48 hours with Lion Server

I upgraded Snow Leopard 10.6.7 to Lion Server just under 48 hours ago..... I have now transferred all my data to the backup Snow Leopard server and and working out how to recover the production server to the previous opearting system. Some observations:
- VirtualHosts - whilst a fix has been found to make these work the system is extremely unstable. I kept having endless permission problems and the virtual websites could not be accessed. In the end all the websites went down including the primary domain - and the server webpage could only be accessed via the server IP address on the LAN
- Webmail - great new interface. But again endless virtual host routing problems meant it couldn't be accessed. You can get to the webmail log in page but then an error kept coming that it couldnt connect to IMAP server - another permissioning problem I guess
- Mail - although not much seems to have changed in the mail back end the SMTP and POP server became very unreliable. incoming mail was being occasionally lost for no reason. No log reference....nothing. No delivery errors. Continual reboots and stopping and starting the mail service would restore operation for a while
- Wordpress - MySQL continued to work and after some tweaking the system worked. However permalinks all failed and I could not find a way to edit the apache configuration files to allow server overwites. The required htaccess files seem to be missing?
- Server app - Hopeless. continually hangs and I suspect is the root of many of the problems I have had. It seems to be very unstable at writing the various apache, Dovecot etc configuration files.
So although the server does fairly few tasks (virtual hosting, Wordpress, mail for virtual hosts, webmail, POP and SMTP services) - I could get NONE of them to operate in a stable fashion. Compared to 10.6,7 which has worked perfectly - after some fiddling when I first set up Snow Leopard server on my MacMini - 12m+ ago.
I didn't get round to even trying to get the additional iPad and iPhone integration features - the key attraction of Lion. The basics just dont seem to work!

Not too hard to fix the Permalinks problem.
1. Go to /etc/apache2/sites/
2. Open the .conf for the specific site. If you're just running off the default, it will be 0000_any_80_.conf or something like that.
3. Switch AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All
4. Save
5. Fire up Terminal. type "sudo apachectl restart"
That did the trick for me!
I sure do hope they get the server program to be a little more extensible. No MySQL? Spending a lot of time digging around apache files, which I'm used to, but I hoped the Server app would help avoid the hassle!

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Well, it doesn't necessarily have to be each and every night, but it was for the sole purpose of preventing sluggishness. We had it set up before, as Snow Leopard Server and it would restart every night. It would occasionally be slow and need rebooting, however a manual reboot was not possible by most people in the store as they did not have credentials to screen share and restart it - which would result in holding down the power button to shut it down.
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Olaf.

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"Can you provide the basics for setup?"
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Thank you very much for your time and input. My birthday was fantastic! Thanks for asking.
I found out about SNI while researching an error I was getting in the log. I really never found any definitive "this is what you need to do", so I was going to get back to it later.
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Here is the contents of what appears to be the first file read, that is for SSL enabled sites:
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This is "0000_any_443.conf:"
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## Default Virtual Host Configuration
NameVIrtualHost *:443
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot "/path/to/the/docs"
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php /wiki/ default.html
CustomLog "//log" cmbndvhst
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<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
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SSLCipherSuite "SOMEGARBAGEIDONTKNOWIFISHOULDSHAREORWHAT"
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SSLCertificateFile "/sslcerts/certs/*.DOMAIN.COM.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.cert.pem"
SSLCertificateKeyFile "/sslcerts/certs/*.DOMAIN.COM.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.key.pem"
SSLCertificateChainFile "/path/*.DOMAIN.COM.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.chain.pem"
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<Directory "/Path/To/The/Docs/XXXX/SDFSDD">
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AllowOverride None
<IfModule mod_dav.c>
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</IfModule>
</Directory>
Include /httpd_passwordreset_required.conf
</VirtualHost>
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So.. my questions are:
Where in the .confs do I add what I need from your above items? Would it go each of the site docs that I need? I am really not sure what apple is doing here.
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Hi John, perhaps I did not express myself clearly.
My desktop iMac is set up with multiple desktops (desktop 1 for system stuff, desktop 2 for mail, messages, skype etc, desktop 3 for Safari and desktop 4 for text proessing, VM-Ware and other work).
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