Greetings Robert,Suppose you install it in a shared hosting environment. There will still only be one machine, but with multiple ip addresses (and hostnames).
I think I'm missing something here. Currently, if the start_url (or any subsequent link) specifies a numeric URL, then that is what ht://Dig uses. It seems to work on my system (192.168.0.29). It also works if I use the start_url as http://tower/ even though
host tower
fails.
What do you suggest the options should control?
If you particularly want to use numeric addresses for non-global IP addresses, how about something along the lines of
host=`hostname -f`
if host $host | grep 'not found' > /dev/null
then
host=`ping $host | head -1 | sed 's/[^(]*(\([^)]*\)).*/\1/'`
fi
sed "s-start_url:.*-start_url: http://$host/-"; < htdig.conf > Tmp
mv Tmp htdig.conf
I think that should find the appropriate name of the local host -- if the symbolic name can be found, then it will use that. Otherwise, it will use the numeric address.
Is that the sort of thing you are after?
Cheers,
Lachlan
www.customer1.com and www.customer2.com point to the same (physical) machine, but use different IP addresses.
for this reason a default like you point it out cannot work (or rather, will fail in such circumstances). It is imaginable that in such circumstances, we would have one ht://Dig installation with different config files for every customer.
We therefore need to ask for the hostname to use, bearing in mind there may be multriple.
What you point out (tower resolving to 192.168.0.29) is a feature of your local dns config (you might have bind configured that way, or have it in /etc/hosts) is a behaviour we cannot rely on. I don't know how it would work in a BSD-like envirnoment, or with MacOS..
What I therefore propose to do (for debian at least) is to use debconf to handle this, and to ask the user what they want. Whether the same mechanism can be used outside debian I am usure, since I don't know how portable debconf is.
Robert
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