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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-27 06:33:50 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-27 06:33:50 +0000 |
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Adding upstream version 2.4.56.upstream/2.4.56
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/docs/manual/rewrite/vhosts.html.en b/docs/manual/rewrite/vhosts.html.en new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a2cbb99 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/manual/rewrite/vhosts.html.en @@ -0,0 +1,228 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><head> +<meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" /> +<!-- + XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX + This file is generated from xml source: DO NOT EDIT + XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX + --> +<title>Dynamic mass virtual hosts with mod_rewrite - Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4</title> +<link href="../style/css/manual.css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" title="Main stylesheet" /> +<link href="../style/css/manual-loose-100pc.css" rel="alternate stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" title="No Sidebar - Default font size" /> +<link href="../style/css/manual-print.css" rel="stylesheet" media="print" type="text/css" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../style/css/prettify.css" /> +<script src="../style/scripts/prettify.min.js" type="text/javascript"> +</script> + +<link href="../images/favicon.ico" rel="shortcut icon" /></head> +<body id="manual-page"><div id="page-header"> +<p class="menu"><a href="../mod/">Modules</a> | <a href="../mod/directives.html">Directives</a> | <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/FAQ">FAQ</a> | <a href="../glossary.html">Glossary</a> | <a href="../sitemap.html">Sitemap</a></p> +<p class="apache">Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4</p> +<img alt="" src="../images/feather.png" /></div> +<div class="up"><a href="./"><img title="<-" alt="<-" src="../images/left.gif" /></a></div> +<div id="path"> +<a href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/">HTTP Server</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/">Documentation</a> > <a href="../">Version 2.4</a> > <a href="./">Rewrite</a></div><div id="page-content"><div id="preamble"><h1>Dynamic mass virtual hosts with mod_rewrite</h1> +<div class="toplang"> +<p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="../en/rewrite/vhosts.html" title="English"> en </a> | +<a href="../fr/rewrite/vhosts.html" hreflang="fr" rel="alternate" title="Français"> fr </a></p> +</div> + + +<p>This document supplements the <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code> +<a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">reference documentation</a>. It describes +how you can use <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code> to create dynamically +configured virtual hosts.</p> + +<div class="warning">mod_rewrite is not the best way to configure +virtual hosts. You should first consider the <a href="../vhosts/mass.html">alternatives</a> before resorting to +mod_rewrite. See also the "<a href="avoid.html#vhosts">how to avoid +mod_rewrite</a> document.</div> + +</div> +<div id="quickview"><a href="https://www.apache.org/foundation/contributing.html" class="badge"><img src="https://www.apache.org/images/SupportApache-small.png" alt="Support Apache!" /></a><ul id="toc"><li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#per-hostname">Virtual Hosts For Arbitrary Hostnames</a></li> +<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#simple.rewrite">Dynamic + Virtual Hosts Using <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code></a></li> +<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#xtra-conf">Using a Separate Virtual Host Configuration File</a></li> +</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><li><a href="#comments_section">Comments</a></li></ul></div> +<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div> +<div class="section"> +<h2><a name="per-hostname" id="per-hostname">Virtual Hosts For Arbitrary Hostnames</a></h2> + + + + <dl> + <dt>Description:</dt> + + <dd> + <p>We want to automatically create a virtual host for every hostname + which resolves in our domain, without having to create + new VirtualHost sections.</p> + + <p>In this recipe, we assume that we'll be using the hostname + <code>www.<strong>SITE</strong>.example.com</code> for each + user, and serve their content out of + <code>/home/<strong>SITE</strong>/www</code>.</p> + </dd> + + <dt>Solution:</dt> + + <dd> + +<pre class="prettyprint lang-config">RewriteEngine on + +RewriteMap lowercase int:tolower + +RewriteCond "${lowercase:%{<strong>HTTP_HOST</strong>}}" "^www\.<strong>([^.]+)</strong>\.example\.com$" +RewriteRule "^(.*)" "/home/<strong>%1</strong>/www$1"</pre> +</dd> + +<dt>Discussion</dt> + <dd> + + <div class="warning">You will need to take care of the DNS + resolution - Apache does + not handle name resolution. You'll need either to create CNAME + records for each hostname, or a DNS wildcard record. Creating DNS + records is beyond the scope of this document.