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- <modulesynopsis metafile="mod_vhost_alias.xml.meta">
-
- <name>mod_vhost_alias</name>
- <description>Provides for dynamically configured mass virtual
- hosting</description>
- <status>Extension</status>
- <sourcefile>mod_vhost_alias.c</sourcefile>
- <identifier>vhost_alias_module</identifier>
-
- <summary>
- <p>This module creates dynamically configured virtual hosts, by
- allowing the IP address and/or the <code>Host:</code> header of
- the HTTP request to be used as part of the pathname to
- determine what files to serve. This allows for easy use of a
- huge number of virtual hosts with similar configurations.</p>
-
- <note><title>Note</title>
- <p>If <module>mod_alias</module> or <module>mod_userdir</module> are
- used for translating URIs to filenames, they will override the
- directives of <module>mod_vhost_alias</module> described below. For
- example, the following configuration will map <code>
- /cgi-bin/script.pl</code> to <code>
- /usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin/script.pl</code> in all cases:</p>
-
- <example>
- ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin/<br />
- VirtualScriptAlias /never/found/%0/cgi-bin/
- </example>
- </note>
- </summary>
-
- <seealso><directive module="core">UseCanonicalName</directive></seealso>
- <seealso><a href="../vhosts/mass.html">Dynamically configured mass
- virtual hosting</a></seealso>
-
- <section id="interpol">
- <title>Directory Name Interpolation</title>
-
- <p>All the directives in this module interpolate a string into
- a pathname. The interpolated string (henceforth called the
- "name") may be either the server name (see the <directive
- module="core">UseCanonicalName</directive>
- directive for details on how this is determined) or the IP
- address of the virtual host on the server in dotted-quad
- format. The interpolation is controlled by specifiers inspired
- by <code>printf</code> which have a number of formats:</p>
-
- <table>
- <columnspec><column width=".2"/><column width=".6"/></columnspec>
- <tr><td><code>%%</code></td>
- <td>insert a <code>%</code></td></tr>
-
- <tr><td><code>%p</code></td>
- <td>insert the port number of the virtual host</td></tr>
-
- <tr><td><code>%N.M</code></td>
- <td>insert (part of) the name</td></tr>
-
- </table>
-
- <p><code>N</code> and <code>M</code> are used to specify
- substrings of the name. <code>N</code> selects from the
- dot-separated components of the name, and <code>M</code>
- selects characters within whatever <code>N</code> has selected.
- <code>M</code> is optional and defaults to zero if it isn't
- present; the dot must be present if and only if <code>M</code>
- is present. The interpretation is as follows:</p>
-
- <table>
- <columnspec><column width=".1"/><column width=".4"/></columnspec>
- <tr><td><code>0</code></td>
- <td>the whole name</td></tr>
-
- <tr><td><code>1</code></td>
- <td>the first part</td></tr>
-
- <tr><td><code>2</code></td>
- <td>the second part</td></tr>
-
- <tr><td><code>-1</code></td>
- <td>the last part</td></tr>
-
- <tr><td><code>-2</code></td>
- <td>the penultimate part</td></tr>
-
- <tr><td><code>2+</code></td>
- <td>the second and all subsequent parts</td></tr>
-
- <tr><td><code>-2+</code></td>
- <td>the penultimate and all preceding parts</td></tr>
-
- <tr><td><code>1+</code> and <code>-1+</code></td>
- <td>the same as <code>0</code></td></tr>
- </table>
-
- <p>If <code>N</code> or <code>M</code> is greater than the number
- of parts available a single underscore is interpolated. </p>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="examples">
- <title>Examples</title>
-
- <p>For simple name-based virtual hosts you might use the
- following directives in your server configuration file:</p>
-
- <example>
- UseCanonicalName Off<br />
- VirtualDocumentRoot /usr/local/apache/vhosts/%0
- </example>
-
- <p>A request for
- <code>http://www.example.com/directory/file.html</code> will be
- satisfied by the file
- <code>/usr/local/apache/vhosts/www.example.com/directory/file.html</code>.
