No, I assure you, ,mod_rewrite is not needed here. To enforce a canonical hostname, use the Redirect directive and separate vhost. To have all requests handled by a php routing script, use FallbackResource /path/to/file.php Lastly, to redirect to https://, use Redirect from a :80 vhost. On 11/06/19 01:24 PM, Jim Weill wrote: > The sites I am trying to model are drupal-based. We aren't dealing with > plain static HTML or PHP sites. We have the main server, which this > test server is trying to mirror, and a secondary project server which > exists to give project people limited root access to update their own > code. The secondary server also has drupal-based sites, but the > redirections I describe in the issue work on the secondary server. They > were never implemented in any way on the main production server. If I > put wiki2.example.com <http://wiki2.example.com>, it should return > wiki2.example.com/wiki2 <http://wiki2.example.com/wiki2>. And so if I > have site1, wiki2, and www on the main server, I can go to > wiki2.example.com/www <http://wiki2.example.com/www> and get the main > www site, when we want the main site to always turn up > www.example.com/www <http://www.example.com/www>. > > Is this not what mod_rewrite is meant to solve? I fully admit I am not > well-versed in apache, my prior work was mainly Windows Server and > Exchange, but I am trying to learn this stuff based on what we had set > up long before I came here. > > jim > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 5:18 AM Frank <thumbs@xxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:thumbs@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > You are also grossly abusing mod_rewrite for this. It isn't needed > at all. > > Use FallbackResource, Redirect, and separate vhosts, as Igor mentioned. > > On 11/06/19 01:33 AM, Igor Cicimov wrote: > > Since you already have two separate domains why not use virtual hosts > > each with it's own document root? > > > > IC > > > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2019, 9:18 AM Jim Weill <moondog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:moondog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > <mailto:moondog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:moondog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>> wrote: > > > > We have a test server, with test sites that are in two different > > branches of development, but essentially the same base content. > > They live at /x/y/z/testsite and /x/y/z/test-site. We have other > > sites such as wikis and one-offs which need to stay online on our > > production server, and I have been testing using rewrites to force > > the URL to conform to the directory path that is defined in the > > .conf file. > > > > So for example, in the testsite.conf file, I have the following: > > RewriteEngine On > > RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com > <http://www.example.com> <http://www.example.com>$ [NC] > > RewriteRule ^/$ https://testsite.example.com/testsite/ [L,R] > > > > alias /testsite "/x/y/z/testsite" > > <Directory "/x/y/z/testsite"> > > Require all granted > > RewriteEngine On > > RewriteBase /testsite > > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f > > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d > > RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA] > > RewriteCond %{HTTPS} Off > > RewriteRule ^(.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} > > RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !testsite.example.com > <http://testsite.example.com> > > <http://testsite.example.com> > > RewriteRule ^.*$ https://testsite.example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R] > > </Directory> > > > > The test-site.conf file is the exact same except for adding the > > hypen in the names. > > > > We also have the following in ssl.conf for these: > > RewriteRule ^(.*)/testsite$ $1/testsite/ [R,NC] > > RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} testsite\.example\.com > > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/testsite(.*) > > RewriteRule (.*) > > https://testsite.example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R] > > RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} testsite.example.com > <http://testsite.example.com> > > <http://testsite.example.com> > > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$ > > RewriteRule (.*) > > https://testsite.example.com/testsite/ [R] > > > > RewriteRule ^(.*)/test-site$ $1/test-site/ [R,NC] > > RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} test-site\.example\.com > > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/test-site(.*) > > RewriteRule (.*) > > https://test-site.example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R] > > RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} test-site.example.com > <http://test-site.example.com> > > <http://test-site.example.com> > > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$ > > RewriteRule (.*) > > https://test-site.example.com/test-site [R] > > > > > > If I leave this as shown, and restart the service, neither page > > loads at all. If I comment out the three lines after "RewriteRule > > ^(.*)/testsite$" and "RewriteRule ^(.*)/test-site$" respectively, > > the sites load properly. We have this exact set of rewrites on > > ssl.conf for all sites on the production server and it > rewrites the > > URL properly. So I'm not sure where it's failing on the test > site. > > Logs are set to trace8 on the test server and I'm not getting > > anything that helps tells me where the problem is. > > > > > > jim > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx