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As part of refining my Apache web server which runs multiple sites I’ve create a user account, database account and home folder per site so for example the site example.com has a user account example, a database account example and a web folder located at: /home/example/public_html The corresponding Apache VirtualHost for this site is: <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin admin@example.com ServerName www.example.com ServerAlias example.com ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.example.com.log LogLevel warn CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.example.com.log combined DocumentRoot /home/example/public_html <IfModule mod_suexec....

I’m a dabbler, I like to dabble. While most people are happily using Google Talk, Facebook chat, Skype and the like I’m busy playing around with my own chat server, writing plugins for it and seeing if I can get things like Single Sign On (SSO), DNS Service Records and Federation working. It’s time consuming, frustrating at times but ultimately rewarding. One particularly frustrating problem I recently tackled was single sign on with Openfire (a Jabber/XMPP messaging server)....