I'm looking at setting up a new server and am curious how exactly kolab will deal with virtual domains. Will you be able to set up "virtual groupware"? Not that I think that would be particularly efficient, but I'm curious.
Nick On Sunday 08 January 2006 6:14 pm, Andrew J. Kopciuch wrote: > > other things for you. But it does have some limits. First, Kolab as it > > stands right now does not support virtual domains. Second, it installs > > into a chrooted environment (good for security), and this environment > > captures port 80, as well as the various email/pop3/imap ports. This > > means that you cannot easily install Kolab onto a box with an existing > > web server. Ideally though, email should be on a separate server > > anyways, so this may not be much of a problem for some. > > That is actually not true. Kolab supports virtual domains ... because > postfix does. Kolab does not support multiple virtual domains in the > default setup in the current stable release of the server. You have to > configure the setup yourself as you normally would with a postfix server. > It does become slightly more complicated to setup because you have to know > how Kolab works internally. Many people have done it already, but it is > not the easiest task to accomplish. > > Multiple domain support is available in the development snapshots, and beta > releases for version 2.1 > > As for the ports ... it is quite simple to change the ports Kolab services > run on to avoid this conflict. I do it all the time. It runs apache, so > just like any other apache configuration, you can modify the Listen > directives and the host settings to use an alternate port. > > As for mail + web running on the same server ... that's perfectly > acceptable. Should we run a different server for ftp, and a different > server for DNS, and a different server for samba shares or SVN or CVS as > well? If you have the resources and ability to combine services onto the > same machine I would think you would make use of that instead of having > underutilized machines. If the situation demands a dedicated server ... by > all means. There is no harm is running them all together though. > > Andy > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
