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Steve
Asked: 2016-11-24 05:17:04 +0800 CST

How do I make example.com/advice as vhost

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So I am not sure how this kind of set up it called so it is hard for me to google it and see if I am going in the right direction.

What I have currently

I have a CMS that has a vhost for www.example.com, the admin interface for this is under a sub domain admin.www.example.com.

What I need

Now apart from that CMS I need to have a forum platform up and running. This is how would like it to be set up

  • www.example.com -> CMS
  • www.example.com/advice -> forum

Is a set up like this possible with apache?

Details

I am running on centos7 with apache 2.4.6.

My current vhost is like the following

<VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerName example.com
   DocumentRoot /www/example.com
   SetEnv ADMIN_DOMAIM 0
   <Directory "/www/example.com>
              AllowOverride All
              Options FollowSymLinks
   </Directory>
   php_value mbstring.func_overload 0
   DirectoryIndex index.php
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerName admin.example.com
   DocumentRoot /www/example.com
   SetEnv ADMIN_DOMAIN 1
   <Directory /www/example.com>
              AllowOverride All
              Options FollowSymLinks
   </Directory>
   php_value mbstring.func_overload 0
   DirectoryIndex index.php
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:443>
        SSLEngine on
        SSLProtocol all -SSLv2
        SSLCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT:!SSLv2:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW
        SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/localhost.crt
        SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/private/localhost.key
        SetEnv ADMIN_DOMAIN 0
        ServerName example.com
        DocumentRoot /www/example.com
        <Directory /www/example.com>
              AllowOverride All
              Options FollowSymLinks
        </Directory>
        php_value mbstring.func_overload 0
        DirectoryIndex index.php
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:443>
        SSLEngine on
        SSLProtocol all -SSLv2
        SSLCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT:!SSLv2:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW
        SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/localhost.crt
        SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/private/localhost.key
        SetEnv ADMIN_DOMAIN 1
        ServerName admin.example.com
        DocumentRoot /www/example.com
        <Directory /www/example.com>
              AllowOverride All
              Options FollowSymLinks
        </Directory>
        php_value mbstring.func_overload 0
        DirectoryIndex index.php
</VirtualHost>
virtualhost apache-2.4

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Just create a directory called "advice" inside DocumentRoot (/www/example.com in your case) and install the forum platform there.

    Also for the CMS to ignore that directory, you need to add the following to the .htaccess located inside of advice RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

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