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yegor256
Asked: 2011-03-11 00:17:12 +0800 CST

How to add new hostname to existing virtual host in apache?

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This is my apache configuration (most interesting part of it):

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName example.com
  ...
</VirtualHost>

Works fine and my server properly responds to example.com:80 HTTP requests. Now I'm going to add an alias to this domain. I want all requests to my-new-domain.com:80/test produce the same responses as to example.com, for example:

my-new-domain.com/test/xyz -> example.com/xyz

What is important, I don't want to see HTTP redirections (301 code). I want to hide example.com URL from a user. All that he has to see is my-new-domain.com/test URL.

apache-2.2 mod-rewrite

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    put

    ServerAlias my-new-domain.com

    inside the VirtualHost section

    for the rewrite

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}   ^my-new-domain\.com
RewriteRule /test/(.*)     /$1                   [QSA,L,P]
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  2. Use mod_rewrite with mod_proxy (https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html). Otherwise, if domains differ, mod_rewrite performs an external rewrite even if both are served from the same host.

    Something like

    RewriteRule ^http://my-new-domain.com/test http://example.com [QSA,P]

    Another solution would be to create a symlink test in my-new-domain.com’s root dir to the root dir of example.com.

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