[mythtv-users] alt lightweight web servers for MythTV?

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Hika,

Friday, April 10, 2015, 4:35:00 PM, you wrote:

> Hoi James,

> Friday, April 10, 2015, 3:27:22 PM, you wrote:

>> On Fri, 10 Apr 2015, Rich Freeman wrote:

>>> I've never actually used it.  I'd read up on the docs for
>>> webapp-config with nginx in general.

>> Thanks for bringing webapp-config to my attention, Rich. I've looked over
>> the wiki article and it looks like that application might be helpful: the
>> fact that webapp-config is said to handle ownership/permissions issues is
>> certainly an attractive feature. But I've gotten a bit confused by 
>> statements made toward the beginning of the article, to the effect that
>> "webapp-config . . . is used for automatic setup of web applications in
>> virtual hosting environments" and "webapp-config is aimed at providing the
>> package management functionality that web server administrators need when
>> running multiple web sites off of the same computer (virtual hosting)."
>> These statements do not describe my scenario: I will run only one site
>> from my FE/BE machine, and that will (hopefully) be MythWeb. There is no
>> virtual hosting, so far as I can grasp that concept, in place here. Given
>> that no virtual hosting is in play, will webapp-config really be 
>> applicable to my situation?
>> _______________________________________________

> The man page for webapp-config is quite good. So read it. As Rick says
> you only need it if you have the vhost flag set, else any web
> application will get installed in it's own subdirectory (eg mythweb)
> in /var/www/localhost/htdocs. You access it through the machines ip or
> dns name followed by '/mythweb/' (or localhost if you're on the
> machine itself)
> If you have set the vhost flag it gets a bit more complicated (I
> assume nginx supports virtual hosting). You then set your dns to point
> a unique web address of your choosing to the IP of your server. You
> replace localhost in the directory path with that address and let
> webapp-config install it there. You now don't need a subdirectory
> under htdocs, for there is only one website there. You also have to
> adapt the configuration in your webserver to use that address and
> path. That way you can have numerous different web-addresses being
> served by the same server on the same ip-address, without reverting to
> subdirectories.

Emerge puts the web-apps in /usr/wepapps/<name>/<version> That way you
can also have several versions installed next to each other. eg Add the
new version for testing while keeping the old one for production.
I have several dns names for the web-apps I have running. eg
mythweb.home.dkw, mySQLAdmin.home.dkw, mail.home.dkw etc. all pointing
to the same ip-address. (home.dkw is my local domain you also can
choose freely. As long as it doesn't go to internet, for then you'll
need an official domain) 


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