sub domain rewrite code

routers · 10-22-2010, 07:02 AM

Hi guys, is there a way for me to make it work with apache rewrite code in (httpd.conf apache2 centos5.5)

example1: mkdir /home/dom1.com/user1 <- this will go to http://user1.dom1.com

example2: mkdir /home/dom2.com/user1 <- this will go to http://user1.dom2.com

FYI dns wild card already done

thanks

regards

Routers

bathory · 10-22-2010, 07:45 AM

Hi,

I guess that by wildcard dns you mean *.dom1.com and *.dom2.com.
In that case why do you need the rewrite? You can setup the DocumentRoot for each vhost to be the desired one and add a ServerAlias for each, e.g for dom1.com:
<VirtualHost :80>
ServerName dom1.com
ServerAlias *.dom1.com
DocumentRoot /home/dom1.com/user1
...
</VirtualHost>
If that's not what you want to do, please elaborate.

Regards

routers · 10-22-2010, 08:04 AM

yeah the wildcard way is right the main issue is i have 40 staff
i want to give 30 of them to do thier own web site just to show my boss i can do something

since that of 30 staff need 30 sub domain so i dont want to add VirtualHost for each
what i want is simple i create /home/dom1.com/staff1 so that staff will have http://staff1.dom1.com

also if the staff1 need to use second domain i will create /home/dom2.com/staff1 and this will go to http://staff1.dom2.com

then i will copy all the file given to me my self to thier own folder
this should work w/o restarting apache

hope i can get some good info about this

thanks

bathory · 10-22-2010, 08:19 AM

You should have use something like staff1.domain.com, staff2.domain.com and so on, in which case mod_rewrite can be used.
If you want to have 30 domains (dom1.com, dom2.com ...), then you'll also need 30 vhosts

routers · 10-22-2010, 09:04 AM

i found this scripts code but could not make it work

look promising for me but not worked

http://tips-scripts.com/subdomains

bathory · 10-22-2010, 12:33 PM

Hi,

The rewrite code in the link you've posted works for subdomains. Meaning you have one domain configured as wildcard in apache and you use rewrite to serve different pages depending on the subdomain requested.
I've already told you that this can be done with mod_rewrite.

But, you don't want to use subdomains, rather than different domains (dom1.com, dom2.com etc) with the same hostname (staff1.dom1.com, staff1.dom2.com ...). This involves that apache must be configured to serve these domains (meaning several vhosts).

bathory · 10-22-2010, 01:23 PM

Hi again,

After thinking a bit more I think it's can be done using a little hack with the apache default vhost.
Assuming that staff1.domX.com points to the IP of your apache server, you'll need the following settings:

1. You don't define any vhost, so the request for staff1.domX.com will point to the default apache DocumentRoot
2. The DocumentRoot should be /home in your case

That said you can use this in .htaccess:

Code:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^staff1.(dom[0-9]+).com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/dom
RewriteRule (.*) /%1.com/staff1 [L]