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devbobo
Nov 29, 2009Aspirant
HOW TO: Hosting multiple websites
G'day Guys, For some time I've wanted to host multiple websites from a single ReadyNAS unit...I haven't had the time to investigate it. 1. Backup all the .conf files in /etc/frontview/apache 2....
WhoCares_
Nov 30, 2009Mentor
mdgm wrote: Ok. So yeah SSH installed would be a must.
See, there we go. When I started developing addons I was under the impression that it would be clear to users that having SSH enabled was mandatory before installing an addon. Well, turns out I was wrong.
mdgm wrote: Also a simple script to restore default conf files.
It'd be even easier than that. Just have Netgear modifiy Vhost.conf like suggested and add a line like
Include /etc/frontview/apache/VHost_user.conf
This file could exist as a 0 byte sized file to be filled by the addon. Make sure that a firmware reinstall overwrites the file with the 0 byte sized version and you're ... well ... somewhat safe there.
-Stefan
Edit: Still, I've been thinking about this a lot. And I've always come to the same conclusion: If you can do it, you don't need an addon. If you can't do it ... well, maybe then you shouldn't ;)
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