Bug 29260

Summary: new v-hosting features desired
Product: Apache httpd-2 Reporter: Adam Harrison <adam>
Component: mod_vhost_aliasAssignee: Apache HTTPD Bugs Mailing List <bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3    
Version: 2.0.48   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: FreeBSD   

Description Adam Harrison 2004-05-27 23:03:48 UTC 
The base functionality of mod_vhost_alias for dynamic mass virtual hosting seems to work great, but 
there are a couple things that need to be changed to work with it.

First, I would like www.domain.com and domain.com to work off of the same directory. An easy way 
would be to have ServerAlias work with the %0, %1, etc variables. The same thing with logging. It would 
be nice to be able to to use %0 in specifying the path to the log ot the log name.

In the end I would like to be able to do something like this:

UseCanonicalName Off
LogFormat "%V %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %s %b" vcommon
CustomLog /web/hosts/%0/access_log vcommon
VirtualDocumentRoot /web/hosts/%0/htdocs
VirtualScriptAlias /web/hosts/%0/cgi-bin
ServerAlias www.%0

The weird thing is RewriteRules don't seem to work either.  Even something as simpe as

RewriteRule ^/web/hosts/www\.(.*) /web/hosts/$1 has no effect either before or after the 
VirtualDocumentRoot statement.

It would be nice if the mod_vhost_alias module worked more seemlessly with the other modules in 
Apache.
Comment 1 Joshua Slive 2004-05-28 11:56:23 UTC 
The log file suggestion is not feasible.  You should simply include the
servername in your logformat and split up the logs after-the-fact.

The domain-alias problem is usually solved by using symbolic links in the
filesystem or by using a RewriteRule to canonicalize the requests.

The RewriteRule that you include does not look valid to me.  It is matching
against a physical path, whereas it should be referring to a web path.  Can you
try with a properly-formed RewriteRule?
Comment 2 Joshua Slive 2007-09-25 11:14:19 UTC 
Most of this is WONTFIX, but the stripping www thing is reported elsewhere.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 40441 ***