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author | Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org> | 2023-08-29 16:30:15 +0000 |
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committer | Laurent Bercot <ska@appnovation.com> | 2023-08-29 16:30:15 +0000 |
commit | 0691bcbd11897694a604f99fa58af6b4286c7195 (patch) | |
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download | tipidee-0691bcbd11897694a604f99fa58af6b4286c7195.tar.xz |
More examples, some fixes, some more doc
Signed-off-by: Laurent Bercot <ska@appnovation.com>
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diff --git a/doc/quickstart.html b/doc/quickstart.html index 4b369eb..974c4b5 100644 --- a/doc/quickstart.html +++ b/doc/quickstart.html @@ -25,16 +25,16 @@ <a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6-networking/">s6-networking</a> installed alongside tipidee. </li> <li> Prepare your document root for every virtual domain you aim to serve. -For instance, if your documents are in <tt>/home/www</tt> and you need to +For instance, if your documents are in <tt>/home/www/docs</tt> and you need to serve the <tt>example.com</tt> and <tt>example.org</tt> domains, create -<tt>/home/www/example.com</tt> and <tt>/home/www/example.org</tt> directories, +<tt>/home/www/docs/example.com</tt> and <tt>/home/www/docs/example.org</tt> directories, they will be the document roots for the <tt>example.com</tt> and <tt>example.org</tt> virtual sites respectively. </li> <li> Symlink these canonical directories to all the <em>host:port</em> combinations you want them to be available on. If you want <tt>example.com</tt> and <tt>example.org</tt> to be both available on ports 80 and 443, then symlink <tt>example.com</tt> to <tt>example.com:80</tt> and <tt>example.com:443</tt> -in the <tt>/home/www</tt> directory, and do the same with <tt>example.org</tt>. </li> +in the <tt>/home/www/docs</tt> directory, and do the same with <tt>example.org</tt>. </li> <li> Compile a default configuration for tipidee: <tt>:> /etc/tipidee.conf && tipidee-config</tt>. <ul> @@ -103,5 +103,37 @@ your service manager scripts. </li> containing service files to run tipidee under various service managers. </p> +<div id="faq"> +<h2> Frequently asked questions </h2> +</div> + +<h3> I want my web server to listen to more than one address. Do I need +to do all that for every address I have? </h3> + +<p> + Not necessarily: you could listen to <tt>0.0.0.0</tt> for IPv4, and +<tt>::</tt> for IPv6. But if you don't want your server to listen to +<em>all</em> the addresses on your machine, then yes, you will have +to run one process per address:port tuple. +</p> + +<p> + It's okay though: every listening process is very small. The skarnet.org +server has two network cards and runs a web server on both of them, on +IPv4 and IPv6, over HTTP and HTTPS, which makes 8 services. Plus one +<a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6/s6-log.html">s6-log</a> logger process +for each of these services. Plus a supervisor for every service and every +logger — for a whooping total of 64 long-running processes just for +its web server functionality; and it's still not even noticeable, the +amount of resources it consumes is negligible. So, don't worry about it. +</p> + +<p> + Note that this allows you to run different instances of +<a href="tipideed.html">tipideed</a> with different configurations, if +you need it. Use the <tt>-f</tt> option to specify a different config +file for <a href="tipideed.html">tipideed</a>. +</p> + </body> </html> |