[users@httpd] DocumentRoot

[bruce <be...@earthlink.net>]

Hi...

Somewhat new to Apache.... is it possible to have multiple DocumentRoot
directives within the Apache httpd.conf file. I'm pretty sure it should be..
but I haven't been able to find any examples as to how the config file
should be set up to accomplish this... A google search hasn't really shown
me how...

Help/pointers/assistance would be appreciated....

Thanks

Bruce Douglas
bedouglas@earthlink.net


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Re: [users@httpd] DocumentRoot

[Brian Richardson <br...@cubik.ca>]

On July 26, 2003 14:48, bruce wrote:
> Hi...
>
> Somewhat new to Apache.... is it possible to have multiple DocumentRoot
> directives within the Apache httpd.conf file. I'm pretty sure it should
> be.. but I haven't been able to find any examples as to how the config file
> should be set up to accomplish this... A google search hasn't really shown
> me how...

You are either talking about VirtualHosts, or Aliases. Here is the way to set 
up a few different things:

1) You want to have different document roots for different server names (ie. 
www.company1.com and www.company2.com both resolve to the same web server, 
and you'd like to serve up different documents to them:

NameVirtualHost *
<VirtualHost _default_:*>
    ServerName www.company1.com
    ServerAdmin webmaster@company1.com
    DocumentRoot "/var/www/www.company1.com/htdocs"
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *>
    ServerName www.company2.com
    ServerAdmin webmaster@company2.com
    DocumentRoot "/var/www/www.company2.com/htdocs"
</VirtualHost>

2) You want to put documents from different parts of the filesystem into 
virtual directories (ie. Maybe you have some documentation that resides in 
/usr/share/doc that you'd like to have available through your webserver)

Alias /program-doc/ /usr/share/doc/program/html

Or, you could simply symlink it into your htdocs directory, like this:

% cd /var/www/htdocs
% ln -s /usr/share/doc/program/html program-doc

And include the following directive:

<Directory /var/www/htdocs>
    Options +FollowSymLinks
</Directory>

HTH,
Brian

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