Note:
This little guide is for Gandi AI users who have Apache2 installed on their servers. If you haven't installed Apache2 yet, you can do so via the Gandi AI interface (help) before applying this tutorial.This step is essential for your server to be organised according to the domains (virtual hosts) that will refer to it.
You will need to create and select a user for each virtualhost. This user (and of course the user "admin") will have access to the files of this virtualhost. This will allow you to share the management of the website corresponding to the virtualhost with another user.
Following which, you'll need to configure these virtual hosts by pointing them to the server (see below).
In the above example, you can see how a server can be configured according to the relevant virtual hosts.
The www and blog sub-domains for mysite.com, and the www sub-domain for johns-site.com will have their own folders on my server.
Once these virtual hosts point to your server, the following addresses will direct visitors to content hosted on your server:
http://www.mysite.com
http://blog.mysite.com
http://www.johns-site.com
Now let's take a look at one of the options available in this module's Advanced server administrator mode (make sure you have activated this mode at the top of the AI interface).
Warning:
Restricted access to your server for a user, as set up here, only concerns the use of FTP clients. If a user of yours connects to your server using SSH, he will have a much wider range of action. This function should therefore only used to give access to people you trust. Server-less friends, in other words. :)Note:
You won't be able to "see" your websites at your chosen domains unless you have pointed these domains to your server. To do so, please read the following tutorial:
Last modified: 23 Jun 2008 at 17:06 by samos z. (Gandi)