Hi there.

Have been having some problems with my server lately and thought that now was a good time to solve the problems.

I use the folder /var/www/ as my base web folder, in there I have a folder named default (/var/www/default/) which is the main page that visitors see.
Most people visit the site through the IP (for now: 123.123.123.123) and is then via a .php file sent to 123.123.123.123/default/ .
This works fine except that I also have folders called mine (/var/www/mine/), else (/var/www/else/) and global (/var/www/global/) and I don't want people to be able to visit them through the ip like this 123.123.123.123/global/ .

I only want visitors to be able to see these folders page if coming from a certain URL (global.example.com) and not the IP.
I have it so that the visit through the URL is handled by a VirtualHost rule and sent to the right place, what i can't seem to fix is the problem with the IP still sending the visitor to the subfolder.

If anyone understands what I mean and can help me please do so


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I also have a problem with the user for apache2. Standard is set to www-data and group www-data but this causes problems when uploading files via a web form, because then when I ssh in as my user I have no rights to the files.
Can I somehow set a different user for certain VirtualHosts or maybe just change the main apache2 user to my own account, or will this cause any problems along the way?

Create an empty directory in /var/www, let's call it empty, and set your DocumentRoot in your httpd.conf file to /var/www/empty.

Then, all hits to your site for which you do not have a VirtualHost will be directed to the empty directory /var/www/empty.

Setup your VirtualHosts for each of your other directories as you need.

About your permissions question: add your user id as a member of the www-data group and make the web files group writable. Thus, you as a user will be able to write files with www-data group ownership.

If you don't want to change DocumentRoot, use virtual hosts in conjunction with mod_rewrite.

For example, redirect:

123.123.123.123/global
123.123.123.123/else
123.123.123.123/mine

To

123.123.123.123/default

Hope this helps.

Hmmmm.. mod_rewrite is well beyond the scope of most beginners.

Thanks for the help, this worked just as I wanted. Also the permission solution solved that problem.