virtual host advice

[ozzieonline]

Hi guys,

I only use 1 cPanel account and all of the websites on my VPS will be set as add-on domains.

I used WHM to set all of the Apache (security) settings. All of my (automatically generated) virtual hosts contain a lot of the exact same lines of code. I am wondering if I can adjust the templates and take these lines of code out of the virtual host and place them between <Directory /home/xxx/public_html></Directory>. I ask this because each virtual host contains about 40 lines of code, which I think is quite much. Imagine if I have 500 sites one day... then the httpd.conf file would contain 20.000 lines of code! So therefore I would be glad to strip some of that code and place it between the <Directory> tags. But... will that work, and is it safe to do? (And if so, does it matter if I place the <Directory> tags before or after the virtual hosts?)

This is what each virtual host looks like. The lines in red are exactly the same for each virtual host, and I wonder if I can place these lines between <Directory /home/xxx/public_html></Directory>. Any advice?

<VirtualHost xx.xxx.xxx.xx:80>
    ServerName xxx.xxx.com
    ServerAlias xxx.xxx.xxx.com xxx.xxx.com xxx.com
    DocumentRoot /home/xxx/public_html
 [COLOR="#FF0000"]   ServerAdmin [email][email protected][/email]
    UseCanonicalName Off
    Options -ExecCGI -Includes
    RemoveHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl .plx .ppl .perl[/COLOR]
    CustomLog /usr/local/apache/domlogs/xxx.xxx.com combined
    CustomLog /usr/local/apache/domlogs/xxx.xxx.com-bytes_log "%{%s}t %I .\n%{%s}t %O ."
    ## User xxx # Needed for Cpanel::ApacheConf
 [COLOR="#FF0000"]   UserDir disabled
    <IfModule mod_suphp.c>
        suPHP_UserGroup xxx xxx
    </IfModule>
    <IfModule concurrent_php.c>
        php4_admin_value open_basedir "/home/xxx:/usr/lib/php:/usr/php4/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/usr/local/php4/lib/php:/tmp"
        php5_admin_value open_basedir "/home/xxx:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp"
    </IfModule>
    <IfModule !concurrent_php.c>
        <IfModule mod_php4.c>
            php_admin_value open_basedir "/home/xxx:/usr/lib/php:/usr/php4/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/usr/local/php4/lib/php:/tmp"
        </IfModule>
        <IfModule mod_php5.c>
            php_admin_value open_basedir "/home/xxx:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp"
        </IfModule>
        <IfModule sapi_apache2.c>
            php_admin_value open_basedir "/home/xxx:/usr/lib/php:/usr/php4/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/usr/local/php4/lib/php:/tmp"
        </IfModule>
    </IfModule>
    <IfModule !mod_disable_suexec.c>
        <IfModule !mod_ruid2.c>
            SuexecUserGroup xxx xxx
        </IfModule>
    </IfModule>
    <IfModule mod_ruid2.c>
        RUidGid xxx xxx
    </IfModule>[/COLOR]
    # To customize this VirtualHost use an include file at the following location
    # Include "/usr/local/apache/conf/userdata/std/2/xxx/xxx.xxx.com/*.conf"
</VirtualHost>

So what I would like to do is this:

One time:

<Directory /home/xxx/public_html>
 [COLOR="#FF0000"]   ServerAdmin [email][email protected][/email]
    UseCanonicalName Off
    Options -ExecCGI -Includes
    RemoveHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl .plx .ppl .perl[/COLOR]
 [COLOR="#FF0000"]   UserDir disabled
    <IfModule mod_suphp.c>
        suPHP_UserGroup xxx xxx
    </IfModule>
    <IfModule concurrent_php.c>
        php4_admin_value open_basedir "/home/xxx:/usr/lib/php:/usr/php4/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/usr/local/php4/lib/php:/tmp"
        php5_admin_value open_basedir "/home/xxx:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp"
    </IfModule>
    <IfModule !concurrent_php.c>
        <IfModule mod_php4.c>
            php_admin_value open_basedir "/home/xxx:/usr/lib/php:/usr/php4/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/usr/local/php4/lib/php:/tmp"
        </IfModule>
        <IfModule mod_php5.c>
            php_admin_value open_basedir "/home/xxx:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp"
        </IfModule>
        <IfModule sapi_apache2.c>
            php_admin_value open_basedir "/home/xxx:/usr/lib/php:/usr/php4/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/usr/local/php4/lib/php:/tmp"
        </IfModule>
    </IfModule>
    <IfModule !mod_disable_suexec.c>
        <IfModule !mod_ruid2.c>
            SuexecUserGroup xxx xxx
        </IfModule>
    </IfModule>
    <IfModule mod_ruid2.c>
        RUidGid xxx xxx
    </IfModule>[/COLOR]
 </Directory>

And then every virtual host would be like this:

<VirtualHost xx.xxx.xxx.xx:80>
    ServerName xxx.xxx.com
    ServerAlias xxx.xxx.xxx.com xxx.xxx.com xxx.com
    DocumentRoot /home/xxx/public_html
    CustomLog /usr/local/apache/domlogs/xxx.xxx.com combined
    CustomLog /usr/local/apache/domlogs/xxx.xxx.com-bytes_log "%{%s}t %I .\n%{%s}t %O ."
    ## User xxx # Needed for Cpanel::ApacheConf
    # To customize this VirtualHost use an include file at the following location
    # Include "/usr/local/apache/conf/userdata/std/2/xxx/xxx.xxx.com/*.conf"
</VirtualHost>

Is that something that should work correctly?