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Kyle
Asked: 2010-03-31 17:04:15 +0800 CST

Help with Rewrite rules

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I was wondering what a rewrite statement that looks for this situation:

I want to have multiple users on my server. Each user can have VirtualDocumentRoot like sites in their directory. For example, they just make a directory like example.com in their home directory, and it's hosted.

The problem is I don't know if VirtualDocumentRoot can do this, or if it would take a rewrite rule that looks in all the users folders for a domain.

Can anybody help me?

apache-2.2 hosting mod-rewrite

1 Answers

  1. VirtualDocumentRoot is indeed the directive you want. This site has some details, including some very important caveats about Bad Things that can happen with PHP and the $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] value but the basics:

    <virtualhost>
     DocumentRoot /home/www/sites
     VirtualDocumentRoot /home/www/sites/%0/
</virtualhost>

    should send you to /home/www/sites/foo.com if the browser requests foo.com.

    You should also spend some quality time with the Apache Manual's mod_vhost_alias section which will give you better configuration details than my 5-second slap job above.

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