On 1/2/06, PythonistL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Joshua, can you please share with some of us some more details, when > you say > > > You simply request a proxy. > > That is what we do for our accounts and commandprompt.com. We have > > a main apache2 instance that proxies to a private instance of apache2 for > > the customer.
'Proxying' with Apache basically means that you tell Apache to take all requests of a certain type, and forward them somewhere else. In this case, I assume each user has a separate instance of Apache which they're allowed to configure and which listens on a port other than 80; then you just proxy requests on port 80 for a user's domain to the port their Apache is listening on, and their Apache processes the request. I do the same thing with my TextDrive account; I'm currently running an instance of the poll app from the tutorial using lighttpd+FastCGI, and I just have Apache proxy requests for that domain to the port lighttpd is listening on. It's a pretty handy trick. -- "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." -- George Carlin
