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Alex Angelico
Asked: 2012-07-23 09:34:37 +0800 CST

how to add web site programmatically in Linux VPS?

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I want to add a web site to a Centos VPS programmatically, I found many references to IIS, but nothing for Linux.

I have a site that lets the users create a customized web site. What I want is give the users the option to use their own domain.

So, when the user add his/her own domain (and point his/her domain to my DNS server) add this domain as an add-on domain to my server and also add a virtual host to apache....

any help will be appreciated...

Regards Alex

linux

3 Answers

  1. Something like cPanel or ISPconfig ?

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  2. You can install virtualmin and use their API via REST URL or run script remotely. It does mailboxes too.

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  3. Yes, this is simple. I've previously run a webfarm (using 1.3.27) with around 1000 vhosts configured on each server exactly like this - startup took a couple of seconds longer but otherwise there was little difference from a single vhost. Just specify a directory to contain the definitions for the vhosts (one per file) and set up a directory tree for each website. The machine I'm typing this at came with Apache 2.2 pre-configured to handle just such a case; in the httpd.conf there's a line:

    Include conf/vhosts.d/*.conf

    And the create a file, say example.com.conf containing:

     <VirtualHost example.com>
 ServerName example.com
 ServerAlias www.example.com
 DocumentRoot /var/vhosts/example.com/www
 CustomLog /var/vhosts/example.com/logs common
 ErrorLog /var/vhosts/example.com/logs
 </VirtualHost>

    You might want to create a user at the same time and point their home directory to the base locattion (/var/vhosts/example.com). I'd recommend disabling all cgi / shtml / php /symlinks etc unless you know how to configure these securely. Preferably allow override none too.

    An alternative approach is to use a wildcard vhost with all requests routed to your front controller which would then invoke specific bits of functionality - but this requires rather a lot of development effort.

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