DNS / Webserver in a project environment

[Jan]

Preston Hagar wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Reineke Fuchs <malepatus at googlemail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hello Ubuntuusers,
>>
>> I'd like to set up a Webserver (Apache) within a DNS-Server.
>>
>> I'd like to create my own namespace (just for this small subnet) and give
>> around 10 people webspace.
>>
>> It's possible, that I haven't understood DNS, but how can send a DNS-Query
>> into a sub-directory?
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> user1.test.com  ==> /var/www/user1/index.html
>> user2.test.com  ==> /var/www/user2/index.html
>> ...
>> user10.test.com  ==> /var/www/user10/index.html
>>
>> My status now:
>>
>> test.com ==> 127.0.0.1 ==> /var/www/index.html ==> It works.
>>
>>
>> How do I link DNS to a directory and not to an IP?
>>
>>
>> Best greetings
>>
>> jaik
>>
>> --
>>     
>
> Virtual Hosts:
>
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/name-based.html
>
> As a basic example in your apache config could put something like this:
>
> NameVirtualHost *:80
>
> <VirtualHost *:80>
> ServerName user1.test.com
> DocumentRoot /var/www/user1
> </VirtualHost>
>
> That page should give you the info you need.  As for DNS, that is a
> completely seperate issue.  If it truly is just ten users and you
> aren't going to change things, you could take a super easy route and
> just add the enteries to the users hosts file.  Of course, if anything
> ever changes, you would have to go around and update everyone's
> machine again.  The other option would be to setup either djbdns,
> PowerDNS, Bind, or another internal DNS server and create your entries
> in it.  If you are comfortable setting up a Postgresql database, I
> would recommend PowerDNS, otherwise I would recommend djbdns.  Just
> google the names and you should be able to find some setup guides
> pretty easily.
>
> Preston
>
>   
Thank you for your replies!

Djbdns looks quite good. Did I get it in the right way, that I just need 
to use the "dnscache" of Bernsteins program? I'm a bit confused :)


jaik