Rewrites for the PHP,Standalone OpenID Server

[Niels Berkers]

Hey Antonio,

> Hi Niels,
> 
> First of all, thanks a lot for your response and your attention.I'd like 
> to ask you some things I don't still understand completely.
> 
> With the solution that you propose, do not I need .htacces? are 
> wild-cards, .htaccess and virtual hosts different solutions for the same 
> problem?

nope a virtualhost is something you configure in apache. it lets the 
http server listen to a domain name. a .htaccess is a file you place in 
your documentroot which can hold some apache configuration, but is much 
more limited in it's options than a virtualhost.

see http://apache.org

> 
> If virtual hosts are my solution, should I put both entries you post in 
> your response or just first of them?

both, the first is the catch all for all names under .openid.quotar.com
The second is where the openid server is installed. Note: you have to 
limit the accountnames in you server to \w+ ( a-z , 0-9, _ ) So the 
url's will turn out valid.

> 
> In line:
> 
> DocumentRoot /var/www/quotar.com/openid/names
> 
> what should I put? the path to my server. I mean, if I have the server's 
> index file at "http://my_server/dir1/index.php", should I rewrite that 
> line as:
> 
> DocumentRoot /dir1
> 

check phpinfo(); or $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] in you current config.


> And the last question: In line:
> 
> <VirtualHost 83.160.179.6:80>
> 
> I should change it into: <VirtualHost <my_server_ip>:80>. The port 
> number must be 80 or it can be something else?
> 
the http protocol can run on any port. But the standard is 80. So if you 
don't want ppl typing a portnr. (http://openid.site.com:7848/ ) in the 
URL, you should use 80


> Thanks a lot for your attention and your support, and please, forgive my 
> english.
> 
np :)

best regards,


Niels Berkers