[users@httpd] rewrite/url munging question

[Nathan Ollerenshaw <na...@valuecommerce.ne.jp>]

Hi there,

I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas on the following;

I need to be able to take a url like

   http://foo.bar.com/customers-site.com/...

and have the server rewrite internally to

   http://customers-site.com/...

(The reason for this is that when a customer creates an account on our 
system, we want them to be able to 'see' a version of their site right 
away, without waiting for DNS to work)

I've thought of a few ways, but they all seem rather complex or too 
heavy.

One way, the simplest, was to simply stick an Alias for each site in 
the VirtualHost for each customer. But, that seems messy.

Another way I thought would be to use mod_rewrite, however I think to 
do this, I will need mod_proxy installed.

I've tried a few things with mod_rewrite, but they don't work for 
various reasons.

Anyone done this and able to share their solution? Or at least, an idea 
of what I could do.

Regards,

Nathan.

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Re: [users@httpd] rewrite/url munging question

[Zac Stevens <zt...@cryptocracy.com>]

Hi Nathan,

On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 06:24:34PM +0900, Nathan Ollerenshaw wrote:
>    http://foo.bar.com/customers-site.com/...
> 
> and have the server rewrite internally to
> 
>    http://customers-site.com/...
> 
> (The reason for this is that when a customer creates an account on our 
> system, we want them to be able to 'see' a version of their site right 
> away, without waiting for DNS to work)

What you've described is, more or less, HTTP/1.0 - you'd like for things to
work without supplying the "correct" Host: header.  As a result, you can
get away without avoiding the wheel on this one.  Have a look at the
ServerPath directive, and I'd suggest reading the following discussion of
how VHost matching works in Apache:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/vhosts/details.html

Cheers,


Zac

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