John set a fire in my pants. That fire was the passion to organize the way I store websites on my server.
Basically, we setup a logical volume for each virtual server. Here's the directory layout:
The directories dev and eat8bit are actually mounted as separate logical volumes.
So let's start at the beginning, setting up your partition.
First and foremost, you must mark your partition as Linux LVM. So fire up the console and enter the commands as follows:
root@dangerunit0~# fdisk /dev/hde Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hde: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hde1 1 14593 117218241 83 Linux
We can see that our drive has a partition that is marked as a standard Linux partition, we'll have to change that. The Id for a Linux LVM is 8e, so let's change it now:
Command (m for help): t Selected partition 1 Hex code (type L to list codes): 8e Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hde: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hde1 1 14593 117218241 8e Linux LVM Command (m for help): w
You should do this for each disk/partition you plan to use in your volume group.
Now that we've successfully labeled are partition(s) as Linux LVM we can move forward to step 2, creating physical volumes.
Pretty straight forward. We just execute the below command for each partition we marked above.
root@dangerunit0~# pvcreate /dev/hde1
Now we add the partitions to our volume group. I called my group “WebVG0”
root@dangerunit0~# vgcreate WebVG0 /dev/hde1
That empty volume group is looking mighty fertile. Let us plant the seed:
root@dangerunit0~# lvcreate -L 500M -n eat8bit WebVG0
Then we must make it a filesystem.
root@dangerunit0~# mke2fs -j /dev/WebVG0/eat8bit
and mount it
root@dangerunit0~# mount /dev/WebVG0/eat8bit /www/eat8bit
You're going to want to add this to your fstab also. For further reference, check out LVM HowTo - Common Tasks
And that's it. Your new web directory is ready for use, so let's make the directories and edit our apache config.
Let's make the directories:
root@dangerunit0~# mkdir /www/eat8bit/htdocs /www/eat8bit/includes /www/eat8bit/log
And now we edit our vhosts config file:
root@dangerunit0~# vi /etc/httpd/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
# Virtual Hosts
#
# If you want to maintain multiple domains/hostnames on your
# machine you can setup VirtualHost containers for them. Most configurations
# use only name-based virtual hosts so the server doesn't need to worry about
# IP addresses. This is indicated by the asterisks in the directives below.
#
# Please see the documentation at
# <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/>
# for further details before you try to setup virtual hosts.
#
# You may use the command line option '-S' to verify your virtual host
# configuration.
#
# Use name-based virtual hosting.
#
NameVirtualHost *:80
#
# VirtualHost example:
# Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container.
# The first VirtualHost section is used for all requests that do not
# match a ServerName or ServerAlias in any <VirtualHost> block.
#
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName eat8bit.com
DocumentRoot /www/eat8bit/htdocs
ServerAlias www.eat8bit.com
ServerAdmin abledanger@eat8bit.com
ErrorLog /www/eat8bit/log/error_log
CustomLog /www/eat8bit/log/access_log common
</VirtualHost>
Write the new VirtualHost directive to the file then restart apache:
root@dangerunit0~# apachectl restart
Congratulations!!! You have now completed the setup of your Web Directory on its own LV. For each additional website, just repeat the process from the lvcreate command down.