Serving different charsets per virtual host

Question

On a centos Server 6.5, apache 2.2.15 is it possible to server multiple charsets to different virtual hosts?

I know that setting the default Charset is done by adding into the httpd.conf file:

AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

However some of the websites we have need to be encoded using ISO-8859-1 but the other websites that are served by Symfony need to be encoded with UTF-8. Is it possible to add a default charset per virtual host or does this need to be done using .htaccess files?

Whatever you put in .htaccess files can be put into separate site vhosts. — Peter, Dec 05 '14 at 13:51

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 05 '14 at 15:01

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You can specify the default charset per directory or vhost, see httpd.apache.org.

In short:

<Directory /some/dir>
    CharsetDefault ISO-8859-1
</Directory>

You'll also need to ensure that the mod_charset_lite module is enabled.

answered Dec 05 '14 at 15:01

wurtel

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Is it the same for Apache 2.4? – user2513149 Sep 10 '17 at 11:58
Yes, follow the httpd.apache.org link and change the 2.2 in the URL to 2.4, it's basically the same. – wurtel Nov 01 '17 at 11:52

Serving different charsets per virtual host

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