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diff --git a/docs/manual/rewrite/vhosts.html.en b/docs/manual/rewrite/vhosts.html.en index 5a2ee588a8..60e156cd7d 100644 --- a/docs/manual/rewrite/vhosts.html.en +++ b/docs/manual/rewrite/vhosts.html.en @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ This file is generated from xml source: DO NOT EDIT XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX --> -<title>Using mod_rewrite for virtual hosting - Apache HTTP Server</title> +<title>Dynamic mass virtual hosts with mod_rewrite - Apache HTTP Server</title> <link href="../style/css/manual.css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" title="Main stylesheet" /> <link href="../style/css/manual-loose-100pc.css" rel="alternate stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" title="No Sidebar - Default font size" /> <link href="../style/css/manual-print.css" rel="stylesheet" media="print" type="text/css" /> @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ <img alt="" src="../images/feather.gif" /></div> <div class="up"><a href="./"><img title="<-" alt="<-" src="../images/left.gif" /></a></div> <div id="path"> -<a href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/">HTTP Server</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/">Documentation</a> > <a href="../">Version 2.3</a> > <a href="./">Rewrite</a></div><div id="page-content"><div id="preamble"><h1>Using mod_rewrite for virtual hosting</h1> +<a href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/">HTTP Server</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/">Documentation</a> > <a href="../">Version 2.3</a> > <a href="./">Rewrite</a></div><div id="page-content"><div id="preamble"><h1>Dynamic mass virtual hosts with mod_rewrite</h1> <div class="toplang"> <p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="../en/rewrite/vhosts.html" title="English"> en </a></p> </div> @@ -32,10 +32,14 @@ virtual hosts. You should first consider the <a href="../vhosts/mass.html">alter mod_rewrite.</div> </div> -<div id="quickview"><h3>See also</h3><ul class="seealso"><li><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">Module documentation</a></li><li><a href="intro.html">mod_rewrite introduction</a></li><li><a href="remapping.html">Redirection and remapping</a></li><li><a href="access.html">Controlling access</a></li><li><a href="proxy.html">Proxying</a></li><li><a href="advanced.html">Advanced techniques and tricks</a></li><li><a href="avoid.html">When not to use mod_rewrite</a></li></ul></div> +<div id="quickview"><ul id="toc"><li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#per-hostname">Virtual Hosts For Artitrary Hostnames</a></li> +<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#simple.rewrite">Dynamic + Virtual Hosts Using <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code></a></li> +<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#xtra-conf">Using a Separate Virtual Host Configuration File</a></li> +</ul><h3>See also</h3><ul class="seealso"><li><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">Module documentation</a></li><li><a href="intro.html">mod_rewrite introduction</a></li><li><a href="remapping.html">Redirection and remapping</a></li><li><a href="access.html">Controlling access</a></li><li><a href="proxy.html">Proxying</a></li><li><a href="advanced.html">Advanced techniques and tricks</a></li><li><a href="avoid.html">When not to use mod_rewrite</a></li></ul></div> <div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div> <div class="section"> -<h2><a name="uservhosts" id="uservhosts">Virtual Hosts Per User</a></h2> +<h2><a name="per-hostname" id="per-hostname">Virtual Hosts For Artitrary Hostnames</a></h2> @@ -43,14 +47,14 @@ mod_rewrite.</div> <dt>Description:</dt> <dd> - <p>We want to automatically create a virtual host for every user who - has an account on our web server system, without having to create + <p>We want to automatically create a virtual host for every hostname + which resolves in our domain, without having to create new VirtualHost sections.</p> <p>In this recipe, we assume that we'll be using the hostname - <code>www.<strong>username</strong>.example.com</code> for each + <code>www.<strong>SITE</strong>.example.com</code> for each user, and serve their content out of - <code>/home/<strong>username</strong>/www</code>.</p> + <code>/home/<strong>SITE</strong>/www</code>.</p> </dd> <dt>Solution:</dt> @@ -59,7 +63,10 @@ mod_rewrite.</div> <div class="example"><pre> RewriteEngine on -RewriteCond %{<strong>HTTP_HOST</strong>} ^www\.<strong>([^.]+)</strong>\.example\.com$ + +RewriteMap lowercase int:tolower + +RewriteCond %{lowercase:%{<strong>HTTP_HOST</strong>}} ^www\.<strong>([^.]+)</strong>\.example\.com$ RewriteRule ^(.*) /home/<strong>%1</strong>/www$1 </pre></div></dd> @@ -72,6 +79,10 @@ RewriteRule ^(.