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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by Marten Lehmann <le...@variomedia.de> on 2002/04/29 18:17:40 UTC
mass-hosting and DOCUMENT_ROOT
Hello,
as far as I know there are 3 ways to realize mass-hosting with apache
(host to path translation):
1. mod_rewrite
2. virtualdocumentroot (mod_vhost_alias)
3. using a mod_perl-handler for URI-translation
At this time I'm using the third way for my webhosting-system. But all
ways have one problem: They can't set DOCUMENT_ROOT for each host, as it
would have been set when the host would appear in httpd.conf as
virtualhost with documentroot-directive.
My idea is to write my own apache-module, that does the host to path
translation and additionally set the DOCUMENT_ROOT variable. But before
I start, I would like to know, if it is possible to set this
environment-variable in this phase so it takes effect in the later
content-processing. I tried to set the variable inside my
mod_perl-handler, but when the script I called through http was
executed, the standard-document-root appeared again.
Regards
Marten Lehmann
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Re: mass-hosting and DOCUMENT_ROOT
Posted by Artiom Morozov <ar...@phreaker.net>.
once you know document root in your module, add it to request url and
give some unique separator, say, //. adjust modules execution so that
mod_rewrite works after you. Then just do
RewriteRule (.+)//(.+) $2 [E=DOCUMENT_ROOT:$1]
It's only a generic idea and may need to be polished. Btw, i think
PerlPassEnv should work for you, again, just play with modules
execution order, you should reset doc root only after mapping to fs is
done.
îÁ 2002.04.29 20:07 Marten Lehmann ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌ:
> Hello,
>
>> Sorry, i can't check right now what i'm stating, but you can prepent
>> this path to url and move it to DOC_ROOT with rewriterule.
>
> I want to set DOCUMENT_ROOT dynamically, depending on which host is
> called the document path changes. Additionally, for cgi-scripts the
> environment-variable DOCUMENT_ROOT shall be set to this directory.
> How can I do this?
>
> Regards
> Marten Lehmann
>
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Re: mass-hosting and DOCUMENT_ROOT
Posted by Marten Lehmann <le...@variomedia.de>.
Hello,
> Sorry, i can't check right now what i'm stating, but you can prepent
> this path to url and move it to DOC_ROOT with rewriterule.
I want to set DOCUMENT_ROOT dynamically, depending on which host is
called the document path changes. Additionally, for cgi-scripts the
environment-variable DOCUMENT_ROOT shall be set to this directory. How
can I do this?
Regards
Marten Lehmann
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Re: mass-hosting and DOCUMENT_ROOT
Posted by Artiom Morozov <ar...@phreaker.net>.
Sorry, i can't check right now what i'm stating, but you can prepent
this path to url and move it to DOC_ROOT with rewriterule.
îÁ 2002.04.29 19:17 Marten Lehmann ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌ:
> Hello,
>
> as far as I know there are 3 ways to realize mass-hosting with apache
> (host to path translation):
>
> 1. mod_rewrite
> 2. virtualdocumentroot (mod_vhost_alias)
> 3. using a mod_perl-handler for URI-translation
>
> At this time I'm using the third way for my webhosting-system. But
> all ways have one problem: They can't set DOCUMENT_ROOT for each
> host, as it would have been set when the host would appear in
> httpd.conf as virtualhost with documentroot-directive.
> My idea is to write my own apache-module, that does the host to path
> translation and additionally set the DOCUMENT_ROOT variable. But
> before I start, I would like to know, if it is possible to set this
> environment-variable in this phase so it takes effect in the later
> content-processing. I tried to set the variable inside my
> mod_perl-handler, but when the script I called through http was
> executed, the standard-document-root appeared again.
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