FreeVSD - Virtual Server Daemon

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I read through it and that's what I thought they were doing, but I wasn't
sure if you still used Apache with it or if they were maybe just creating
extensions to Apache or some other existing software.   You cleared it up
for me though.   I was recently reading up on hosting multiple IPs on NT
Server through IIS and this sounded similar, yet WAY more secure and
segregated for the hosting.   But again I'm new to a lot of this and trying
to learn.

I think it was my second KCLUG meeting when Ed and Rich were trying to
explain Class A,B and C IP licenses and subnets to me when I realized I had
a long way to go.   By the way, it makes sense to me now Rich.  Thanks for
your patience in not swinging the clue bat.   This is why I like working
with computers so much better than my previous profession.   People are
actually willing to explain things or point you in the right direction.
Later,
Brian
----- Original Message -----
From: Pat Padgett <pat.padgett at cephas.com>
To: <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: kclug - FreeVSD - Virtual Server Daemon

> At 12:32 PM 1/14/00 -0600, you wrote:
> >As Pat Padgett noted: the owner of the virtual domain has root
privileges.
> >Is this really the same as what Apache or Zope allow?   Don't they just
> >allow privileges to a HTML directory for the pages in the domain and
> >pointers to that directory when an IP request comes in?
>
> Like I said, don't confuse FreeVSD with a webserver.  FreeVSD is a
virtual
> server daemon that will allow you to create virtual linux servers.  To
host
> web sites on a virtual server you would still need to install a webserver
> (ie apache).
>
> You may be asking yourself, what is a "virtual linux server" and what
could
> I do with it? To answer this let me illustrate one use for it.  Say you
are
> web hosting provider and wish to allow users to have administrative
> accounts for their web sites so they may configure their web server
> differently (add support for php or mod_ssl for instance).  It is
necessary
> for you to have root privileges to compile and install these apache
> modules.  The FreeVSD software will allow you to setup a "sandbox" where
> the user has root privileges and access to the / (root) filesystem.  The
> root filesystem is actually mapped to the users home directory (via hard
> links) and anything that they install isn't actually installed to
> /usr/local/apache/libexec, but /home/user/usr/local/apache/libexec,
though
> existing binaries like /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd are just hard links.
>
> I hope this helps explain what you can do with this software.
>
> Check out their web page: http://www.freevsd.org/ as it can answer many
of
> your questions.
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