I’m preparing an IPv6 server to host all my projects. It’s so nice to start with a clean one.

First thing, I’ll use Apache2 with his wonderful Mass Virtual Hosting.
This will allow me to create a new web site named www.newwebsite.com only by creating the following directory : /home/hosts/www.newwebsite.com/

Nice isn’t it ?

I’m following this article: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/vhosts/mass.html

Here are all the command I used for Mass Hosting on Debian Etch:

root@strange:/etc/apache2/mods-enabled# ln -s ../mods-available/vhost_alias.load
mkdir /home/websites
mkdir /home/websites/www.example.com
mkdir /home/websites/www.example.com/online (for my online files)
mkdir /home/websites/www.example.com/offline (where I keep documents about the website)

Then I just replaced the content of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default by:

# get the server name from the Host: header
UseCanonicalName Off
# this log format can be split per-virtual-host based on the first field
LogFormat "%V %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %s %b" vcommon
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access_log vcommon
# include the server name in the filenames used to satisfy requests
VirtualDocumentRoot /home/websites/%0/online
VirtualScriptAlias /home/websites/%0/cgi-bin

Here we are… just have to configure www.example.com’s IP

Next step : SVN Server. I’ll keep a backup of every versions of my projects…