Thanks so much for your input. I'll experiment with your ideas. -km Eike Frost wrote: > Hello, > > On Saturday 05 August 2006 19:31, kurt miller wrote: > >> Thusfar, I am able to successfully map to the local >> development sites using virtual hosting and my hosts file. The problem I >> am struggling with is how to map the www.xxx.dynalias.com to more >> than one site. Is this even possible? As in www.xxx.dynalias.com/site1 or >> www.xxx.dynalias.com/site2 etc. >> > > That depends, really. You can't delegate subdirectories within a domain to > different vhosts via ServerName or ServerAlias; It's simply not made for > that. What you could do is use yyy.xxx.dynalias.com for client yyy, > zzz.xxx.dynalias.com for client zzz, etc however, if your dynamic DNS > provider assigns a wildcard to your host. > If you absolutely want http://www.xxx.dynalias.com/yyy/ to work, you can > achieve that in various ways; one of them would be to define an Alias or > ScriptAlias for /yyy to the directory you run site yyy out of. If you do not > use further configuration in the vhost context for the local yyy, that would > work. If you do, however, configure different local vhosts differently (or > want logging in separate files), you could use mod_proxy to forward requests > sent to /yyy/ to yyy.local transparently using mod_rewrite : > > RewriteRule ^/yyy/(.*)$ http://yyy.local/$1 [P] > > inside the public-facing vhost would transparently proxy requests to /yyy/* to > your local vhost (assuming apache on that machine can locally resolve the > local hostname). You may have to twiddle with your code a bit so that it can > handle being invoked via an URL that it does not know about, though, and logs > will include 127.0.0.1/localhost as the remote ip/host. It's also not the > most efficient solution, but from your comments I assume this is not a > production environment, anyway. > > --Eike > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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