On 1/19/99 2:18 PM Stephen Turner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>I get a lot of queries about how to set up analog with virtual hosts. Can
>anyone tell me why so many people are confused about this? Or what I can do
>to the documentation to help them?
A big fundamental problem with Apache is that it is a common novice error
to support multipule virtual hosts in one log file with no way to
distinguish which log lines go with which host.
Another is that Analog can be configured many different ways, command
line, analhead.h, analog.cfg, a manditory config file, or multipule
seperate configurations files. How is one to pick between those
approaches.
The Appache documentation is not clear about what approach to take
either. If you read the entire document you can begin to see the
flexibility and range of options, but no one does that. There are way to
many choices that people have no way to pick between, such as combined or
seperate log files, include or don't include the virtual host name in the
log. Most of the combinations work so which one do I tell someone to use?
How can they even figure out (let alone you or me) if they already made
these decisions or someone else made them for them?
The only way to resolve it is to have an entire tutorial that explains
the "one true way" to configure everything. People who want to do it
another way just need to understand everything on their own. Unfortunatly
that must include seperate instructions for each web server, since in
Apache you probably want seperate logs and in WebSTAR you want a single
combined log but make sure to include the server name, and on and on.
Actualy what users probably want is the "magic" read my Apache
configuration file and do something based on that procedure.
Jason
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