Jaume Teixi wrote: > > problem is that > > Document Root for each virtual host is on > /var/www/www.virtualhost1.com > and I'm trying to forward http://www.virtualhost1.com/stats to > /var/reports/www.virtualhost1.com > > so rewrite rule > > RewriteRule ^/stats(.*) /var/reports/%{SERVER_NAME}$1 [PT] > > really looks for > /var/www/www.virtualhost1.com/var/reports/www.virtualhost1.com > > not to > /var/reports/www.virtualhost1.com > > how to handle this:( ???? I'm not sure whether I understood in every detail what you are trying to achieve -- maybe you could briefly state which document is supposed to be served if a user requests e.g. http://www.virtualhost1.com/stats/index.html ( is it the file /var/reports/www.virtualhost1.com/index.html ?)
If so, the combination of rewrite and Alias (as you originally had it) should do the job when you specify [PT] -- and only then [PT] is needed. In this case the Alias statement may map to any path outside of the DocumentRoot. So when using Alias /reports /var/reports the rewritten string (not the document root) would have to supply the host part. When using the RewriteRule alone, you would have to make sure that the string portion, which comes out of the rewrite rule, will give the final document path when concatenated to the DocumentRoot. For this you would either have to use a different DocumentRoot or a different rewrite rule to avoid getting the duplicate occurences. -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --