Frank Boehme wrote:
> BTW, so far I haven't yet investigated whether my users can set up and
> use additional prefix-based hosts (assuming I provide a way that these
> hosts go to the host table of my page db). Would that be possible?
The host records they can add would go into their private database.
The 'live' host would match against that, and since the main
'admin.$user.com' would give access to their admin site I would think
they'd be able to maintain this. Haven't tried this BTW. They can in
fact add any host record they like, but since the hostname must match
against their VirtualHost ServerName, only entries that match 'their'
domain would actually do anything.
> But I am mainly wondering about something else: How could I watch their
> site development? I see the following solutions:
>
> 1. For *each* user admin site, I could add another virtual host with a
> MidgardAuthDatabase that points as well to the page db. Authentication
> would be against the page db and I could login there and see how they
> are doing.
>
> 2. The brutal way. I write a sql script that modifies the user dbs as
> follows: It *adds* an entry to the person table along with account
> details and also adds an entry to the member table to the effect that
> this new person is member of guid 0. If I leave firstname and lastname
> empty, then this person wouldn't even be listed as admin. I could use
> these credentials to login in any user-admin site. I could also have
> another script that removes these entries later on.
Both would work. I've updated
http://www.iris-advies.com/php/Emile.Heyns/autohost.conf for situation
1. Situation 2. could be easily set up during acount creation.
> 3. Suppose I build a working repligard. Would it currently enable me to
> 'snapshot' all user dbs to an existing admin site db in a 'merge'
> fashion? I would then have one db with loads of admin persons. I could
> add/modify the account details so that I can login there and examin
> things without any interference to users who are currently online.
Now that I think of it, I suppose that would work. Clever. Alexander?
BTW, just in case you aren't using this allready: if you have these
sites under domain www.accountname.lab.company.com, you can spare
yourself the DNS reloads by setting CanonicalName Off in apache and
setting up a wildcard domain for *.lab.company.com.
Emile
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