could someone please clarify vhost.conf.master

[skizza]

I've recently decided that I'm sick of writing config files by hand, and I'm looking for a nice web based panel for me to manage my websites with.

At the moment, ISPconfig appears to be the most suitable for this task. But before i start using it, i would like to know more about it's inner workings.

I'm currently trying to decipher the contents of vhost.conf.master

I've setup a placeholder site "example.com" (with ssl enabled as well) and the config file (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/example.com.vhost) came out like this

<VirtualHost *:80>
  DocumentRoot /var/www/example.com/web

  ServerName example.com
  ServerAlias www.example.com www.example.com
  ServerAdmin webmaster@example.com

  ErrorLog /var/clients/client1/web1/log/error.log

        ErrorDocument 400 /error/invalidSyntax.html
        ErrorDocument 401 /error/authorizationRequired.html
        ErrorDocument 403 /error/forbidden.html
        ErrorDocument 404 /error/fileNotFound.html
        ErrorDocument 405 /error/methodNotAllowed.html
        ErrorDocument 500 /error/internalServerError.html
        ErrorDocument 503 /error/overloaded.html

  <Directory /var/www/example.com/web>
      Options FollowSymLinks Indexes
      AllowOverride Indexes AuthConfig Limit FileInfo
      Order allow,deny
      Allow from all

      # ssi enabled
      AddType text/html .shtml
      AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml
      Options +Includes
  </Directory>

  # cgi enabled
  ScriptAlias  /cgi-bin/ /var/clients/client1/web1/cgi-bin/
  AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
  AddHandler cgi-script .pl
  # mod_php enabled
  AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3 .php4 .php5

  php_admin_value sendmail_path "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i -fwebmaster@example.com"
  php_admin_value upload_tmp_dir /var/clients/client1/web1/tmp
  php_admin_value session.save_path /var/clients/client1/web1/tmp
  #php_admin_value open_basedir /var/clients/client1/web1:/usr/share/php5


</VirtualHost>



<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
###########################################################
# SSL Vhost
###########################################################

<VirtualHost *:443>
  DocumentRoot /var/clients/client1/web1/web
  ServerName example.com
  ServerAlias www.example.com www.example.com
  ServerAdmin webmaster@example.com

  ErrorLog /var/clients/client1/web1/log/error.log

        SSLEngine on
        SSLCertificateFile /var/clients/client1/web1/ssl/example.com.crt
        SSLCertificateKeyFile /var/clients/client1/web1/ssl/example.com.key

  # cgi enabled
  ScriptAlias  /cgi-bin/ /var/clients/client1/web1/cgi-bin/
  AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
  AddHandler cgi-script .pl
  # ssi enabled
  AddType text/html .shtml
  AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml
  # mod_php enabled
  AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3 .php4 .php5

  php_admin_value sendmail_path "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i -fwebmaster@example.com"
  php_admin_value upload_tmp_dir /var/clients/client1/web1/tmp
  php_admin_value session.save_path /var/clients/client1/web1/tmp
  #php_admin_value open_basedir /var/clients/client1/web1:/usr/share/php5


</VirtualHost>
</IfModule>

Could someone perhaps explain a bit more about all the possible config file outputs, because all the conditional <tmpl_if>....</tmpl_if> statements are very confusing to me.

[falko]

Originally Posted by skizza

I've setup a placeholder site "example.com" (with ssl enabled as well) and the config file (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/example.com.vhost) came out like this

ISPConfig doesn't write to the /etc/apache2/sites-enabled directory.
I don't seem to understand your question.

[skizza]

Originally Posted by falko

ISPConfig doesn't write to the /etc/apache2/sites-enabled directory.

This is somewhat true. /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ contains symlinks to files in /etc/apache2/sites-available which are written there by the code in "apache2_plugin.inc.php"

[falko]

Are you talking about ISPConfig 2 or 3?

[skizza]

I'm referring to ISPConfig 3.0.0.7 on Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

[till]

The conditional if's correspond directly to the options that are available in the ispconfig web interface for the website. For example if there is a conditional if for ssi, it corresponds to the checkbox ssi in the website settings. For the details what the different apache directives do you might want to take a look at the apache documentation:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/

[skizza]

Originally Posted by till

The conditional if's correspond directly to the options that are available in the ispconfig web interface for the website. For example if there is a conditional if for ssi, it corresponds to the checkbox ssi in the website settings. For the details what the different apache directives do you might want to take a look at the apache documentation:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/

I know what you mean, but that's not what I'm asking.

I was referring to "<tmpl_if name='*'>", NOT "<IfModule mod_*.c>"

Since no one has answered or for that matter understood my question, let me ask a more simple one.

In how are variables such as "system_group" in<tmpl_var name='system_group'> defined, and how could I write a config file like the output of ispconfig by hand.

[till]

I was referring to "<tmpl_if name='*'>", NOT "<IfModule mod_*.c>"

And I was talking about the <tmpl_if name='*'>, so I answered your questions already. Take a look at the website settings and you will see that the they correspond to the conditional if staements.

In how are variables such as "system_group" in<tmpl_var name='system_group'> defined, and how could I write a config file like the output of ispconfig by hand.

The variables are defined in the apache plugin in /usr/local/ispconfig/server/plugins-available/