Advanced Apache virtual hosts

70mas · 01-28-2007, 01:04 PM

Hi

I would like to set up some difficult apache virtual hosts, but i have not enough skills for doing that:

1. The www. should be ignored in all cases.
2. 2nd level domains (i.e. domain.com) should be looked for in /www/domain.com/
3. 3rd level domains (i.e. example.domain.com) should be looked in /www/domain.com/.sub/example(of course according to 1. it would not apply to www.domain.com)
4. If the directories don't exist, look for other <VirtualHosts>-s
5. If no virtual hosts match the host, go to the default documentroot

As you can see, the highest priority should have the <VirtualHost> with the virtualdocumentroot, and then the other <VirtualHost>-s and then the default DocumentRoot

Could you help me please?

Thanks in advance.

zaichik · 01-29-2007, 06:34 AM

I think you are looking for something like this:

Code:

<VirtualHost 1.2.3.4>
ServerName domain.com
ServerAlias www.domain.com
DocumentRoot /www/domain.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 1.2.3.4>
ServerName example.domain.com
ServerAlias www.example.domain.com
DocumentRoot /www/domain.com/.sub/example
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 1.2.3.4>
ServerAlias *.domain.com
DocumentRoot /www/domain.com/.sub/default
</VirtualHost>

The only thing I was unclear about was exactly what "the www. should be ignored" meant. I assumed you meant that whether or not it was typed, the user goes to the same place, i.e., www.domain.com = domain.com, www.example.domain.com = example.domain.com. If that is not the case, and you want www.example.domain.com to equal non-existent-subdomain.domain.com and be caught by the default, then leave the ServerAlias directive out of all the vhost containers (except for the default one, of course).

Hope that helps.

70mas · 01-29-2007, 10:44 AM

Thanks zaichik for your answer...

What I really had in mind is something like this...

Code:

NameVirtualHost *:80

ServerName srna.sk
ServerSignature On
ErrorLog /www/logs/error.log
LogLevel warn
CustomLog /www/logs/access.log combined

<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerName srna.sk
	ServerAlias www.srna.sk
	ServerAdmin tomas@homelin.srna.sk
	DocumentRoot /www/htdocs/
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerAlias *.*.srna.sk
	ServerAdmin tomas@homelin.srna.sk
	VirtualDocumentRoot /www/htdocs/%-3.0.%-2.0.%-1.0/.sub/%-4.0
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerAlias *.srna.sk
	ServerAdmin tomas@homelin.srna.sk
	VirtualDocumentRoot /www/htdocs/%-3.0.%-2.0.%-1.0
</VirtualHost>

And to this, I would like to add something to omit www. at the beginning... For example now the address www.sth.srna.sk is now translated as /www/htdocs/sth.srna.sk/.sub/www, but i want it to be translated as /www/htdocs/sth.srna.sk On the other hand, addresses like web.sth.srna.sk should be translated as /www/htdocs/sth.srna.sk/.sub/web

Nothing complicated but to omit www. from the address of request.

Thanks.