I'm back again and I'm real close to finishing up what I have started here. I have implemented the following, while still keeping virtualdocumentroot in place and it seems to work. # ti_ is a login prefix RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^users.domain.tld$ [NC] RewriteRule ^/([^\/]+)(.*)$ /exports/home/domain.tld/users/ti_$1$2 [L] My question now is one little thing that I forgot. I have horde/imp in place on that server and the users will still need to access this using the alias that I have already put in place some time ago. The rule above will basically cancel that alias out as it will try to rewrite it to a different directory. It's a shared install. What would the rewrite condition look like in order to do the above yet skip /horde and /mail? > -----Original Message----- > From: Gary W. Smith [mailto:gary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 9:28 AM > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: [users@httpd] rewrite and virtualdocumentroot question > > First I'd like to say thanks for responding. > > I understand most of what you kicked out in there. With respect to mod > rewrite triggering before vhost_alias, I was wondering if it's possible to > have mod rewrite just handle the one domain (by a given domain name). > That is, can you limit the rewrite condition to just one domain? I don't > know much about regexp so please forgive me on this... > > RewriteMap lowercase int:tolower > RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$ > RewriteCond ${lowercase:%{HTTP_HOST}|NONE} > ^http://www.averyparticularserver.com$ > RewriteCond /exports/home/%2.%3/users/domain_$1 -d > RewriteRule ^/([^\/]+)(.*)$ /exports/home/%2.%3/users/domain_$1$2 [L] > > If we limited it to just the one domain, wouldn't virtual still work as > expected? > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Axel-Stéphane SMORGRAV [mailto:Axel- > > Stephane.SMORGRAV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 5:20 AM > > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: RE: [users@httpd] rewrite and virtualdocumentroot question > > > > I am afraid that mod_rewrite will process the request *before* > > mod_vhost_alias. Therefore, in order to achieve what you want, I think > you > > will need to abandon mod_vhost_alias and rely solely on mod_rewrite. > > > > For the user directories, maybe: > > > > RewriteMap lowercase int:tolower > > > > RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$ > > RewriteCond ${lowercase:%{HTTP_HOST}|NONE} ^(.*)\.([^.]+)\.([^.]+)$ > > RewriteCond /exports/home/%2.%3/users/domain_$1 -d > > RewriteRule ^/([^\/]+)(.*)$ /exports/home/%2.%3/users/domain_$1$2 [L] > > > > In the last RewriteCond we test whether a directory exists under > > /exports/home/domain.tld/ named the same as the first component of the > > requested URL path. > > > > I think the following should be equivalent to "VirtualDocumentRoot > > /exports/home/%-2.0.%-1/virtualdomains/%0": > > > > RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$ > > RewriteCond ${lowercase:%{HTTP_HOST}|NONE} ^(.*)\.([^.]+)\.([^.]+)$ > > RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /exports/home/%2.%3/virtualdomains/%1.%2.%3$1 > > > > Wrt the ScriptAlias, I thinks you may resolve it using a combination of > > DirectoryMatch, add-handler and Options. > > > > For the user directories, you may want to disable mod_userdir and > > incorporate the ~ syntax in the above rewrite rule. > > > > Try the above rules, set "RewriteLogLevel 3", set the RewriteLog to an > > appropriate value and check out the resulting path names. > > > > -ascs > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > > From: Gary W. Smith [mailto:gary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 8:41 PM > > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: [users@httpd] rewrite and virtualdocumentroot question > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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