Ultimate hosting server setup
It's gonna run Apache, MySQL, PHP, PostFix, ProFTPd, OpenSSL, ModSSL with pop, ftp and web based authentication being controlled by a central mysql database. PostFix and ProFTPd support authentication via mysql.
There's also a nifty little tool allowing system password authentication to be done via MySQL (http://libnss-mysql.sourceforge.net/) that I might add in.
I'm fully capable and happy to develop a proprietory support system that allows a new customer to create a client account, set up web space, create pop/ftp users, etc...
Apache configuration will probably be done using mod_rewrite and a lookup table (file) to avoid having to modify apache conf on the fly and restart apache for every new host.
My questions are:
1. Has anyone been through this/considered this and have any thoughts, comments or suggestions about either the setup/configuration or support site coding?
2. Can you see a flaw in using mod_rewrite to emulate the virtualhosts? Will it be too processor intensive?
3. Anyone know how to emulate/configure the virtualhosts from mysql or some other way I haven't thought of yet?
Another thing I'm trying to work out is how to have separate log files for separate FQDNs given that the mod_rewrite method will mean one real virtualhost, hence one log file statament, but I might get around that problem with a utility similar to cronolog.
Cheers
Ben
