On Apr 19, 2013, at 4:48 AM, "Pete Houston" <p...@openstrike.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 06:57:13PM -0400, Chris Arnold wrote: >> We have a server at http://rootsite.net. We also have another site/app that >> runs at http://apps.rootsite.net. We host client applications on our server >> using apache so the above site/app needs to be >> http://apps.ourclientsdomain.tld. Here is what i have gotten to work in the >> site/app virtual host file: >> >> ServerName apps.* >> >> RewriteEngine On >> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^apps\. >> RedirectMatch ^/$ /somealias/ >> >> This appears to work, however, it has also taken over our root site. So >> http://rootsite.net now takes you to http://rootsite/somealias. How can i >> stop this from happening? I assume i have something amiss in the above >> rewrite? > > Here is a possible solution without mod_rewrite: > > <VirtualHost 1.2.3.4:80> > ServerName rootsite.net > ... config specific to this site here ... > </VirtualHost> > > <VirtualHost 1.2.3.4:80> > ServerName apps.rootsite.net > ServerAlias apps.* > ... config specific to this other site here ... > UseCanonicalName Off > RedirectMatch ^/$ /somealias/ > </VirtualHost> > > In this way the Redirect only applies to the virtual hosts which are > specified and leaves all others untouched. The added bonus is that you > can avoid loading the heavy mod_rewrite at all. That does help... I just wanted a way to rewrite http://apps.* to http://apps*/alias. Http://apps. will never change so I was trying to have apache catch the apps. part and rewrite it.