*) /home/<strong>%1</strong>/www$1 records for each hostname, or a DNS wildcard record. Creating DNS records is beyond the scope of this document.</div> +<p>The internal <code>tolower</code> RewriteMap directive is used to +ensure that the hostnames being used are all lowercase, so that there is +no ambiguity in the directory structure which must be created.</p> + <p>Parentheses used in a <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritecond">RewriteCond</a></code> are captured into the backreferences <code>%1</code>, <code>%2</code>, etc, while parentheses used in <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewriterule">RewriteRule</a></code> are @@ -88,6 +99,102 @@ dynamic content, and Alias resolution. </dd> </dl> +</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div> +<div class="section"> +<h2><a name="simple.rewrite" id="simple.rewrite">Dynamic + Virtual Hosts Using <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code></a></h2> + + <p>This extract from <code>httpd.conf</code> does the same + thing as <a href="#simple">the first example</a>. The first + half is very similar to the corresponding part above, except for + some changes, required for backward compatibility and to make the + <code>mod_rewrite</code> part work properly; the second half + configures <code>mod_rewrite</code> to do the actual work.</p> + + <p>Because <code>mod_rewrite</code> runs before other URI translation + modules (e.g., <code>mod_alias</code>), <code>mod_rewrite</code> must + be told to explicitly ignore any URLs that would have been handled + by those modules. And, because these rules would otherwise bypass + any <code>ScriptAlias</code> directives, we must have + <code>mod_rewrite</code> explicitly enact those mappings.</p> + +<div class="example"><p><code> +# get the server name from the Host: header<br /> +UseCanonicalName Off<br /> +<br /> +# splittable logs<br /> +LogFormat "%{Host}i %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %s %b" vcommon<br /> +CustomLog logs/access_log vcommon<br /> +<br /> +<Directory /www/hosts><br /> +<span class="indent"> + # ExecCGI is needed here because we can't force<br /> + # CGI execution in the way that ScriptAlias does<br /> + Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI<br /> +</span> +</Directory><br /> +<br /> +RewriteEngine On<br /> +<br /> +# a ServerName derived from a Host: header may be any case at all<br /> +RewriteMap lowercase int:tolower<br /> +<br /> +## deal with normal documents first:<br /> +# allow Alias /icons/ to work - repeat for other aliases<br /> +RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/icons/<br /> +# allow CGIs to work<br /> +RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/cgi-bin/<br /> +# do the magic<br /> +RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /www/hosts/${lowercase:%{SERVER_NAME}}/docs/$1<br /> +<br /> +## and now deal with CGIs - we have to force a handler<br /> +RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/cgi-bin/<br /> +RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /www/hosts/${lowercase:%{SERVER_NAME}}/cgi-bin/$1 [H=cgi-script]<br /> +</code></p></div> + +</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div> +<div class="section"> +<h2><a name="xtra-conf" id="xtra-conf">Using a Separate Virtual Host Configuration File</a></h2> + + <p>This arrangement uses more advanced <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code> + features to work out the translation from virtual host to document + root, from a separate configuration file. This provides more + flexibility, but requires more complicated configuration.</p> + + <p>The <code>vhost.map</code> file should look something like + this:</p> + +<div class="example"><p><code> +www.customer-1.com /www/customers/1<br /> +www.customer-2.com /www/customers/2<br /> +# ...<br /> +www.customer-N.com /www/customers/N<br /> +</code></p></div> + + <p>The <code>httpd.conf</code> should contain the following:</p> + +<div class="example"><p><code> +RewriteEngine on<br /> +<br /> +RewriteMap lowercase int:tolower<br /> +<br /> +# define the map file<br /> +RewriteMap vhost txt:/www/conf/vhost.map<br /> +<br /> +# deal with aliases as above<br /> +RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/icons/<br /> +RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/cgi-bin/<br /> +RewriteCond ${lowercase:%{SERVER_NAME}} ^(.+)$<br /> +# this does the file-based remap<br /> +RewriteCond ${vhost:%1} ^(/.*)$<br /> +RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ %1/docs/$1<br /> +<br /> +RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/cgi-bin/<br /> +RewriteCond ${lowercase:%{SERVER_NAME}} ^(.+)$<br /> +RewriteCond ${vhost:%1} ^(/.*)$<br /> +RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ %1/cgi-bin/$1 [H=cgi-script] +</code></p></div> + </div></div> <div class="bottomlang"> <p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="../en/rewrite/vhosts.html" title="English"> en </a></p> |