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Asked: 2009-11-17 06:51:06 +0800 CST

DocumentRoot and htaccess files

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I have a muluitple vhosts set up all with the same DocumentRoot pointing to a common set of files, I have set up AliasMatch for for the bespoke files on each site, I was wondering if I can have a .htaccess file for each vhost.

#Sample vhost
<VirtualHost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80>
    ServerName mytest.com
    ServerAlias www.mytest.com
    DocumentRoot /home/commonfiles/public_html
    ......
    AliasMatch /css/(.*) /home/ftpuser/public_html/mycss/$1
</VirtualHost>

#Sample vhost 2
<VirtualHost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80>
    ServerName mytest2.com
    ServerAlias www.mytest2.com
    DocumentRoot /home/commonfiles/public_html
    ......
    AliasMatch /css/(.*) /home/ftpuser2/public_html/mycss/$1
</VirtualHost>

I have added in an AliasMatch for the .htaccess but that didn't work.

#vhost 1
AliasMatch /.htaccess /home/ftpuser/public_html/.htaccess
#vhost 2
AliasMatch /.htaccess /home/ftpuser2/public_html/.htaccess

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

apache-2.2

1 Answers

  1. I doubt that's going to work, the override stuff is probably happening beforehand. I'm not 100% here without wading through documentation.

    What I'd do though is look at the AccessFileName directive which can be specified per VirtualHost.

    Specify a different AccessFileName in the two VirtualHosts and you should be good to go. Bear in mind, this will change the filename Apache looks for override directives for all sub-directories accessed via that VirtualHost also.

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