Re: Add virtual domains to configuration files

[jproy@world.std.com (John P Roy)]

First thing to note is that changes will only be lost if
you run that little windows admin. GUI (EnhPi3.exe) and save
changes using 'Apply' or 'OK' - if you are not planning on doing
this then there will be no problem.

Second, there are two types of sections in this file; areas that
will be lost, and those that will be retained. An examination of the
file should tell you where virtual hosts lie, but offhand I
believe these changes will be retained even if you run the admin GUI
again. In any case a little experimentation after backing up your
config.pi3 should reveil this. 

Now to the approach of automatically generating this file; this
has come up a few times. I would do this:

Write a perl script to generate a new file myhosts.pi3 from whichever
dataformat you have. Then add a line in config.pi3 which says 
something like
	include 'conf/myhosts.pi3'
Then rerun your perl script and restart the server when you add/delete
new v. hosts. Your only issue is to get the syntax right in 
myhosts.pi3, luckily this has come up a few times in the list. Which
reminds me that I need to rerun mhonarc to publish the last few 
months discussions....

Hope this helps,
John
 
>
> Hi,
>
> I've quite a number of domains to add to the webserver.  It'll be quite
> troublesome to do it programmatically.
>
> I've looked at the config.pi3 file, and it mentioned
> "#+++---AD Generated Section, modifications will be lost---+++"
>
> ok, so is it possible to add my 100 domains through a text file?  it'll be
> quite tedious to have to add it through the GUI.
>
> Thanks for the advice.
>
> Regards,
> John