[Cialug] Best way to host webservers at home

[Eric Junker]

I don't know if this will solve your problem, but Apache "Dynamically 
configured mass virtual hosting" may be useful to you

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/mass.html

Eric

On 12/19/2011 10:05 AM, Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> Hello, I'd like to set up an environment at home where I can host
> multiple VMs (or maybe even an open stack setup) in order to expose web
> services to the public.
>
> I have one server that runs constantly, it could act as a proxy or
> forwarder. I have two more servers that will run virtual machines
> (virtualbox or openstack probably).
>
> The goal is to make staging and development easier. Therefore there are
> two varieties of sites I will run:
>
>   * "Production" type sites where a virtual machine runs a web server on
> port 80
>   * "Development" type sites where a Django or Rails site is running on
> port 8080 or 8000
>
> My intention is to point a wild-card domain to my home router
> (*.v5.iowatechies.com <http://v5.iowatechies.com>) and what I'd love is
> to be able to map *.x.v5.iowatechies.com <http://x.v5.iowatechies.com>.
> So for example, EC2 uses something like this for x: ec2-11-22-33-44
> (wich is a pointer to 11.22.33.44 IP address). I'd be happy with this
> but I'd love to be able to have multiple domains at each host, hence the
> wildcard *.x.v5.iowatechies.com <http://x.v5.iowatechies.com>.
>
> What would you recommend? And, for the record, imho, simpler is better
> than better.