hi, i'm trying to get the following to work in my .htaccess ... this regex thing is making my brain bleed 8-)

RewriteRule (.*) /%(HTTP_HOST)/$1

i have 3 domains all aliased to the same virtual server. i would like the rewriterule to direct apache to the proper directory and use the files in it without having to write a new rule for each domain... the regex rule should work to any depth of subdirs on any kind of file... example mappings would be like...

domain1.com
domain2.com/testdir1
domain3.com/testdir2/file.html

would go lookup files in

/var/www/html/domain1.com/
/var/www/html/domain2.com/testdir1
/var/www/html/domain3.com/testdir2/file.html

any assistance would be very much appreciated

happy new year!
bill bush

This looks more like a job for virtual hosts more than mod_rewrite.

http://www.google.com/search?q=apach...utf-8&oe=utf-8

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/vhosts/name-based.html

u right about that ugob... that's how i do it on my home server in the httpd.conf file... unfortunately i'm trying to do this under ensim on a shared server. i have no access to httpd.conf and if i create a virtual server for each domain under ensim it's a separate user account and i cannot control what the directories are and a bunch of other crap you don't think about till you actually try to do it muahahaha... the best i could do was get the sysadmin to give me mod_rewrite... so i'll just take the performance hit .htaccess mod_rewrite incurrs until a better solution comes along...