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Virtfs User Guide

Afra Ahmad

v3.0, April 04 2001 - afra@prongs.org

This document covers why, how and where to set up Virtfs, a Perl script which aids in setting up virtual servers. Virtfs is ideal for medium sized ISP's hosting many virtual servers. This may seem a lot to read, but there isn't really.

1. Introduction

1.1 Is this for you?
1.2 How Virtfs works
1.3 virtuald
1.4 Advantages
1.5 Disadvantages

2. Documentation Revisions

3. Installation

4. tcp_virtuald

5. Pre-Setup: Template Filesystem

5.1 Template Filesystem
5.2 Setting up a template filesystem
5.3 Executing virt_template.pl

6. Creating Virtual Servers

6.1 Please check!
6.2 IP Aliasing
6.3 DNS
6.4 Virtuald
6.5 tcp_virtuald
6.6 Virtfs
6.7 The FTP files
6.8 The ldconfig files
6.9 Virtrun

7. The Virtual Server Administator

7.1 The Administrator account: admin
7.2 Why?
7.3 The Administrator's access rights
7.4 Changing the rights of the Administrator
7.5 Disadvantages

8. Post Server Setup

8.1 FTP Files
8.2 ldconfig
8.3 Log directories

9. Common Virtual Services

9.1 Configuration Files
9.2 Specifying Paths to Services
9.3 FTP
9.4 Mail
9.5 Sendmail
9.6 Qmail
9.7 World Wide Web
9.8 Other