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xad001x0w
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 Posted: Mon 18 Sep '06 18:35 Post subject: Sub Directories |
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Hi, I currently have a windows 2003 server, running apache 2.0.58 with php 4.4.2. Currently our directory structure is a follows:
../htdocs/www.domain.com/*website files*
../htdocs/sub.domain.com/*website files*
../htdocs/sub2.domain.com/*website files*
however, I would like it to be more in the order of:
../htdocs/domain.com/*website files*
../htdocs/domain.com/sub/*website files*
../htdocs/domain.com/sub1/*website files*
I understand that this can be done using htaccess files, but I am unsure of how to exactly so would really like someone to just go through it with me. Also on an old hosting account I had (am now on dedicated server) if you had a subfolder in your site you could access it via at www.domain.com/subfolder OR subfolder.domain.com So if that is possible just by creating a new subfolder in the domain folder i would love to be able to do that.
Many thanks! |
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DeliriumServers
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| Posted: Mon 18 Sep '06 22:23 Post subject: |
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I use mod_vd to do this. I combine it with a mod_rewrite rule so that the www and non www version resolve to the same folder. At my request mod_vd has been compiled and it is available on the downloads page.
Be warned that mod_vd is designed for speed and ease, so there aren't a whole lot of options
-delirium |
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xad001x0w
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| Posted: Mon 18 Sep '06 22:58 Post subject: |
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Any chance you could show me an example of this?
Cheers
EDIT:
Not sure if i mentioned this but the system has to be quite dynamic. as we are running 2 or 3 websites from our server (static IP). So basically I would like to be able to just make the folder ../htdocs/domain.com/ and for it to be accessable at www.domain.com (obviously setting up DNS and everything) and then for the sub folders to be accessable at subfolder.domain.com.
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DeliriumServers
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| Posted: Tue 19 Sep '06 0:39 Post subject: |
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well then, you couldn't have asked for a better module!
here is an example, more is possible, but this is how I use it
in my httpd.conf I have:
| Code: | LoadModule vd_module modules/mod_vd.so
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
# Remove www.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1$1 [R=301,L]
<IfModule vd_module>
VdEnable on
VdChopPrefix 0
VdChopSuffix 0
VdPathPrefix F:/www/webroot
</IfModule> |
this way all requests to my web server have the www. stripped off so that mod_vd will process everthing correct (according to my setup)
then it will map it to a folder like this:
http://subdomain.deliriumservers.com
F:/www/webroot/com/deliriumservers/subdomain
http://www.deliriumservers.net
http://deliriumservers.net
F:/www/webroot/net/deliriumservers
so you can access stuff just like you wanted as a folder or a subdomain and it's completely dynamic
for more information on setting up mod_vd please read the instructions at
http://www.snert.com/Software/mod_vd/index.shtml
-delirium |
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xad001x0w
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| Posted: Wed 20 Sep '06 21:12 Post subject: |
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Great, set everything up (had to update to apache 2.2) then whacked your bit of code into httpd.conf and im sailing.
however...
1) i have co.uk TLDs so therefore they split like this: ../htdocs/uk/co/domain/sub/
Any way to make it go like this:
../htdocs/co.uk/domain/sub
2) on the 2 sites on my server www.domain.com just goes to ../htdocs/ not ../htdocs/uk/co/domain/ Any ideas?
BTW, cheers for showing me mod_vd delerium! |
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DeliriumServers
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| Posted: Wed 20 Sep '06 22:07 Post subject: |
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@xad001x0w
1) I don't know of a way to do it like that... I think this would be a limitation of mod_vd since if it treated one domain like that it would confuse the others
2) could you elaborate a bit more? I'm not exactly sure what is happening to you |
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xad001x0w
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| Posted: Thu 21 Sep '06 1:22 Post subject: |
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Right, ok.
i have 2 sites running on my server i can get to all the subdirectories fine via sub.domain.com. However, when trying to go to www.domain.com i just end up at the apache document root. I can get to the correct location (../htdocs/com/domain/) by typing http://domain.com into the address bar (note no www) but adding the www just lands me back at the doc root. This was happening before i did all this mod_vd stuff and could therefore be related to anything (DNS, apache etc.) we have control over our DNS as we are using the DNS server that is on windows server 2003. |
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DeliriumServers
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| Posted: Thu 21 Sep '06 3:45 Post subject: |
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hmm ok, well try looking at these things:
does your dns forward wildcards? *.domain.com
did you make sure to include my rewrite rule and enable mod rewrite?
(the rewrite rule will remove the www if you type it in, in order to create consistancy for mod_vd, it is also better for the search engines to have only www or only not.)
you may have the www.domain.com defined somewhere in your conf file and this may be causing strange behavior
It also appears I left out a line for my rewrite rule....... sorry, that might be the problem
it should look like this:
| Code: | Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
# Remove www.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1$1 [R=301,L] |
-delirium |
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xad001x0w
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| Posted: Thu 21 Sep '06 18:00 Post subject: |
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| I added the extra couple of lines and changed the DNS (added wild card) and now all works as planned - hoorah! I think thats about all for now, thanks Delirium! |
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DeliriumServers
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| Posted: Thu 21 Sep '06 22:16 Post subject: |
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| welcome |
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