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24 <p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="../en/rewrite/vhosts.html" title="English"> en </a></p>
28 <p>This document supplements the <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code>
29 <a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">reference documentation</a>. It describes
30 how you can use <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code> to create dynamically
31 configured virtual hosts.</p>
33 <div class="warning">mod_rewrite is not the best way to configure
34 virtual hosts. You should first consider the <a href="../vhosts/mass.html">alternatives</a> before resorting to
35 mod_rewrite. See also the "<a href="avoid.html#vhosts">how to avoid
36 mod_rewrite</a> document.</div>
39 <div id="quickview"><ul id="toc"><li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#per-hostname">Virtual Hosts For Arbitrary Hostnames</a></li>
40 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#simple.rewrite">Dynamic
41 Virtual Hosts Using <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code></a></li>
42 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#xtra-conf">Using a Separate Virtual Host Configuration File</a></li>
43 </ul><h3>See also</h3><ul class="seealso"><li><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">Module documentation</a></li><li><a href="intro.html">mod_rewrite introduction</a></li><li><a href="remapping.html">Redirection and remapping</a></li><li><a href="access.html">Controlling access</a></li><li><a href="proxy.html">Proxying</a></li><li><a href="rewritemap.html">RewriteMap</a></li><li><a href="advanced.html">Advanced techniques</a></li><li><a href="avoid.html">When not to use mod_rewrite</a></li></ul><ul class="seealso"><li><a href="#comments_section">Comments</a></li></ul></div>
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46 <h2><a name="per-hostname" id="per-hostname">Virtual Hosts For Arbitrary Hostnames</a></h2>
54 <p>We want to automatically create a virtual host for every hostname
55 which resolves in our domain, without having to create
56 new VirtualHost sections.</p>
58 <p>In this recipe, we assume that we'll be using the hostname
59 <code>www.<strong>SITE</strong>.example.com</code> for each
60 user, and serve their content out of
61 <code>/home/<strong>SITE</strong>/www</code>.</p>
68 <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">RewriteEngine on
70 RewriteMap lowercase int:tolower
72 RewriteCond ${lowercase:%{<strong>HTTP_HOST</strong>}} ^www\.<strong>([^.]+)</strong>\.example\.com$
73 RewriteRule ^(.*) /home/<strong>%1</strong>/www$1</pre>
79 <div class="warning">You will need to take care of the DNS
80 resolution - Apache does
81 not handle name resolution. You'll need either to create CNAME
82 records for each hostname, or a DNS wildcard record. Creating DNS
83 records is beyond the scope of this document.</div>
85 <p>The internal <code>tolower</code> RewriteMap directive is used to
86 ensure that the hostnames being used are all lowercase, so that there is
87 no ambiguity in the directory structure which must be created.</p>
89 <p>Parentheses used in a <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritecond">RewriteCond</a></code> are captured into the
90 backreferences <code>%1</code>, <code>%2</code>, etc, while parentheses
91 used in <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewriterule">RewriteRule</a></code> are
92 captured into the backreferences <code>$1</code>, <code>$2</code>,
96 As with many techniques discussed in this document, mod_rewrite really
97 isn't the best way to accomplish this task. You should, instead,
98 consider using <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_vhost_alias.html">mod_vhost_alias</a></code> instead, as it will much
99 more gracefully handle anything beyond serving static files, such as any
100 dynamic content, and Alias resolution.
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106 <div class="section">
107 <h2><a name="simple.rewrite" id="simple.rewrite">Dynamic
108 Virtual Hosts Using <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code></a></h2>
110 <p>This extract from <code>httpd.conf</code> does the same
111 thing as <a href="#per-hostname">the first example</a>. The first
112 half is very similar to the corresponding part above, except for
113 some changes, required for backward compatibility and to make the
114 <code>mod_rewrite</code> part work properly; the second half
115 configures <code>mod_rewrite</code> to do the actual work.</p>
117 <p>Because <code>mod_rewrite</code> runs before other URI translation
118 modules (e.g., <code>mod_alias</code>), <code>mod_rewrite</code> must
119 be told to explicitly ignore any URLs that would have been handled
120 by those modules. And, because these rules would otherwise bypass
121 any <code>ScriptAlias</code> directives, we must have
122 <code>mod_rewrite</code> explicitly enact those mappings.</p>
124 <pre class="prettyprint lang-config"># get the server name from the Host: header
128 LogFormat "%{Host}i %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %s %b" vcommon
129 CustomLog logs/access_log vcommon
131 <Directory /www/hosts>
132 # ExecCGI is needed here because we can't force
133 # CGI execution in the way that ScriptAlias does
134 Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
139 # a ServerName derived from a Host: header may be any case at all
140 RewriteMap lowercase int:tolower
142 ## deal with normal documents first:
143 # allow Alias /icons/ to work - repeat for other aliases
144 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/icons/
146 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/cgi-bin/
148 RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /www/hosts/${lowercase:%{SERVER_NAME}}/docs/$1
150 ## and now deal with CGIs - we have to force a handler
151 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/cgi-bin/
152 RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /www/hosts/${lowercase:%{SERVER_NAME}}/cgi-bin/$1 [H=cgi-script]</pre>
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157 <h2><a name="xtra-conf" id="xtra-conf">Using a Separate Virtual Host Configuration File</a></h2>
159 <p>This arrangement uses more advanced <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code>
160 features to work out the translation from virtual host to document
161 root, from a separate configuration file. This provides more
162 flexibility, but requires more complicated configuration.</p>
164 <p>The <code>vhost.map</code> file should look something like
167 <div class="example"><p><code>
168 customer-1.example.com /www/customers/1<br />
169 customer-2.example.com /www/customers/2<br />
171 customer-N.example.com /www/customers/N<br />
174 <p>The <code>httpd.conf</code> should contain the following:</p>
176 <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">RewriteEngine on
178 RewriteMap lowercase int:tolower
180 # define the map file
181 RewriteMap vhost txt:/www/conf/vhost.map
183 # deal with aliases as above
184 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/icons/
185 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/cgi-bin/
186 RewriteCond ${lowercase:%{SERVER_NAME}} ^(.+)$
187 # this does the file-based remap
188 RewriteCond ${vhost:%1} ^(/.*)$
189 RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ %1/docs/$1
191 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/cgi-bin/
192 RewriteCond ${lowercase:%{SERVER_NAME}} ^(.+)$
193 RewriteCond ${vhost:%1} ^(/.*)$
194 RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ %1/cgi-bin/$1 [H=cgi-script]</pre>
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