I did some work on this. I am using mod_rewrite and do a dynamical lookup for a rewrite-map using LDAP. If you wish you may use a RDB instead of LDAP: This dynamic rewrite-map then can be used to map virtual hosts and whatever you want.
The biggest problem with mod_rewrite is, that it does allow only one instance of a mapping program to run. And if this progam has a problem, the whole webserver has a problem. I therefore wrote a patch which allows to link dynamically such a mapping-dso into mod_rewrite. Unfortunately nobody from the Apache-group was ever interrested in this patch. Not even comments. Have a look at http://bugs.apache.org/index.cgi/full/7688 and http://homes.tiscover.com/jrief/apache_1.3.19-rewrite-dso.patch BTW: the patch works up to version 1.3.26. Jacob On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 17:50, Jonas Eriksson wrote: > Hi > > My http.conf file grows every day and its getting big... > It's getting hard to find anyting without seartching in it. > > My question is : > > I like to move all virtualshosts away from httpd.conf in to a mysql server. > My doing that it would be muth easy to maintain my virtualhosts. > > Have someone tried this without loosing preformance? > > >
