[SOLVED] Apache / wildcard DNS / vhost question

Red Squirrel · 07-03-2014, 01:37 PM

I am reorganizing the way I do development and rather than create one virtualhost per project I want to use a wildcard DNS and virtualhost.

I have a directory called dev and test. I want to make it so if I type

*.d.server.loc (.d. for dev, .t. for test)

It goes to dev/* folder.

So say I have a folder called project1 in dev I want to type project1.d.server.loc and it will go to that folder.

I already have the wildcard DNS setup. I'm guessing in apache this may be doable with mod rewrite. How would it be done, if possible?

bathory · 07-04-2014, 03:11 AM

Yes, you can use mod_rewrite, like this:

Code:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.+).d.server.loc$
RewriteRule (.*) http://d.server.loc/dev/%1

Regards

Red Squirrel · 07-04-2014, 06:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bathory

Yes, you can use mod_rewrite, like this:

Code:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.+).d.server.loc$
RewriteRule (.*) http://d.server.loc/dev/%1

Regards

Thanks, could you show me a full example including the virtualhost block, just not sure exactly where/how to use that. I'm guessing there are variables I need to put in there as well.

bathory · 07-04-2014, 08:31 AM

Quote:

Thanks, could you show me a full example including the virtualhost block, just not sure exactly where/how to use that. I'm guessing there are variables I need to put in there as well.

There is nothing fancy:

Code:

<VirtualHost *:80>
 DocumentRoot /var/www/html
 ServerName d.server.loc
 ServerAlias *.d.server.loc

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.+).d.server.loc$
RewriteRule (.*) http://d.server.loc/dev/%1

...
</VirtualHost>

Just change the docroot accordingly.

Red Squirrel · 07-04-2014, 12:09 PM

Hmmm so it's basically just a redirect? I got it working but I'll have to test further. If a site refers to / (ex: to refer to the css file) I'm not sure if that will work.