Apache mass virtual host dynamically

Question

I have an Apache server that takes in all sort of domain that point to it, for example:

• test.com
• abc.com
• 123.com

Then, it will resolve these domain name to a sub folder, for example

• test.com -> /var/user/test
• abc.com -> /var/user/abc
• 123.com -> /var/user/123

I can do it using virtual host but i will need to manually add the entries and restart server each time there are changes.

Is there any way to do the setting dynamically?

Answer 1

The section "Dynamic Virtual Hosts with mod_vhost_alias" in the Dynamically Configured Mass Virtual Hosting page of the Apache docs helped me out with this. The only part I had to add to my httpd.conf file was the following:

VirtualDocumentRoot /www/hosts/%0/docs
VirtualScriptAlias  /www/hosts/%0/cgi-bin

The %0 is the variable that takes whatever domain is being accessed and points it to the folder in /www/hosts/ with the same name. /docs is the folder where you put your public HTML files for each site, a different one for each. You can edit those to what you want.

Hope that helps!