This applies directly to Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex
First, let's talk about the configuration files in /etc/apache2.
/etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Ubuntu defaults. Don't play with this too much directly. Make minor modifications here, but store most of your customisations in httpd.conf.
/etc/apache2/httpd.conf: An empty file. This is where you store all of your customisations. Here you should put things that are not already listed in apache2.conf.
/etc/apache2/sites-available/ Each VirtualHost *:* should have it's own ###-name.domain.tld configuration here. When you run a2dissite the configuration file stays here.
/etc/apache2/mods-available/ Each module should have it's mod-name config file here. When you run a2dismod the configuration file stays here.
/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ Symlinks to sites that you've enabled using a2ensite ###-name.domain.tld
/etc/apache2/mods-enabled/ Symlinks to modules that you've enabled using a2enmod mod-name
Now I'm going to assume that you've got your FQDN set up through dyndns.org already, you have apache installed, and you're ready to rock and roll.
As soon as you start your server you always get this message: "Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName"
There are a few things that you need to do to fix this: httpd.conf: Add a line specifying an arbitrary primary domain name
ServerName mydomain.dyndns.orgsites-available: Each site should have a <VirtualHost *:*> tag and inside of that you should have a ServerName which describes the virtual host.
ServerName mydomain.dyndns.orgDone! No more of that message.
Now you probably want to get SSL up and running. I won't reinvent the wheel: These are great references: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~brams006/selfsign.html http://www.tc.umn.edu/~brams006/selfsign_ubuntu.html
You've done that and you get another error "Error code: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long apache"
Try this: http://mydomain.dyndns.org:443
If that works then it means that in one of your virtual hosts you neglected to add the SSLEngine ON directive
<VirtualHost *:443>
#.....
SSLEngine On
SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/server.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/server.key
</VirtualHost>Nows lets say that you want a particular part of your site to automagically redirect to https: They enter http://secure.mydomain.dyndns.org/paynow/ and you want it to detect their error:```
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName secure.mydomain.dyndns.org Redirect seeother / https://secure.mydomain.dyndns.org/ </VirtualHost>
You may not like that if **doesnt-exist.mydomain.dyndns.org always points back to the real index** - or worse to the index of your primary site. To fix this you can modify the VirtualHost directive and use some php-fu (which I won't go into here) to do what you want. Make sure that each virtual host has it's own special root directory and that your default site will use /var/www/index.php to read the header of where they were going and say "did you mean to go to www.mydomain.dyndns.org?"
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName mydomain.dyndns.org DocumentRoot /var/www/m/mydomain </VirtualHost>
**How about getting SVN up?**
First of all, I believe that you have to do your initial import from the local machine. Or at least I didn't get it working with svn+ssh and I haven't tried an initial import from webdav.
Here's a nice howto
[http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=51753](http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=51753)
I also must recommend the free book on the svnbook. I printed out a few chapters and it was invaluable to my learning!
[http://svnbook.red-bean.com/](http://svnbook.red-bean.com/)
But let's say instead of having /svn show up as svn on ALL of your domains (which is the default) you want only one virtual host
[https://svn.mydomain.dyndns.tld](https://svn.mydomain.dyndns.tld)
turn svn into a site rather than a global module
cd /etc/apache2 rm ./mods-enabled/dav_svn.conf mv ./mods-available/dav_svn.conf ./sites-available/###-svn.mydomain.dyndns.org
(This may need to be repeated when mod_dav_svn is upgraded)
and create a virtual host for it:
vim ./sites-available/###-svn.mydomain.dyndns.org<VirtualHost *:443> ServerName svn.mydomain.dyndns.org
<Location /> #....... </VirtualHost>
And lastly you'd like to eliminate the hundred million useless errors in your log file about favicon.ico and robots.txt:
**[Mon Dec 22 18:37:16 2008] [error] [client 24.87.22.5] File does not exist: /var/www/favicon.ico**
cd /var/www/; wget http://help.ubuntu.com/favicon.ico
OR
create a 16x16 xpm in gimp and use xpm2wico to convert it
OR
use this directive in httpd.confRedirect 404 /favicon.ico
ORRewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule .*favicon\.ico$ /var/www/favicon.ico [L] RewriteRule .*robots\.txt$ /var/www/robots.txt [L]
I hope this helps someone. Questions, comments welcome.