Submitted by helpmin on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 21:57

For new domains you create, you can have Virtualmin automatically generate alias domains like this by going into System Settings -> Server Templates -> Default -> Virtual Server Creation -> Automatically create alias domain.

For example: mydomain.com would create mydomain.com.otherdomain.com

That works pretty well. If you now create a subserver as well, then Virtualmin creates two folders in the domains folder: subserver.mydomain.com and subserver.mydomain.com.otherdomain.com

Why would virtualmin create two folders? Could this be a bug?

Status: 
Closed (fixed)

Comments

Submitted by JamieCameron on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 00:19

Actually that is expected .. each domain typically has a directory under domains , so for your sub-domain an equivalent alias domain is also created.

Submitted by Locutus on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 05:16

Alias domains get a home directory folder? I'm not sure if this is really intended. :)

Submitted by helpmin on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 11:45

Yes, I also asked mself why a ServerAlias needs a home directory.

Submitted by JamieCameron on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 12:15

It is potentially needed as you can have an alias domain with email aliases, one of which could be an auto-responder, and the text file for that responder needs to be saved in the alias domain's directory.

Submitted by helpmin on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 12:29

Thanks for the explanation!

Submitted by JamieCameron on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 16:54

I took another look at the code, and in fact the alias domain directory isn't needed most of the time, because by default aliase domains can't have extra email aliases. I will fix this in the next Virtualmin release (3.88).

Submitted by helpmin on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 17:06

Ok, great. So it is safe to delete those folders, right?

Submitted by JamieCameron on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 17:52

No .. don't delete them, as Virtualmin currently expects them to exist.

Submitted by Issues on Sat, 07/30/2011 - 18:21

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.