# vhosts

A cli based vhosts server for express/connect apps

### install
```
	npm install -g vhosts
```

### quick start
```
> vhosts start
Daemon started with pid: 99999

> vhosts status
Daemon is running

> vhosts add www.mydomain.com /path/to/app.js
adding www.mydomain.com, /Users/kessler/dev/nodejs/vhosts/test/work/app.js

> vhosts remove www.mydomain.com
removing www.mydomain.com

> vhosts stop
Daemon was stopped
```
### features:
```
  vhosts service can
    ✓ stop (stop command) 
    ✓ start (start command)
    ✓ report status (status command)
    ✓ service different vhosts
    - lists vhosts
    add vhosts on the fly
      ✓ via file creation in cache directory
      ✓ via add command
    remove hosts on the fly
      ✓ via file deletion
      ✓ via remove command
    add wildcard hosts
      ✓ for windows os - a file with _ to represent *
      ✓ for windows os - a file _ to represent *
      ✓ via add command
```
Apart from adding domains->app.js mapping via cli one might also do so via direct file creation at the directory specified in the config. The name of the file should be the domain (substituting _ for *) and the content of the file should be the path to an app.js file

### configuration
standard [rc](https://github.com/dominictarr/rc) config, named ```vhosts```
```
	{		
		"port": 3000,		
		"directory": "/some/path",
		"extensionBlacklist": [".swx", "swp"]
	}
```
* port - the port to use for the main web server
* directory - where the domain to app path mapping resides (also see, [directory-watcher](https://github.com/kessler/directory-cache))
* extensionBlacklist - ignore files in the data directory with these extensions

one might also blend in [sdt](https://github.com/grudzinski/sdt) config options into main configuration

### debug

linux/osx
```
	export DEBUG=vhosts*
```
windows
```
	set DEBUG=vhosts*
```

### Alternatives

[express-fast-vhosts](https://www.npmjs.org/package/express-fast-vhosts)

[vhostess](https://www.npmjs.org/package/vhostess)

### TODO
* implement restart server 
* implement reload vhost