Search Again: Re: Multiple servers From: Shawn Hogan Date: Monday, March 1, 1999 Time: 8:57:20 am Aaron Lynch wrote: >into broken record mode... > >Shawn have you thought much about integrating better support for >multiple servers? > >Here's the deal, > >Regular users are assigned space on a UNIX machine. >E-Commerce Users are on a Mac. >Frontpage-using-Freaks, and Email only accounts are on NT. > >I, being the Laziest person in the world, would like to set up telnet >scripts that can add new users to the appropriate server automagically. >I spose I can set up 'personal' users to be 'unix' and 'business users' >to be E-commerce or something, but it sure would be great if when you >enter the user info it just had a 'home' server location or something, >with choices like server 1-5 or something (maybe even multiple choices >so a user would get accounts on two servers at once!) > >plus, then as you know I'd like the virtual hosts HTML to have the right >server in the URL > >Now, admittedly I could probably think of a dozen workarounds to >accomplish what I want, without making you do a lot of work, if I >applied myself, BUT as I said, I'm lazy, and 'sides you work so hard >anyway it'd be a shame if I did too wouldn't it? Sorry to keep harping >on you, but I was hoping for a yes/no/maybe response from you before I >break down and do something drastic (like work) Not going to happen, if you want to hav multiple servers, you will need a server-side script that does it... >PS, in the latest version, when I generate the Virtual hosts html, I get >http://myserver.com/~clientdomain.com/ instead of the correct >http://myserver.com/~clientlogin/ Then you set the "User Directory Based On Domain" to 'Yes' on Miscellaneous preferences. - Shawn ------------------------------- Shawn D. Hogan President, Data Point Solutions http://www.data-point.com (619) 452-3696 ICQ: 8319647 ------------------------------------------- To subscribe, unsubscribe and list archive please visit http://www.data-point.com/lists -------------------------------------------

Messages In This Thread: Multiple servers by Aaron Lynch on Mar 1, 1999 at 8:42:47 am Re: Multiple servers by Shawn Hogan on Mar 1, 1999 at 8:57:20 am