I've recently decided that I'm sick of writing config files by hand, and I'm looking for a nice web based panel for me to manage my websites with. At the moment, ISPconfig appears to be the most suitable for this task. But before i start using it, i would like to know more about it's inner workings. I'm currently trying to decipher the contents of vhost.conf.master I've setup a placeholder site "example.com" (with ssl enabled as well) and the config file (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/example.com.vhost) came out like this Code: <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot /var/www/example.com/web ServerName example.com ServerAlias www.example.com www.example.com ServerAdmin [email protected] ErrorLog /var/clients/client1/web1/log/error.log ErrorDocument 400 /error/invalidSyntax.html ErrorDocument 401 /error/authorizationRequired.html ErrorDocument 403 /error/forbidden.html ErrorDocument 404 /error/fileNotFound.html ErrorDocument 405 /error/methodNotAllowed.html ErrorDocument 500 /error/internalServerError.html ErrorDocument 503 /error/overloaded.html <Directory /var/www/example.com/web> Options FollowSymLinks Indexes AllowOverride Indexes AuthConfig Limit FileInfo Order allow,deny Allow from all # ssi enabled AddType text/html .shtml AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml Options +Includes </Directory> # cgi enabled ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/clients/client1/web1/cgi-bin/ AddHandler cgi-script .cgi AddHandler cgi-script .pl # mod_php enabled AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3 .php4 .php5 php_admin_value sendmail_path "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i [email protected]" php_admin_value upload_tmp_dir /var/clients/client1/web1/tmp php_admin_value session.save_path /var/clients/client1/web1/tmp #php_admin_value open_basedir /var/clients/client1/web1:/usr/share/php5 </VirtualHost> <IfModule mod_ssl.c> ########################################################### # SSL Vhost ########################################################### <VirtualHost *:443> DocumentRoot /var/clients/client1/web1/web ServerName example.com ServerAlias www.example.com www.example.com ServerAdmin [email protected] ErrorLog /var/clients/client1/web1/log/error.log SSLEngine on SSLCertificateFile /var/clients/client1/web1/ssl/example.com.crt SSLCertificateKeyFile /var/clients/client1/web1/ssl/example.com.key # cgi enabled ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/clients/client1/web1/cgi-bin/ AddHandler cgi-script .cgi AddHandler cgi-script .pl # ssi enabled AddType text/html .shtml AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml # mod_php enabled AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3 .php4 .php5 php_admin_value sendmail_path "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i [email protected]" php_admin_value upload_tmp_dir /var/clients/client1/web1/tmp php_admin_value session.save_path /var/clients/client1/web1/tmp #php_admin_value open_basedir /var/clients/client1/web1:/usr/share/php5 </VirtualHost> </IfModule> Could someone perhaps explain a bit more about all the possible config file outputs, because all the conditional <tmpl_if>....</tmpl_if> statements are very confusing to me.
ISPConfig doesn't write to the /etc/apache2/sites-enabled directory. I don't seem to understand your question.
This is somewhat true. /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ contains symlinks to files in /etc/apache2/sites-available which are written there by the code in "apache2_plugin.inc.php"
The conditional if's correspond directly to the options that are available in the ispconfig web interface for the website. For example if there is a conditional if for ssi, it corresponds to the checkbox ssi in the website settings. For the details what the different apache directives do you might want to take a look at the apache documentation: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/
I know what you mean, but that's not what I'm asking. I was referring to "<tmpl_if name='*'>", NOT "<IfModule mod_*.c>" Since no one has answered or for that matter understood my question, let me ask a more simple one. In how are variables such as "system_group" in<tmpl_var name='system_group'> defined, and how could I write a config file like the output of ispconfig by hand.
And I was talking about the <tmpl_if name='*'>, so I answered your questions already. Take a look at the website settings and you will see that the they correspond to the conditional if staements. The variables are defined in the apache plugin in /usr/local/ispconfig/server/plugins-available/
