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[zan]

Hi,

Im having a bit of trouble and am thinking that maybe im taking the wrong approach, or there is another method / hack of doing what I wish to do...

rather than filling up my httpd.conf file with a mass of virtual hosts this is what I plan to do.

Code:
==httpd.conf====8<=======

<VirtualHost *:80>
    LogFormat "%v %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" vhostv
    CustomLog logs/access_log.amserver vhostv
    ErrorLog logs/error_log.amserver
    VirtualDocumentRoot /var/server/hosts/config/hosts/%0/html
    VirtualScriptAlias /var/server/config/hosts/%0/cgi
</VirtualHost>
========>8============


Then in the directory /var/server/hosts/config/hosts/ I would have the following...

domain.com -> /var/server/virtual/site1/jail/var/www
www.domain.com -> /var/server/virtual/site1/jail/var/www

So I hope people can see what im doing here...

basically Im doing this so;
1. I dont have a big virtual hosts section
2. I dont have to restart apache everytime i want to add a host, i just add the symbolic link for the host name and where i want it to point to...
3. Im doing this as im writing software so that I can manage all this stuff thru a control panel, and this method would be easier and safer than giving someone thru a control panel access to (not directly of course...) edit httpd.conf and restart apache...

SO............ THIS ALL WORKS FINE.... NO PROBLEMS AT ALL!!!

HOWEVER..... My problem is.. say I want to run php on this virtual host, for some strange reason the DocumentRoot doesnt get set by apache. Which as you can see is very annoying...

for example: say i create the file...

=======8<=======
<?php echo $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']; ?>
=======>8=======

it returns...

/var/www/html

which is apache's default doc root..



Has anyone experienced this, and if they did how did they get around it... Ive been trying to nut this one out for a couple of days, seems like other people have experienced this problem as well, and some people have hacks where they mod php then recompile... i dont really want to do this for several reasons (like if i ever want to upgrade... il have to do this again...)

Thanks