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Ben
Ben

Reputation: 1461

Apache Multiple VirtualDocumentRoot

Using Apache2 on a Linux system is there a way to have multiple VirtualDocumentRoot using mod_vhost_alias?

This is naming convention I am currently using and would like to continue to use:

host                    directory
127.0.0.1 domain        domain.com
127.0.0.1 sub.domain    domain.com_sub

Then in my vhosts section of the httpd.conf I have:

NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
    VirtualDocumentRoot /var/www/%0.0.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
    VirtualDocumentRoot /var/www/%2.0.com_%1
</VirtualHost>

The problem with this is when I visit sub.domain the Apache error log shows that it is looking for /var/www/sub.domain.com rather than /var/www/domain.com_test which leads me to believe it only reads the first rule and then fails, but what I would like it to do is use any document root that satisfies either of the two VirtualDocumentRoot rules.

Upvotes: 15

Views: 24211

Answers (5)

Armel Larcier
Armel Larcier

Reputation: 16027

I finally found a configuration that allows flexible subdomain creation.

See apache docs on mod_vhost_alias

If your root dev domain has 3 parts like dev.example.com you can use %-4+ as a placeholder for everything before the root domain. If it has 4 parts, use %-5+.

<VirtualHost *:80>
    VirtualDocumentRoot "/var/www/%-4+/webroot"
    ServerName www.dev.example.com
    ServerAlias *.dev.example.com
    php_admin_value auto_prepend_file /var/www/setdocroot.php
</VirtualHost>

This way you can create a directory named /var/www/sub.domain/webroot and access it with the url sub.domain.dev.example.com.

The line php_admin_value auto_prepend_file /var/www/setdocroot.php fixes the docroot on some systems like OSX 10.9+

Here is the content of setdocroot.php :

<?php
$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] = str_replace($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], '', $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']);
?>

Upvotes: 1

cha0s
cha0s

Reputation: 53

You have to qualify the backreferences when you want to put a '.' in the file path. So you need to have it like this:

VirtualDocumentRoot /var/www/%2.0.%3_%1

Upvotes: 4

Svetoslav Marinov
Svetoslav Marinov

Reputation: 1546

What I am noticing with this configuration is that $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] is pointing to /var/www/html and not to the vhost's doc root. weird.

Update (2010-07-24):

I just wrote a blog post how to setup your http proof server http://www.devcha.com/2010/07/how-to-setup-your-http-proof-server.html

Upvotes: 0

starmonkey
starmonkey

Reputation: 3157

Regarding the OP and the issue with "/var/www/html" being set:

The problem I had to this was using %1 instead of %2. Here's my working example:

ServerAlias www.*.org.au
UseCanonicalName Off
VirtualDocumentRoot /path/to/sites/%2/pub

Hope that helps someone!

I read the docs on "Directory Name Interpolation" in mod_vhost_alias docs.

Upvotes: 2

David Z
David Z

Reputation: 131550

Apache typically will pick the first virtual host whose ServerName or ServerAlias matches the host name provided in the Host HTTP header. In your case, since you have no ServerName directives, Apache supposedly uses a reverse DNS lookup on the IP address to fake a server name, and presuming that the reverse DNS leads to domain.com, which doesn't match, Apache then defaults to the first virtual host. Sounds complicated, I know... the bottom line is, you should use ServerName and ServerAlias to make the configuration explicit. Try something more like this:

NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
    ServerName domain.com
    ServerAlias www.domain.com
    VirtualDocumentRoot /var/www/%0
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
    ServerName sub.domain.com
    ServerAlias *.domain.com
    VirtualDocumentRoot /var/www/%2.%3_%1
</VirtualHost>

That should use /var/www/domain.com for http://domain.com and /var/www/www.domain.com for http://www.domain.com, both of which are served by the first vhost, and /var/www/sub.domain.com for http://sub.domain.com, /var/www/blah.domain.com for http://blah.domain.com, and so on.

Upvotes: 14

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