Apache2 dynamic documentroot depending on URL

Question

I have looked at setting up an Apache server.

I want to run our site example.com on the server, as well as testing test.example.com.

This I can setup by having two almost identical VirtualHost in the configure file in sites-available.

What I then want is a development subdomain, but these need to be unique per developer, e.g. mol.test.example.com. Is there a smart way to set this up?

I have setup the production to take data from /var/www/live/, the test to take data from /var/www/test/ and would like the development to take data from e.g. /var/www/dev/mol/, where mol is the first part of the URL. (the sub-subdomain for test)

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 19 '11 at 16:32

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VirtualDocumentRoot should do the trick.

Something like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName testsites.domain.com
    ServerAlias *.test.domain.com
    VirtualDocumentRoot /var/www/dev/%1
</VirtualHost>

answered Jul 19 '11 at 16:32

Shane Madden

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Thanks! Is there a way to avoid the `testsites.domain.com`? Where does this even send people? – Mads Ohm Larsen Jul 19 '11 at 17:20
It's placeholder garbage - you can put `ServerName i.like.cheese` in there for the same effect. – Shane Madden Jul 19 '11 at 18:21
But setting it to `testsites.domain.com` gives me an error when going to `testsites.domain.com`. Setting it to `i.like.cheese` seems a bit better :) – Mads Ohm Larsen Jul 19 '11 at 18:43

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 05 '18 at 16:25

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<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName domain.com
    ServerAlias *.domain.com
    VirtualDocumentRoot /var/www/html/%1
</VirtualHost>

RewriteRule ^/photo/(.*) /open.php?id=$1 [L,NE,PT]

http://rustyrazorblade.com/2009/01/using-mod_rewrite-with-virtualdocumentroot/

edited Jan 05 '18 at 16:25

Colt

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answered Jan 05 '18 at 14:20

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Apache2 dynamic documentroot depending on URL

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