[BlueOnyx:25672] Re: Site with multiple IP

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Apu,

> One small problem with this is that the "siteX.include" file is included 
> in the "siteX" file before the end of the <VirtualHost> declaration. 
> Apache does not let you nest one VirtualHost inside another.
> 
> The solution is to move the
> 
>      Include /etc/httpd/conf/vhosts/siteX.include
> 
> after the </VirtualHost> line though, of course, the siteX file will get 
> overwritten by the GUI and you're back to the beginning again.


Yeah, the bottom line is there is no good way to support Vsites with 
more than one IP on BlueOnyx. That is such a niche problem that I'm also 
not really inclined to implement it out of the box in a proper fashion.

On second thought: There is a way. It's a bit freakish, though. And 
future Updates or changes made via the GUI won't revert it back:

Force the Vsite to use HTTPS by enabling HSTS for it. Enable Nginx as 
SSL-Proxy in the GUI. Then in /etc/nginx/vsites/ throw in a new Nginx 
config file for that Vsite with a different name and change the IP 
address in the copy to the second IP address that your site is supposed 
to have.

The GUI will only ever mess with Nginx config files that match the exact 
group name of existing Vsites (site1, site2, site3 and so on) and will 
ignore anything else. So if you throw in an "extra_ip_site" config file, 
then Nginx will use it, but the GUI will never touch or remove that file.

The only problem you'll have is: If a first time visitor tries to reach 
the Vsite on the extra IP via HTTP (and not HTTPS), then the connection 
won't terminate at the Vsite, as Apache wouldn't know what to do with 
the request.

UNLESS: You set up a dummy Vsite as first Vsite on that extra IP and 
have it redirect to the HTTPS URL of the Vsite in question.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber