Redirecting urls

[aristos]

Hell, folks. I've been looking for an answer to this, and I think that mod_rewrite has what I need, but I'm damned if I can make it work. If mod_rewrite is *not* the answer, can someone please point me in the "write" direction (ok, bad pun...)

I have a website,

http://www.site.com,

and the home directory is /home/site/public_html/
I have a test site, test.site.com, and the home directory is /home/site_test/public_html/

I only have one IP for the whole of

http://www.site.com,

so I want people to be able to type (from the outside of our network)

http://www.site.com/test

and have the server pull up the pages in /home/site_test/public_html

I have a gut feeling that this can be done, but I am finished pulling hair and asking you fine folks for an answer.

recap: type

http://www.site.com/test

into the browser, the web server serves pages from (internal) /home/site_test/public_html instead of /home/site/public_html

Possible? Hm???

Thanks, all, inadvance.

Mike

Mike
<this space for rent>

 

[danielhozac]

A simple [tt]Alias[/tt] should do what you want:
[tt]Alias /test /home/site_test/public_html[/tt]

//Daniel

 

[aristos]

Well, I broke down and created a virtual host by port, so the user goes to port 8080 and it loads the test version of the site. Not as elegant as I wanted (which was to go to test.site.com) but it works.

Thanks for the help

Mike
<this space for rent>

 

[tarn]

Ok I've sorted it ... and tested it on dev machine here.

1) Create your test directory cd /home; mkdir -p site_test/public_html; chmod/chown as necessary
2) place a index .html document there to test with
3) vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and add the Alias as I did below the icons alias.


# Note that if you include a trailing / on fakename then the server will
# require it to be present in the URL. So &quot;/icons&quot; isn't aliased in this
# example, only &quot;/icons/&quot;..
#
Alias /icons/ &quot;/var/

http://www/icons/&quot;

<Directory &quot;/var/

http://www/icons&quot;>

Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

Alias /test/ &quot;/home/site_test/public_html/&quot;

<Directory &quot;/home/site_test/public_html&quot;>
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>


4) restart httpd with: service httpd restart
and go to

http://localhost/test/

Or use your real url/test/

Should work fine ?

Good luck
Laurie.

 

[aristos]

Thanks, Laurie. I'll check it out.

Mike
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