Forum OpenACS Q&A: Virtual Hosts for the same "domain name"

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1: Virtual Hosts for the same "domain name"
Posted by Luis Armando Arriola on 12/15/02 06:53 AM

I am using OACS, with Redhat 7.2.
I use Apache 1.3.27, I have configured Apache to run different sites with the same ip address, here is the configuration of my httpd.conf file for the site www.foo.net:

<VirtualHost 1.2.3.4>
  ServerAdmin webmaster@foo.net
  ServerName foo.net
  ServerAlias www.foo.net
  ProxyPass / http://1.2.3.4:17000/
  ProxyPassReverse / http://1.2.3.4:17000/
  ErrorLog logs/foo.net-error_log
  CustomLog logs/foo.net-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

Now I need to have different sites running under the same "domain name" like for example:
www.foo.net/site1
www.foo.net/site2
www.foo.net/site3

What I did was just to modify the configuration of the httpd.conf file, to run site1 that is running on port 18000, but it doesn't work.
Here is how I did it:

<VirtualHost 1.2.3.4>
  ServerAdmin webmaster-site1@foo.net
  ServerName foo.net/site1/
  ServerAlias www.foo.net/site1/
  ProxyPass / http://1.2.3.4:18000/
  ProxyPassReverse / http://1.2.3.4:18000/
  ErrorLog logs/site1-foo.net-error_log
  CustomLog logs/site1-foo.net-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

This is not working and I don't know where the problem is. Does anyone have any idea?


Thanks.
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2: Re: Virtual Hosts for the same "domain name" (response to 1)
Posted by Patrick Giagnocavo on 12/15/02 07:51 AM
Close, but actually, it is easier than what you have setup.

Keep the original entry, but add additional ProxyPass directives to cover the directories you care about, e.g.

ProxyPass /site1 http://1.2.3.4:18000/
ProxyPass /site2 http://1.2.3.4:19000/
ProxyPass /site3 http://1.2.3.4:20000/

and the proper Reverse entries as well.

However, depending on how many of these redirects there are, you may want to use the mod_rewrite module, or just install a number of redirects.

Yet another way is to add a number of DNS entries such as site1.foo.net, site2.foo.net etc. and redirect all requests to those hostnames.  Then create a vhost setup for each site.