the InstantMirror virtual host block.
> That way when the python script throws a hissy fit about file 
> permissions, it is easier to find.

Just recently I setup a new system, previously I had all my virtual 
hosts in one virtual.conf that I included by doing a
include conf/virtual.conf

from the httpd.conf. I just switched it to multiple files, one for each 
virtual host, they are now included by doing

include virtual.d/*conf

Perhaps if httpd were re-tooled to setup virtual hosts in that manner? 
or should I have put my virtual hosts in the conf.d directory? I just 
seemed cleaner to separate sites from what seemed like modular configs..

Anyway the point of this rambling is if we had something like that, 
system that use httpd/apache could add a virtual host config to 
httpd/virtual.d/ and not step on each others toes.

-- 
Nathanael D. Noblet