Virtual Hosting

der.hans PLUGd@LuftHans.com
Sun, 7 Jan 2001 18:45:51 -0700 (MST)


Am 05. Jan, 1971 schwäzte John Albee so:

> We are in the process of converting our websites to our own servers instead
> of virtual hosting for our sites.  My question is about how to get it setup
> to work like the virtual servers in terms of ftp and system users.  I would
> much rather do this than something like NFS and in case we ever do offer
> virtual hosting, I want it to be accessible in the same way as any other
> virtual server.

No NFS is a good idea :). I would suggest making ssh available. If you
have to have ftp, require ftp over ssl. Haven't looked at that too much,
but I think it minimally encrypts the authentication and many mickey$oft
ftp apps support it.

ciao,

der.hans
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