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Asked: 2012-10-04 00:54:51 +0800 CST

Apache .shared folder

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There are already a bunch of rules in my Apache configuration. What I want to add is the following. There are some shared folders (.shared): /var/www/.shared/ and /var/www/.include/.shared/ and /var/www/.include/(.*)/.shared/. Now when someone visits http://domain.com/test.png it first executes the existing apache rules and will (when the file/folder was not found) look in those .shared folders.

So suppose I've got this filesystem: /var/www/.shared/dog.png /var/www/.shared/test.gif and /var/www/domain.com/dog.png. Now when someone visits http://domain.com/test.gif, it must load the test.gif from the .shared folder. Now when someone visits http://domain.com/dog.png it must load the dog.png from the domain.com folder (because the existing apache rules will be executed first).

apache-2.2

1 Answers

  1. You should use mod_rewrite module for apache2 and following rule. Following can be put in either virtual host configuation or in .htaccess file in DocumentRoot of your site.

    RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/.*)/([^/]+)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ %1/.shared/%2

    What this does essentially is check if file exists, if it does not then split your REQUEST_URI that looks like ...

    /directory/sub/directory/file.png

    to 2 parts, first part is between two slashes '/' without second slash, and second one has file.png part .

    /directory/sub/directory file.png

    This then allows you to insert '.shared' in path of new request where you want to send user to.

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