Re: Public Vs. Development (Private) URL to Document: Not Same Document Roots For Absolute URLs of Supporting Documents

[Yehuda Katz <yehuda@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I usually create vhosts for development for this reason.

I would add a vhost for something like opinion.localhost (and add that to your hosts file).

The only other option would be using some type of CMS that is aware of the multiple access paths.

- Y

On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 8:12 AM, Steve Penner <stevepenner1960@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Apache/2.4.3 (Win32) OpenSSL/0.9.8x PHP/5.4.8

The (Windows) filesystem for my server this Windows path:

     Z:\service.web.opinions

The tree under Z:\service.web.opinions is:

Z:\service.web.opinions
   * developing
   * _content
      ++ opinionDocs.js
      ** culture
        +++ elections.html
      ** politics
      ** groups

Note that
   "**" is a directory/folder within the directory/folder "_content"
   "++" is an file in the directory "_content"
   "+++" is a file in the directory "culture"

Finally two more very important bits of information as to the server config:

In my httpd.conf file, I have

     Alias /opinion    "Z:/service.web.opinions/_content"

In my httpd-vhosts.conf file, I have:

<VirtualHost *:80 *:8080 *:8008>
    ServerAdmin bigopinions@xxxxxxxxx
    DocumentRoot "Z:/service.web.opinions/_content"
    ServerName truth-and-opinion.org
    ServerAlias www.truth-and-opinion.org
    ErrorLog "|\"C:/_Windows Uninstalled Applications/Apache24/bin/rotatelogs.exe\" \"D:/WebServerConfig/httpd/logs/truth-and-opinion.org-error%Y%b%d.log\" 7776000"
    CustomLog "|bin/rotatelogs.exe D:/WebServerConfig/httpd/logs/truth-and-opinion.org-access%Y%b%d.log 5M" combined env=!image-request
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
</VirtualHost>

In this configuration, I have an HTML document "elections.html" in the Windows path Z:\service.web.opinions\_content\culture\elections.html.
This is accessed by the public as "http://my.opinions.org/culture/elections.html"

HERE IS THE PROBLEM

I personally/privately (as a developer?) want to access the site content using a localhost or 127.0.0.1 url, namely "http://localhost/opinion/"

The document "elections.html" contains the HTML markup:

    <script type="text/_javascript_" src="">

That _javascript_ file is in the path  "Z:\service.web.opinions\_content\opinionDocs.js"

The public access is okay, because the DocumentRoot for the public access "Z:\service.web.opinions\_content\"  and so the "src" attribute points to the root "/" where opinion docs is located.

But when I use "http://localhost/opinion/culture/elections.html" (or "http://127.0.0.1/opinion/culture/elections.html",  I will get a 404 Not Found error.   The error will be that "http://localhost/opinionDocs.js" (or "http://127.0.0.1/opinionDocs.js") was not found.

Obviously the "Alias" feature is the wrong feature to use, and it should probably be another <VirtualHost> directive, right?