how to create a VirtualHost to serve only static content

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I want to create a virtual host in apache such that it serves only static content like stylesheets, videos, images, javascripts, text files, etc. I am not looking at any "processing" capabilities from this virtual host.

To extend the question, a good answer would include directives "to inform the browser to keep files in its own cache" and "to have be cookieless requests". — SandRock, Dec 21 '10 at 16:18

viam0Zah · Accepted Answer · 2010-07-12T07:20:14.817

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Create a VirtualHost entry as follows:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin admin@domain.tld
    ServerName media.domain.tld

    DocumentRoot "/Library/WebServer/Documents/media"

    ErrorLog "/private/var/log/apache2/media-error_log"
    CustomLog "/private/var/log/apache2/media-access_log" common

    <Directory /Library/WebServer/Documents/media>
    Order deny,allow
    Allow from all
    SetHandler default-handler
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

edited Jul 12 '10 at 07:20

answered Jul 07 '10 at 11:27

viam0Zah

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I removed the `ServerAdmin`, `ServerName` and all those lines pertaining to logs and then restarted apache. I observe it is serving php files – deostroll Jul 09 '10 at 10:45
@deostroll: I updatd my answer to fit your needs. – viam0Zah Jul 09 '10 at 11:55
it didn't work as expected. Do we still need the `Location` tag? – deostroll Jul 12 '10 at 06:26
@deostroll: you can remove `Location`, `SetHandler` can be placed inside the `Directory` tag, too. Change its value to `default-handler`. – viam0Zah Jul 12 '10 at 07:18

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