[CLUG] Apache - Operation with vhost alias

[AJ McKee]

Howdy All,

I have a wee question in relation to mod_vhost_alias in apache.

Currently I normally lay out my webservers filesystem as follows

All websites are kept here on LVM
/www/sites

So a site that is called "adomianname.com" would have the following file  
and dir structure

/www/sites/a/adomainname.com -- FTP home
/www/sites/a/adomainname.com/html -- DocumentRoot
/www/sites/a/admomainname.com/cgi-bin -- Script Alias

A site that had a b as the start of its domain name would look like
/www/sites/b/digdomains.com/html

Additionall log files are kept in more or less the same way.
/www/logs/a/adomainname.com/access.log
/www/logs/b/bigdomains.com/access.log

/www/sites us broken down in alphabeth and number 0-9 (/www/sites/a  
/www/sites/b /www/sites/2 etc)
So you follow how I am doing things.

I would like to use mod_vhost_alias to do the same stuff, however there  
are a number of things I have to consider.

Sites must respond to www.domain.com and domain.com (A records point at  
the web server)

Reading the docs on mod_vhost_alias its not obvious to me; Whould it be  
something like;

  VirtualDocumentRoot /usr/local/apache/vhosts/%1/%0/html

It also raises the question of how am I gonna handle my log files,  
currently I keep a separate log for each site. But I gateher if I use  
vhost_alias I may not be able to do that.

Any comments or advice welcomed.

Cheers
AJ