- </p>
-
- <p>For a very large number of virtual hosts it is a good idea
- to arrange the files to reduce the size of the
- <code>vhosts</code> directory. To do this you might use the
- following in your configuration file:</p>
-
- <example>
- UseCanonicalName Off<br />
- VirtualDocumentRoot /usr/local/apache/vhosts/%3+/%2.1/%2.2/%2.3/%2
- </example>
-
- <p>A request for
- <code>http://www.domain.example.com/directory/file.html</code>
- will be satisfied by the file
- <code>/usr/local/apache/vhosts/example.com/d/o/m/domain/directory/file.html</code>.</p>
-
- <p>A more even spread of files can be achieved by hashing from the
- end of the name, for example: </p>
-
- <example>
- VirtualDocumentRoot /usr/local/apache/vhosts/%3+/%2.-1/%2.-2/%2.-3/%2
- </example>
-
- <p>The example request would come from
- <code>/usr/local/apache/vhosts/example.com/n/i/a/domain/directory/file.html</code>.</p>
-
- <p>Alternatively you might use: </p>
-
- <example>
- VirtualDocumentRoot /usr/local/apache/vhosts/%3+/%2.1/%2.2/%2.3/%2.4+
- </example>
-
- <p>The example request would come from
- <code>/usr/local/apache/vhosts/example.com/d/o/m/ain/directory/file.html</code>.</p>
-
- <p>For IP-based virtual hosting you might use the following in
- your configuration file:</p>
-
- <example>
- UseCanonicalName DNS<br />
- VirtualDocumentRootIP /usr/local/apache/vhosts/%1/%2/%3/%4/docs<br />
- VirtualScriptAliasIP /usr/local/apache/vhosts/%1/%2/%3/%4/cgi-bin
- </example>
-
- <p>A request for
- <code>http://www.domain.example.com/directory/file.html</code>
- would be satisfied by the file
- <code>/usr/local/apache/vhosts/10/20/30/40/docs/directory/file.html</code>
- if the IP address of <code>www.domain.example.com</code> were
- 10.20.30.40. A request for
- <code>http://www.domain.example.com/cgi-bin/script.pl</code> would
- be satisfied by executing the program
- <code>/usr/local/apache/vhosts/10/20/30/40/cgi-bin/script.pl</code>.</p>
-
- <p>If you want to include the <code>.</code> character in a
- <code>VirtualDocumentRoot</code> directive, but it clashes with
- a <code>%</code> directive, you can work around the problem in
- the following way:</p>
-
- <example>
- VirtualDocumentRoot /usr/local/apache/vhosts/%2.0.%3.0
- </example>
-
- <p>A request for
- <code>http://www.domain.example.com/directory/file.html</code>
- will be satisfied by the file
- <code>/usr/local/apache/vhosts/domain.example/directory/file.html</code>.</p>
-
- <p>The <directive module="mod_log_config">LogFormat</directive>
- directives <code>%V</code> and <code>%A</code> are useful
- in conjunction with this module.</p>
- </section>
-
- <directivesynopsis>
- <name>VirtualDocumentRoot</name>
- <description>Dynamically configure the location of the document root
- for a given virtual host</description>
- <syntax>VirtualDocumentRoot <em>interpolated-directory</em>|none</syntax>
- <default>VirtualDocumentRoot none</default>
- <contextlist>
- <context>server config</context>
- <context>virtual host</context>
- </contextlist>
-
- <usage>
-
- <p>The <directive>VirtualDocumentRoot</directive> directive allows you to
- determine where Apache will find your documents based on the
- value of the server name. The result of expanding
- <em>interpolated-directory</em> is used as the root of the
- document tree in a similar manner to the <directive
- module="core">DocumentRoot</directive> directive's argument.
- If <em>interpolated-directory</em> is <code>none</code> then
- <directive>VirtualDocumentRoot</directive> is turned off. This directive
- cannot be used in the same context as <directive
- module="mod_vhost_alias">VirtualDocumentRootIP</directive>.</p>
-
- </usage>
- </directivesynopsis>
-
- <directivesynopsis>
- <name>VirtualDocumentRootIP</name>
- <description>Dynamically configure the location of the document root
- for a given virtual host</description>
- <syntax>VirtualDocumentRootIP <em>interpolated-directory</em>|none</syntax>
- <default>VirtualDocumentRootIP none</default>
- <contextlist>
- <context>server config</context>
- <context>virtual host</context>
- </contextlist>
-
- <usage>
-
- <p>The <directive>VirtualDocumentRootIP</directive> directive is like the
- <directive module="mod_vhost_alias">VirtualDocumentRoot</directive>
- directive, except that it uses the IP address of the server end
- of the connection for directory interpolation instead of the server
- name.</p>
- </usage>
- </directivesynopsis>
-
- <directivesynopsis>
- <name>VirtualScriptAlias</name>
- <description>Dynamically configure the location of the CGI directory for
- a given virtual host</description>
- <syntax>VirtualScriptAlias <em>interpolated-directory</em>|none</syntax>
- <default>VirtualScriptAlias none</default>
- <contextlist>
- <context>server config</context>
- <context>virtual host</context>
- </contextlist>
-
- <usage>
-
- <p>The <directive>VirtualScriptAlias</directive> directive allows you to
- determine where Apache will find CGI scripts in a similar
- manner to <directive module="mod_vhost_alias"
- >VirtualDocumentRoot</directive> does for other documents. It matches
- requests for URIs starting <code>/cgi-bin/</code>, much like <directive
- module="mod_alias">ScriptAlias</directive>
- <code>/cgi-bin/</code> would.</p>
-
- </usage>
- </directivesynopsis>
-
- <directivesynopsis>
- <name>VirtualScriptAliasIP</name>
- <description>Dynamically configure the location of the cgi directory for
- a given virtual host</description>
- <syntax>VirtualScriptAliasIP <em>interpolated-directory</em>|none</syntax>
- <default>VirtualScriptAliasIP none</default>
- <contextlist>
- <context>server config</context>
- <context>virtual host</context>
- </contextlist>
-
- <usage>
-
- <p>The <directive>VirtualScriptAliasIP</directive> directive is like the
- <directive module="mod_vhost_alias">VirtualScriptAlias</directive>
- directive, except that it uses the IP address of the server end
- of the connection for directory interpolation instead of the server
- name.</p>
-
- </usage>
-
- </directivesynopsis>
- </modulesynopsis>
-
-