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csdude55
Joined: 22 Jan 2023
Posts: 23
Location: USA, Wilkesboro
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 Posted: Tue 09 Jul '24 18:49 Post subject: Global ads.txt for all sites on server |
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I have over 100 sites on my VPS. Most of them use the same info for ads.txt, but that data changes about once a month and it's a HUGE pain to manually update all of the sites!
So I'd like to rewrite example.com/ads.txt to a global ads.txt file. Via Apache .CONF files, of course, so that I could do it once and it would apply to all future sites unless I manually exclude them.
I thought that this would work, allowing me to upload to /home/ads.txt (not web accessible), set the permission to 0777, and all of the sites would use it:
| Code: | RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule /ads\.txt /home/ads.txt |
But alas, no, it's not working. When I go to foo.com/ads.txt, it shows the original file instead of the data from /home/ads.txt.
Variations that I tried, but none of them did anything:
| Code: | # with and without opening /
RewriteRule /ads\.txt /home/ads.txt
RewriteRule ads\.txt /home/ads.txt
# without escaped .
RewriteRule /ads.txt /home/ads.txt
RewriteRule ads.txt /home/ads.txt
# Thinking maybe I can't rewrite pre-directory, so
# upload it to example.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !example\.com [NC]
RewriteRule /ads.txt https://www.example.com/ads.txt [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !example\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ads.txt https://www.example.com/ads.txt [R=301,L] |
Any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong?
I know that I could symlink all of them to the one file, but then I'd have to remember to do it each time I add a new site! So I'd consider that a last resort if I can't get the rewrite to work. |
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tangent
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Joined: 16 Aug 2020
Posts: 348
Location: UK
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| Posted: Tue 09 Jul '24 20:33 Post subject: |
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Unless I'm missing something, can't you simply use an alias directive in your configuration to reference your global file, e.g.
| Code: | Alias "/ads.txt" "/home/ads/ads.txt"
<Directory "/home/ads">
Require all granted
</Directory> |
Note, assuming the target directory is outside the DocumentRoot, you'll need to explicitly grant access to the target directory.
Since this file changes, you might want to consider adding a cache-control/max-age response header to this file request. |
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csdude55
Joined: 22 Jan 2023
Posts: 23
Location: USA, Wilkesboro
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| Posted: Wed 10 Jul '24 7:39 Post subject: |
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Awesome, using "Alias" worked out great  Honestly, I code in the configuration so rarely that I forgot that Alias existed! LOL |
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