[DaFoot]

I have a lump of code I've been given to edit. Due to the interesting way it's been created it has to live at the root of my domain... ie localhost/.

However, I want to be able to use localhost/oldapp to get at sites I had previously been working on.


# default for any not matched elsewhere - this goes to root of newapp on disk
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/newapp
</VirtualHost>
# now try to pick out specific URLs
<VirtualHost *:80/anothersite>
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/anothersite
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>

It's been a good 10 years 6 or 7 years since I've done this stuff and it seems I've forgotten how it should be done!
Use it or lose it I guess!

[kinetic]

config files get prioritised top to bottom. So *.80 would override *:80/anothersite

Try putting anothersite first

[DaFoot]

Reordered then, *:80 still gets them all.

[kinetic]

Cant you just add "127.0.0.1 anothersite" into your hosts file then do:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName anothersite
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/anothersite
</VirtualHost>

Or is there a reason you can't do that?

[steev]

If I were doing that I'd just run the awkward code on another port.

Look for the Listen line in httpd.conf (RH/CentOS) or ports.conf (I think on debian/ubuntu) & add another line for port 81, then...

<VirtualHost *:81>

& just ht tp :/ / 127.0.0.1:81

**edit - just seen kinetic's answer. Yeh, or that.

[DaFoot]

Ahh yes, another port. That appears to work. Move the awkward app off to another port, so presumably I can now remove my *:80 virtual host and let apache work as it was doing (sylinks to elsewhere in system) on port 80.

[DaFoot]

Port separation I liked, but problematic when it comes to some testing I was trying to do and cross port JS.

Ended up with hosts changes and httpd.conf:

NameVirtualHost localhost
<VirtualHost localhost:80>
   DocumentRoot /var/www/html
   ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost anothersite:80>
   ServerName anothersite
   DocumentRoot /var/www/html/anothersite
</VirtualHost>

Thanks for input guys