Mapping directories to their own site

Greetings.

I am trying to set up a web site with several independant sub-sites for demonstrations. Each of these sub-sites needs to have its own document root and cgi-bin. I would like to use only one server name and port, but use a directory structure to link to each site. I would also like to keep all of these virtual sites on a single server.

For example, I could have two demo sites each reached by going to the following URLs:

http://www.mysite.com/demo1/home.html
http://www.mysite.com/demo2/home.html

Everything under demo1 would run its own isolated area from demo2 including all aliases. I don't think this should be too difficult, but I can't seem to find anywhere in the documentation to do this sort of mapping (only name based and IP based). Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks in advance.

Khomar

[Edited by khomar on 02-28-2001 at 01:29 PM]

You haven't provided the docroot for demo* site. Here is an example that assumes demo* is a user account:

AliasMatch ^/([^/]*)/?(.*) /home/$1/public_html/$2
DirectoryIndex home.html

This actually converts http://www.mysite.com/~username/home.html to http://www.mysite.com/username/home.html

freebsd,

Yeah, I thought about using the alias', but the problem is that it does not translate the documentment root or cgi-bin to the new directory. Let me try this again:

We have the following URL's:

http://www.mysite.com/demo1/home.html
http://www.mysite.com/demo2/home.html

These would actually map to:
/home/demos/demo1/
/home/demos/demo2/

with my actual home page at:
/home/httpd

All of these directories would have their own cgi-bin and html sub-directories. Once the user (or one of my pages) entered a URL starting with http://www.mysite.com/demo1/, Apache would treat all subsequent pages as if it was a completely separate server. In this way, when the software running in the cgi-bin directory would make a call to a file in the html directory (ie <img src="/icons/something.gif"> ), it would actually look for this file under the /home/demos/demo1/html/icons directory instead of /home/httpd/html/icons.

http://www.mysite.com/demo1/icons/something.gif
--> /home/demos/demo1/html/icons/something.gif

http://www.mysite.com/demo2/icons/something.gif
--> /home/demos/demo2/html/icons/something.gif

http://www.mysite.com/icons/something.gif
--> /home/httpd/html/icons/something.gif


Does this make sense? Is this possible?

>> These would actually map to:
>> /home/demos/demo1/
>> /home/demos/demo2/

Don't do that. Instead, create a public_html directory at: /home/demos/public_html/demo*/ for permission+security.
A proper ~user directory might contain multiple subdirectories, and you definitely don't want to map wildcard subdirs of that for security reasons.
There should also be a global UserDir public_html directory requires that UserDir cannot be empty. As you can see, demo1 and demo2 don't match.

Next, change /home/$1/public_html/$2 to /home/demos/public_html/$2

>> All of these directories would have their own cgi-bin and html sub-directories

The $2 takes everything after /home/demos/public_html/* including subdirs.

>> with my actual home page at: /home/httpd

This is fine since you are mapping only the dirs under public_html of the user demos.

>> would make a call to a file in the html directory (ie <img src="/icons/something.gif"> )

You can't do that. /icons/something.gif is a relative URL to http://www.mysite.com/, not what you wanted as http://www.mysite.com/demo1/
BTW, /icons directory is reserved for global use, you should never use the name icons, try something else like images, just don't use icons.

Try this: Alias /*/icons/ "/home/httpd/icons/"

As for cgi-bin dir, you can add this:

ScriptAliasMatch ^/*/cgi-bin/ /home/demos/public_html/$1/cgi-bin/

So that http://www.mysite.com/demo2/cgi-bin/ would be mapped to /home/demos/public_html/demo2/cgi-bin/


[Edited by freebsd on 02-28-2001 at 07:00 PM]