Re: mod_rewrite virtual hosting question...

---- jon <jon@trafficdesigns.com> wrote:
> I'm totally confused when it comes to mod_rewrite, but here's what I'm
> trying to do -- redirect any instance of a given domain to a specific
> folder.
>
> So.... let's say I want to visit example.com/index.php, the request
> should go to /var/www/sites/example.com/index.php
>
> What I'm looking for is something flexible -- I don't want to have to
> add vhosts everytime we add a domain to the server, just a site.com
> folder in /var/www/sites
>
> Can anyone help... or point the way to good resources?
>
> Thanks....
>

>     -- jon

You need to use virtual hosts. mod_rewrite's first argument accepts a path, second argument accepts a path or URL.

<pre>
--------
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule    ^(.*)$    http://www.othersite.com$1
--------
</pre>

This takes a request:

http://example.com/index.php

and parses it, so $1='/index.php'.

Then serves http://www.othersite.com/index.php

Where's the string 'example.com'? Nowhere, the regular expression "^(.*)$" sucked in the whole thing. That's all that is available for mod_rewrite to process.

Now quit trying to be lazy with the 5 minutes it takes to make a new vhost, there's a reason why people get paid for this stuff :)
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