Since you already have two separate domains why not use virtual hosts each
with it's own document root?
IC
On Tue, Jun 11, 2019, 9:18 AM Jim Weill <moon...@icsi.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> We have a test server, with test sites that are in two different branches
> of development, but essentially the same base content. They live at
> /x/y/z/testsite and /x/y/z/test-site. We have other sites such as wikis
> and one-offs which need to stay online on our production server, and I have
> been testing using rewrites to force the URL to conform to the directory
> path that is defined in the .conf file.
>
> So for example, in the testsite.conf file, I have the following:
> RewriteEngine On
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com$ [NC]
> RewriteRule ^/$ https://testsite.example.com/testsite/ [L,R]
>
> alias /testsite "/x/y/z/testsite"
> <Directory "/x/y/z/testsite">
> Require all granted
> RewriteEngine On
> RewriteBase /testsite
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
> RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
> RewriteCond %{HTTPS} Off
> RewriteRule ^(.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !testsite.example.com
> RewriteRule ^.*$ https://testsite.example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R]
> </Directory>
>
> The test-site.conf file is the exact same except for adding the hypen in
> the names.
>
> We also have the following in ssl.conf for these:
> RewriteRule ^(.*)/testsite$ $1/testsite/ [R,NC]
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} testsite\.example\.com
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/testsite(.*)
> RewriteRule (.*) https://testsite.example.com%{REQUEST_URI}
> [R]
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} testsite.example.com
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$
> RewriteRule (.*) https://testsite.example.com/testsite/
> [R]
>
> RewriteRule ^(.*)/test-site$ $1/test-site/ [R,NC]
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} test-site\.example\.com
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/test-site(.*)
> RewriteRule (.*) https://test-site.example.com%{REQUEST_URI}
> [R]
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} test-site.example.com
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$
> RewriteRule (.*) https://test-site.example.com/test-site
> [R]
>
>
> If I leave this as shown, and restart the service, neither page loads at
> all. If I comment out the three lines after "RewriteRule ^(.*)/testsite$"
> and "RewriteRule ^(.*)/test-site$" respectively, the sites load properly.
> We have this exact set of rewrites on ssl.conf for all sites on the
> production server and it rewrites the URL properly. So I'm not sure where
> it's failing on the test site. Logs are set to trace8 on the test server
> and I'm not getting anything that helps tells me where the problem is.
>
>
> jim
>