</div> + +<p>The internal <code>tolower</code> RewriteMap directive is used to +ensure that the hostnames being used are all lowercase, so that there is +no ambiguity in the directory structure which must be created.</p> + +<p>Parentheses used in a <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritecond">RewriteCond</a></code> are captured into the +backreferences <code>%1</code>, <code>%2</code>, etc, while parentheses +used in <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewriterule">RewriteRule</a></code> are +captured into the backreferences <code>$1</code>, <code>$2</code>, +etc.</p> + +<p> +As with many techniques discussed in this document, mod_rewrite really +isn't the best way to accomplish this task. You should, instead, +consider using <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_vhost_alias.html">mod_vhost_alias</a></code> instead, as it will much +more gracefully handle anything beyond serving static files, such as any +dynamic content, and Alias resolution. +</p> + </dd> + </dl> + +</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div> +<div class="section"> +<h2><a name="simple.rewrite" id="simple.rewrite">Dynamic + Virtual Hosts Using <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code></a></h2> + + <p>This extract from <code>httpd.conf</code> does the same + thing as <a href="#per-hostname">the first example</a>. The first + half is very similar to the corresponding part above, except for + some changes, required for backward compatibility and to make the + <code>mod_rewrite</code> part work properly; the second half + configures <code>mod_rewrite</code> to do the actual work.</p> + + <p>Because <code>mod_rewrite</code> runs before other URI translation + modules (e.g., <code>mod_alias</code>), <code>mod_rewrite</code> must + be told to explicitly ignore any URLs that would have been handled + by those modules. And, because these rules would otherwise bypass + any <code>ScriptAlias</code> directives, we must have + <code>mod_rewrite</code> explicitly enact those mappings.</p> + +<pre class="prettyprint lang-config"># get the server name from the Host: header +UseCanonicalName Off + +# splittable logs +LogFormat "%{Host}i %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %s %b" vcommon +CustomLog "logs/access_log" vcommon + +<Directory "/www/hosts"> + # ExecCGI is needed here because we can't force + # CGI execution in the way that ScriptAlias does + Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI +</Directory> + +RewriteEngine On + +# a ServerName derived from a Host: header may be any case at all +RewriteMap lowercase int:tolower + +## deal with normal documents first: +# allow Alias "/icons/" to work - repeat for other aliases +RewriteCond "%{REQUEST_URI}" "!^/icons/" +# allow CGIs to work +RewriteCond "%{REQUEST_URI}" "!^/cgi-bin/" +# do the magic +RewriteRule "^/(.*)$" "/www/hosts/${lowercase:%{SERVER_NAME}}/docs/$1" + +## and now deal with CGIs - we have to force a handler +RewriteCond "%{REQUEST_URI}" "^/cgi-bin/" +RewriteRule "^/(.*)$" "/www/hosts/${lowercase:%{SERVER_NAME}}/cgi-bin/$1" [H=cgi-script]</pre> + + +</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div> +<div class="section"> +<h2><a name="xtra-conf" id="xtra-conf">Using a Separate Virtual Host Configuration File</a></h2> + + <p>This arrangement uses more advanced <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code> + features to work out the translation from virtual host to document + root, from a separate configuration file. This provides more + flexibility, but requires more complicated configuration.</p> + + <p>The <code>vhost.map</code> file should look something like + this:</p> + +<div class="example"><p><code> +customer-1.example.com /www/customers/1<br /> +customer-2.example.com /www/customers/2<br /> +# ...<br /> +customer-N.example.com /www/customers/N<br /> +</code></p></div> + + <p>The <code>httpd.conf</code> should contain the following:</p> + +<pre class="prettyprint lang-config">RewriteEngine on + +RewriteMap lowercase int:tolower + +# define the map file +RewriteMap vhost "txt:/www/conf/vhost.map" + +# deal with aliases as above +RewriteCond "%{REQUEST_URI}" "!^/icons/" +RewriteCond "%{REQUEST_URI}" "!^/cgi-bin/" +RewriteCond "${lowercase:%{SERVER_NAME}}" "^(.+)$" +# this does the file-based remap +RewriteCond "${vhost:%1}" "^(/.*)$" +RewriteRule "^/(.*)$" "%1/docs/$1" + +RewriteCond "%{REQUEST_URI}" "^/cgi-bin/" +RewriteCond "${lowercase:%{SERVER_NAME}}" "^(.+)$" +RewriteCond "${vhost:%1}" "^(/.*)$" +RewriteRule "^/cgi-bin/(.*)$" "%1/cgi-bin/$1" [H=cgi-script]</pre> + + +</div></div> +<div class="bottomlang"> +<p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="../en/rewrite/vhosts.html" title="English"> en </a> | +<a href="../fr/rewrite/vhosts.html" hreflang="fr" rel="alternate" title="Français"> fr </a></p> +</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img src="../images/up.gif" alt="top" /></a></div><div class="section"><h2><a id="comments_section" name="comments_section">Comments</a></h2><div class="warning"><strong>Notice:</strong><br />This is not a Q&A section. 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