apache & Jails

Don Munyak don.munyak at gmail.com
Fri Aug 25 13:09:33 UTC 2006


On 8/25/06, albi <albi at scii.nl> wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 01:15:52 -0400
> "Don Munyak" <don.munyak at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I want to build a FreeBSD webserver to replace a M$ IIS web server.
> > I've started researching using Jails but am a little confused.
> >
> > Given I am hosting four(4) websites, would I have four separate jails.
> > each jail having a separate install of apache + php + mysql ?
> >
> > or would I be installing apache + php + mysql at the base system, and
> > then have four separate jails for each web site and database files ??
>
> there are even more possibilities :
> - 1 host, 1 jail, apache with virtual hosts
> - 1 host, 1 "build-jail", 4 apache-jails
> - 1 host, apache with virtual hosts
>
> do you have different ip-addresses for those websites ?

No for different IP's. Each will share a common IP. Apache would do
hostname redirecting for incoming requests...I presume. I guess in
this case the following would be the direction I'm headed

> - 1 host, 1 jail, apache with virtual hosts

Thanks again


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