Phill Pafford's questions

Let me explain what I'm trying to do:

• I'm creating a Linux Distro Image that will be installed on a SD Card
• Setting the default hostname to myHostname.local
• This is all on my local network

This is fine if I only have 1 server, but what about if I run an additional server. How does the hostname work as both hosts would now be the same name.

• myHostname.local <-- server 1
• myHostname.local <-- server 2

Does Avahi offer a way to dynamically change the hostnames? Something like this:

• myHostname1.local <-- server 1
• myHostname2.local <-- server 2

any suggestions?

so I have site1.com and 192.168.1.100

If I use the IP address Apache doesn't work for site1.com, if I use site1.com the IP address doesn't work. Thoughts?

Can I get both?

I need to access the IP and site1.com and have them point to different directories ( different projects )

Site1.com

#NameVirtualHost site1.com:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

        DocumentRoot /home/www/site1.com/current/web
        ServerName site1.com
        ServerAlias site1.com

        <Directory />
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride None
        </Directory>
        <Directory /var/www/site1.com/current/web/>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride None
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/app_error.log

        # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
        # alert, emerg.
        LogLevel warn

        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/app_access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

IP Address

NameVirtualHost 192.168.1.100:80
<VirtualHost 192.168.1.100:80>
#<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

        DocumentRoot /home/www/ip/current/
        ServerName 192.168.1.100
        ServerAlias 192.168.1.100

        <Directory /home/www/ip/current/>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride None
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/ip_error.log

        # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
        # alert, emerg.
        LogLevel warn

        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/ip_access.log combined


</VirtualHost>

UPDATED with Solution

Site1.com

#NameVirtualHost site1.com:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

        DocumentRoot /home/www/site1.com/current/web
        ServerName site1.com
        ServerAlias site1.com

        <Directory />
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride None
        </Directory>
        <Directory /var/www/site1.com/current/web/>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride None
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/app_error.log

        # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
        # alert, emerg.
        LogLevel warn

        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/app_access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

IP Address

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

        DocumentRoot /home/www/ip/current/
        ServerName 192.168.1.100
        #ServerAlias 192.168.1.100

        <Directory /home/www/ip/current/>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride None
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/ip_error.log

        # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
        # alert, emerg.
        LogLevel warn

        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/ip_access.log combined


</VirtualHost>

Looking to replace/port my home number which I use for mainly faxing for my home business to a PBX server ( Thinking Asterisk or Elastix ).

My question is:

1. Does Asterisk/Elastix support Faxing ( Incoming / Outgoing )
2. Does Asterisk/Elastix support Google Voice

Here is what I'm looking to do:

Run some sort of PBX software from my own home server that will allow me to use Google Voice for my home number, possibly allow multiple Google voice ( Though I could live with just the one ) and must support Faxing ( Incoming and Outgoing ). Would Asterisk/Elastix support all of this or would you recommend something else for this? Looking to avoid some of the pitfalls that could happen

I like Ubuntu if a Linux environment is needed

Possible Duplicate:
Easiest way to create a custom linux distribution

I did see this post:

• https://serverfault.com/questions/215628/easiest-way-to-create-a-custom-linux-distribution

And wanted to know if there is a new process for this?

Also I wanted to know if I could pre-install select packages?

Say I want a LAMP server but with PostgreSQL instead of MySQL and I want several Python packages as well as some custom code.

I think Ubuntu would be my choice for the OS if that makes a difference.

Looking for:

• tools
• tutorials
• any help at all...

Thanks in advance.

BTW This would be my first attempt at something like this

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