Topic: Question about dynamic vhosts, virtualdocumentroot

[neophitus]

Hi guys!

First of all, this is a great place! A lot of infos about apache configuration!

Well, lets talk about my issue:
I've been running apache2 on Mac OS X (10.6.. My Apache version is:
Server version: Apache/2.2.21 (Unix)
Server built: Dec 5 2011 20:56:38

I have a v-host setup, where i put my files like this:

/Work/www/<domai_name>/public, like example: /Work/www/www.google.com/public.
So, i set a wildcard subdomain on my main domain (*.dev.maindomain.com), and i can work like this:

/Work/www/test.dev.maindomain.com/public
/Work/www/wordpress.dev.maindomain.com/public
and etc...

so when i open http://test.dev.maindomain.com/ at my browser, its give me the website at /Work/www/test.dev.maindomain.com/public. This setup is working great.

But now, im starting to dev some rails applications, and i want it on a new folder on filesystem, like:

/Work/rails/test.rails.maindomain.com/public and so, when i open the address http://test.rails.maindomain.com i got to the webapp located at /Work/rails/test.rails.maindomain.com/public.

My DNS settings are working great, and my http-vhost.conf files is:

[glsmith]

How is Apache supposed to know which one to go to, projects/www vs. project/rails? If there was an

<If "%{HTTP_HOST} =~ /rails/">
rails vhost container here
<Else>
www vhost container here
</If>

you could separate them that way, but there isn't this option in 2.2.x, only 2.4

[neophitus]

glsmith, with mod_vhost i can give apache a VirtualDocumentRoot, to each VirtualHost, as i show on my vhost.conf.
I figured out how to do that: all i need was the ServerAlias directive.

[admin]

I missed Servername directive in your config.

Always learning, thanks, I learned now how to use virtualdocumentroot .

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_vhost_alias.html#virtualdocumentroot

Steffen

[neophitus]

ServerName directive does not work on this case. Here we need to use ServerAlias instead. I'm glad to show all my solution

[Millennium]

Well the first virtualhost is always catch all.

The second needs some ServerName and/or ServerAlias to be used instead of the catch all.

I always use

ServerName domain.com (to match http://domain.com)
ServerAlias *.domain.com (to match all subdomains of domain.com)