I have the following requirements for a site I'm building: - For bureaucratic reasons, I have only one UNIX account, only one subdomain, and no access to httpd.conf itself. (That may change, so if you can think of a solution that would otherwise work, please post it!) - I wish to have "system root" (my term) subdirectories /prod, /staging, and /dev to hold the production site, ready-for-production, and development versions of the site. - The main content for each site is currently being generated by MovableType, and will be stored in $SYSTEM_ROOT/mt-pages. (I don't like having subsystem-specific files in the root directory.) - Each site also uses other subsystems like vBulletin, a survey script, etc., which are stored in $SYSTEM_ROOT/forum, $SYSTEM_ROOT/survey, etc. - Requests for www.example.com/file.ext should be rewritten to www.mysite.com/prod/file.ext. - Requests for any www.example.com/$SYSTEM_ROOT/file.ext should be rewritten to $SYSTEM_ROOT/mt-pages/file.ext. - BUT requests for www.example.com/$SYSTEM_ROOT/subdir/file.ext should remain unchanged. So far, so good. I have RewriteRules in an .htaccess in ServerRoot to point it to prod, and similar rules in each $SYSTEM_ROOT dir to point into mt-pages for any filename with a dot in it. (I'm OK limiting myself to directories without dots.) The problem, of course, is that if I request http://www.example.com/index.html, which gets rewritten to http://www.example.com/prod/mt-pages/index.html, any relative links to, say, "images/logo.gif" will look for /images/logo.gif, not /prod/mt- pages/images/logo.gif. I can solve this by adding a BASE tag to each page, or by using absolute URLs, but that kills the point of having these mirror-image test systems. I could also solve it by explicitly checking for each known subsystem in the .htaccess file, rather than assuming any directory to be a top-level subsystem, but I'd prefer to avoid that. Is there some solution with mod_rewrite, mod_alias, or something else that will let me rewrite both URLs and the content base? This seems like it ought to be a common problem. -- Jay Levitt | Wellesley, MA | I feel calm. I feel ready. I can only Faster: jay at jay dot fm | conclude that's because I don't have a http://www.jay.fm | full grasp of the situation. - Mark Adler --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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