J. Bakshi wrote: > Eric Covener wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:04 PM, J. Bakshi <joyd...@infoservices.in> wrote: >> >> >>> Hello list, >>> >>> I am suffering with document root issue with my apache config . I have >>> placed a config like >>> >>> ``````````````` >>> >>> Alias /personal/joydeep /var/personal_work_area/joydeep >>> >>> >>> <Directory /var/personal_work_area/joydeep/> >>> DirectoryIndex index.php >>> >>> </Directory> >>> >>> `````````` >>> >>> But realurl is not working here as rewrite rule always use /var/www as its >>> document root. Is it possible to force the document root inside <Directory> >>> ? >>> Please let me know. >>> >>> >> If your rewrite rules are in htaccess, are you specifying RewriteBase? >> >> What is "not working"? >> >> >> > > Thanks for your response. Here is the setup. I have placed a folder > called test at > > /var/personal_work_area/joydeep > > The test folder has alice.html and bob.html and the .htaccess is > > ```` > Options +FollowSymLinks > RewriteEngine On > RewriteBase / > > RewriteRule ^alice.html$ bob.html > ```` > > When i visit alice.html apache fires an error at log as > > ```` > [error] [client 192.168.1.100] script '/var/www/index.php' not found or > unable to stat > ````````````` > > It should look at /var/personal_work_area/joydeep but here it is looking at > /var/www which is defined at the main httpd.conf as document root. > > >
Eric, I have solved it :-) Thanks for showing me the right track I have placed the follwing in .htaccess ```` RewriteBase /personal/joydeep/test ```` and now the rewriterule is working fine. By the way ; I am also trying to make it working inside apache configuration. Thanks once again -- জয়দীপ বক্সী --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
