DocumentRoot..issues...i suppose

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Alright. This is all in my local machine (localhost).

 

I use WAMP.

 

I have a 'www' folder. That's the DocumentRoot  (DocumentRoot "S:/sites/www/")

 

now, inside 'www', i have folders of the sites i work on. let's say siteA, siteB, siteC, siteD,etc

 

Sometimes i get path issues (with php) when using includes and stuff. For example, if i link something to '/', it goes to 'www', not 'site#'.

So what i usually have to do is, if i wanna work on siteB, i have to change apache's DocumentRoot to DocumentRoot "S:/sites/www/siteB/"....and do this for every time i work on a site.

 

is there a way around this?

[corbin]

Hrmmmm three solutions I can think of:

 

virtual hosts for each site.  (hosts file or something could be used if you didn't feel like making a ton of hosts on no-ip or something.)

 

Or, you could do something like:

 

define('ROOT', dirname(__FILE__));

 

 

In the first file the site is accessed through if that makes sense, and then just use that in the include path.

 

Or, you could use relative includes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hrmmm, what else could you do....  You could use wildcard subdomains and make it do, sd.site.tld go to /docroot/sd/.

 

 

I'm out of ideas.

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How would i go go about Virtual Hosts?

 

I've read this: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/vhosts/name-based.html

 

So i tried something like this:

 

<VirtualHost *:80>

ServerName siteA

DocumentRoot C:\www\siteA

</VirtualHost>

 

then i go to 12.356.67.89/siteA but it doesnt work (of course i replace those numbers with my IP)

 

If i were to get rid of the <virtualhost> block, and just typed 'localhost'  or my IP address in my url bar, it works. it lists folders inside 'www'.

 

Any help?

 

 

 

 

[trq]

Given the above example you would simply type http://siteA in your address bar. Of course you will also need to add an entry to your hosts file. eg;

 

127.0.0.1 siteA

 

Sorry, not being a windows user I'm not sure where the hosts file is stored on windows. You'll need to search for a file called hosts.

 

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Thank you, Thorpe. That worked perfectly.

 

And for anyone reading this in the future, the host file in windowsXP is in:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\

 

 

But what if i want other people to see? I mean, the server is live because when i type in my IP, directory listing 'www' shows.

 

What if i wanna show someone siteA? (i tried typing my ip followed by /siteA...but siteA is not root that way)

 

 

[wildteen88]

I had a similar issue to this, however I solved it by using the mod_userdir module.It allowed me to use the following url: http://11.22.33.44/~sitename/ to access whatever site I had setup in my virtualhosts when using an IP address to access the Server.

 

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Hi Wildteen,

I actually went through this page: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_userdir.html but still don't seem to be getting it to work. Apache won't even start after i try.

 

Could you show me how you did it?

 

Thanks.

[corbin]

UserDir disabled

UserDir enabled site1 site2 site3

UserDir /path/to/site/directories/

 

 

That should do it.

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naw =(

 

here's the config:

------------------------

 

NameVirtualHost *:80

 

<VirtualHost *:80>

ServerName localhost

DocumentRoot S:\sites\www

</VirtualHost>

 

<VirtualHost *:80>

ServerName purrr

DocumentRoot S:\sites\www\purrr

</VirtualHost>

 

<VirtualHost *:80>

ServerName decay

DocumentRoot S:\sites\www\decay

</VirtualHost>

 

<VirtualHost *:80>

ServerName sushie

DocumentRoot S:\sites\www\sushie

</VirtualHost>

------------------------

 

Just in case if it helps.

 

[trq]

Have you got any domain name pointing to this machine? You could simply make the sites a subdomain of the current domain. eg;

 

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName localhost
  DocumentRoot S:\sites\www
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName purrr.yourdomain.com
  DocumentRoot S:\sites\www\purrr
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName decay.yourdomain.com
  DocumentRoot S:\sites\www\decay
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName sushie.yourdomain.com
  DocumentRoot S:\sites\www\sushie
</VirtualHost>

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Shouldn't i be able to do something like that with my IP? For example:

 

 

<VirtualHost *:80>

  ServerName 122.111.22/sushie

  DocumentRoot S:\sites\www\sushie

</VirtualHost>

 

 

I don't see why that wouldn't work, but it doesn't.

I mean it works, but, S:\sites\www\sushie isn't the root..the root is 'www'. (i test by having <?php echo $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']; ?> on the index file of each site.

[corbin]

That's an invalid ServerName is why....

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Well it's actually my IP. I just didn't wanna write it to the public =P

[corbin]

I mean the /sushie part is invalid.