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Life & fun · October 1, 2017

Automate vhost generation for Apache and Nginx: vhost-gen

Configurable vHost generator for Apache 2.2, Apache 2.4 and Nginx - devilbox/vhost-gen

Automate vhost generation for Apache and Nginx: vhost-gen launched on October 1, 2017 with 9 votes, #1,069 of 3,169 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

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