How to change the home dir of sub-servers

Submitted by signet on Wed, 06/09/2010 - 06:43 Pro Licensee

Hi,

A customer of us who uses Virtualmin Pro 3.78 and is migrating a lot (about 300) of sites from a old server to this new server.

Because a lot of sites uses hard-coded references, I changed a lot of paths in the server templates for Apache. This is working as a charm, except for sub-servers. When the user creates a sub-server (so that the customer of the site has only one login for all his domains) the customer wants the following layout:

/home/eeterweb/eeterijdedungensebrug.nl (virtual server). /home/eeterweb/graadmeter.com (sub-server site)

I looked everywhere in Virtualmin and on the forums. Can you help me out?

Thanks,

Justin.

Status: 
Closed (fixed)

Comments

Submitted by JamieCameron on Wed, 06/09/2010 - 12:40

Unfortunately, there is no way currently to configure Virtualmin to use this kind of scheme.

The closest you can get is to put each domain's directory at /home/username/domains/maindomain.com , /home/username/domains/anotherdomain.com . Would that work for you?

Submitted by signet on Thu, 06/10/2010 - 07:16 Pro Licensee

Hi Jamie,

Thanks for the reply, we will do it with symlinks, that should work to.

Another question, the customer wants to be able to go to www.domain.tld/awstats to view the awstats statistics. Per default it is only possible if you type /awstats.pl after the URL. We can change it after the creation of the virtual server, but with 300+ sites it is not the most ideal situation.

Can I change and use the Apache server template for this or will that be a problem with the awstats configuration that Virtualmin does when creating a virtual server.

Thanks again.

Justin.

Submitted by JamieCameron on Thu, 06/10/2010 - 13:18

You could add an Apache redirect from /awstats to awstats.pl in the default template, in the Apache Webserver section. This would avoid having to add it to each virtual server separately..

Submitted by signet on Thu, 06/17/2010 - 05:58 Pro Licensee

Hi Jamie,

Thanks, it worked out for us by adding
RewriteRule ^/awstats$ /cgi-bin/awstats.pl [R,L]
RewriteRule ^/awstats/$ /cgi-bin/awstats.pl [R,L]

in the httpd.conf file.

Submitted by Issues on Thu, 07/01/2010 - 18:20

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.