Steve Steiner wrote:
If you have control of the server, adding a virtual host takes about
five minutes.
It's not so much that, as the way it has to happen. I do it all the
time on my local dev boxes, but I do it by running vim and editing
httpd.conf and such directly.
For ruby-doc.org, there are other sites being hosted there, and some
other admin folks, and we've agreed to live with the admin tool and work
through it. So hand-editing certain files is risky because the tool
(plesk, by the way), might overwrite changes. (I've learned to Love The
Tool, as it does all sorts of handy stuff for me, it just took time to
figure out how to do things. )
But, I just did an experiment in creating a site that uses an existing
domain name, but has the form beta.*.com rather than www.*.com, and it
appears to have created a new virtual host, with its own htttpdocs
folder, etc., without clobbering www.*.com.
So, I should be able to create beta.ruby-doc.org and build an alternate
site without the current site getting in the way.
All very educational. :)
James
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