Quixotic Evil

Didn't know the first thing about Linux shell scripting when I sat down this evening; now at midnight I have a script that prompts for a new domain name to host and a user account to assign it to, then creates all the necessary directories and links, adds the right lines to the webserver configuration and tests it, then suggests that you restart Apache (I did try to have it parse the config test output and do the restart on its own, but if you restart Apache while the configuration files are bad it just kills it, so I didn't trust it that much).

Yes, I know there are things out there that will do it much better, but I've got to start somewhere. A very productive and educational evening all told.
Next week I'll do the same for mailboxes and whatever else it is I use this computer for.

I'm currently building and testing a mo'blogging solution for the site. Mainly it's just an excuse to play with technology - a pastime which I do so love - and it will probably disappear after a while, once I'm bored of failing to find interesting things to take photos of. But while I'm working on it, expect disruption, and things that don't quite work as they probably should ;-)

Mainly I'm reminded that my phone is getting old. Perhaps the next one will have a better camera.

I've just managed to persuade my web server to respond properly to HTTPS requests. I realise you lot probably don't care, but I'm pretty pleased.

Now to work out how to refuse connections to virtual hosts that don't exist, rather than just picking the first host it can find and serving that...