mod_rewrite in per-server context

[GetFree]

On my local machine (Win32) I wanted to add a sub domain. so I put
this on the .htaccess of my document-root:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^subdomain\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ subdomain/$1

which worked fine. Every request to the subdomain is rewrited to the
directory "subdomain".

But now I want to do that in per-server context, inside a VirtualHost
directive, but it doesn't work.
I read the rewrite log and the directive never execute. It's like it
wasn't even there.

Any idea what the problem could be?

Thanks.

[Izzy]

You only need create another virtual host container for the subdomain in the httpd-vhost.conf file.

Example:
You have a container set up for the main domain site.com
Make sure that works just fine.

Then create another container for subdomain.site.com just under the main container to keep it tidy.

This will of course point to the directory subdomain in the main domain directory of site.com.

Here is an example of what I mean:

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<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName site.com
<Directory "C:/xampp/home/site" >
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/home/site"
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "C:/xampp/home/site/cgi-bin/"
ServerAdmin izzy@site.com
CustomLog domlogs/siteaccess.log combined
ErrorLog domlogs/siteerror.log
LogLevel error
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName subdomain.site.com
<Directory "C:/xampp/home/site/subdomain" >
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/home/site/subdomain"
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "C:/xampp/home/site/subdomain/cgi-bin/"
ServerAdmin izzy@site.com
CustomLog domlogs/subdomainaccess.log combined
ErrorLog domlogs/subdomainerror.log
LogLevel error
</VirtualHost>

This method is useful because it gives you full control over the server's configuration of the subdomain just like you have over the main domain.

HTH

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[GetFree]

That doesn't serve to my particular purpose.
mod_vhost_alias is not available for me either.

I need the subdomain to be just the same host as the main domain but with a special treatment.

I just want to know how can this be done inside a VirtualHost directive.

I tried this:

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<VirtualHost *:80>
        . . . .
        . . . .

        RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^subdomain\.
        RewriteRule ^(.*)$ subdomain/$1

</VirtualHost>

I get it to work using .htaccess files. And in the rewrite log I see the steps in the rewriting process.
But when I move the directives to the VirtualHost context, the rewrite log shows nothing about it (it doesn't even log that the rule doesn't match).
It's like apache doesn't see the rewriting directives in the VirtualHost.

[Wiedmann]

I tried this:

I don't see a:

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RewriteEngine on

It's like apache doesn't see the rewriting directives in the VirtualHost.

Maybe the rewrite directives are in the wrong vhost.

[GetFree]

I don't see a:

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RewriteEngine on

!@#$%!!!
How could I be so blind.

I'm gonna try it right now.