RE: [cpx] How does CPX know what domains exist?

[Bill Meier <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:49 AM 04/14/2005, you wrote:
> This is crazy.  A test URL like this is a very normal situation.

I agree it is very normal. I tried to manage it with as little 
intervention/use of CPX. In fact, I didn't use CPX at all... I only had to 
clean up CPX when it saw that domain in httpd.conf and grabbed it as it's 
own... and I couldn't get it to give it up without zapping the real area. 
As you saw, the fix was the edit the raw conf file.

Personally, to do many of my server admin tasks, I find I still need a mix 
of raw Unix work (i.e. edit httpd.conf, vadduser, etc.) and CPX. To be 
honest, with CPX at its current level of functionality, it doesn't buy me 
much of anything... but I have decided to try and use it because it is the 
new hot piece of software.

At the moment, the only value of CPX is that about two of the fifty (small) 
domains I host have been pleased they can edit their email addresses for 
their domain.

I know CPX will get better... but when you have to do a piece in CPX and 
then another piece by hand (or just try and subvert CPX) you know it's not 
quite the right tool yet...

I'm moving all my domains from a working VPS2 server to an empty VPS2 
server, and setting things up the "CPX way" -- so far CPX hasn't been 
really helpful at all in terms of moving domains, users, and files from one 
machine to another. Granted, that's not it purpose but it seems to get in 
the way more than it helps...

Some of these have been already noted as suggestions, and confirmed they 
will be implemented. But, after I run CPX to add a domain, I have to go in 
and remove the AccessLog /dev/null because I want to just keep a master log 
file for the entire server.


I liked the "old style" view of your web hosts. Look in
        /www/vhosts
and find all your web sites. Look at them, fiddle them, etc. Now, you have 
to remember what domain is buried under what username and navigate into 
that users /home/name/www/domain.com (this is with FTP). I have decided I 
like the /www/vhosts/ listing ALL the domains, that I have manually created 
symbolic links to each domain in that area to point to the 
/home/user/www/whatever area.

Then I can have it my way. If I want a view of the users, I look in /home 
and find them all. If I want a view of all the domains, I look in 
/www/vhosts/ (assuming I have kept the links up... perhaps this would be an 
option in CPX?) It IS nice to have the "domain view" of the file system 
when working at the shell or with FTP.

One simple use I have had for this "domain view" is I want to quick look in 
their web area and see if there is a robots.txt -- if not, I put one in 
that allows access to all -- just to avoid all the 404 errors in the 
logs... Perhaps there is a real fancy shell script that you could make that 
says "Find all the domains from traversing down /home/user paths and tell 
me all the ones without a robots.txt" -- I'm not skilled enough to do that, 
and with FTP it is one simple click to go from a list of domains to the 
contents of any given domain. IF all the domains are listed in one area.

Any other people have thoughts about "how do I look at all my domains"? Or 
am I just looking at the "model" wrong?

Bill

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