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. Backup all the .conf files in /etc/frontview/apache - so you can restore the originals if you screw something up !!!

3. Edit /etc/frontview/apache/Virtual.conf

Original file

<VirtualHost _default_:80>
  SSLEngine off
  RewriteEngine on

  RewriteRule ^/admin/(.*)$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}/admin/$1 [R,L]
</VirtualHost>

Modified file

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
  SSLEngine off
  RewriteEngine on

  RewriteRule ^/admin/(.*)$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}/admin/$1 [R,L]
</VirtualHost>

4. Create a new my-virtual.conf file in /etc/frontview/apache/addons, this way it will be auto loaded without modifying any other files. The example below has definitions for two websites....add/remove as required.

my-virtual.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName www.example.com
  DocumentRoot /path/to/example.com
  <Directory /path/to/example.com>
    Options Indexes
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
  </Directory>
  <Location /index.html>
    SetHandler none
    Order Allow,Deny
    Allow from all
  </Location>
  SSLEngine off
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName www.domain.net
  DocumentRoot /path/to/domain.net
  <Directory /path/to/domain.net>
    Options Indexes
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
  </Directory>
  <Location /index.html>
    SetHandler none
    Order Allow,Deny
    Allow from all
  </Location>
  SSLEngine off
</VirtualHost>

5. shutdown apache, killall apache-ssl
6. restart apache, apache-ssl -f /etc/frontview/apache/httpd.conf
7. All done :D

CAVEATS
1. Toggling the state of HTTP within Frontview rewrites Virtual.conf so the above changes will be lost.

ReadyNAS Team
1. It would be nice if the above changes could be made to the format of /etc/frontview/apache/Virtual.conf, so that changes aren't overwritten
2. I currently have to add the Location element to undo a global definition within httpd.conf. It would be awesome if this was removed from httpd.conf and added to Virtual.conf as...

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
  <Location /index.html>                                                              
    SetHandler server-status                                                          
    Order Deny,Allow                                                                  
    Deny from all                                                                     
  </Location> 
  SSLEngine off
  RewriteEngine on

  RewriteRule ^/admin/(.*)$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}/admin/$1 [R,L]
</VirtualHost>

Cheers,

David