If there are any Apache experts out there, I need some help.
I am using Apache to run a development environment on my computer. I have several sites that I am developing, each of which has their own folder in the htdocs root folder.
My question is, how do I get references to the site root to only go to the folder root, rather to htdocs.
That is, I have htdocs/foo. Inside foo, I have a folder images. When loading images on a page, I refer to src=“/images/bar.gif”. But of course, this bounces to htdocs to look for the images folder, which I don’t want.
So either I need to set it so that it looks for the root within each specific site folder, or I need to somehow create an name-address or IP for each folder so I’m not accessing them as localhost/foo. I guess the latter would require configuring a DNS on my computer?
Any help? I am continually amazed by the knowledge of all Slowtwitchia…
If I am understanding your question correctly this is what you are trying to accomplish:
you have a directory tree that looks like:
…/htdocs/foo/images
and in your html you have image references that look like
/images/whatever.jpg
The solution is to either drop the first slash:
images/whatever.jpg
Or use an absolute path:
/htdocs/foo/images/whatever.jpg
This assumes that htdocs is at the root. I am running apache on a Linux box and my web document root is called html, so an absolute path looks like:
/var/www/html/foo/images/whatever.jpg
If this doesn’t make sense pm me more details (platform would be nice to know) and I’ll try a better answer.
-Joey
www.theraceguide.com
I am continually amazed by the knowledge of all Slowtwitchia…
*** So am I. And sometimes it makes me feel like a complete dumbass. You’re post was in English. I’m fairly certain. But I didn’t understand a thing you wrote.
it should not show htdocs/images/foo.gif in the html request if that IP address is mapped right to a propagated domain name. Your domain name, after it gets propagated and set, would = htdocs, or public_html. htdocs would not show in a browser surfing to your website.
The directory htdocs should not show in html requests, nor would public_html or whatever in free beastie, etc.
I would recommend using virtual hosts. If you are only doing things on your local computer, you should not have to configure DNS. You can cheat and just hack up your hosts file. On windows, this is usually under:
c:$winhome\system32\drivers\etc
Add you “fake” names under the localhost setting
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 foo.bar
127.0.0.1 me.slowtwitch.com
On unix/linux, this file is /etc/hosts
After you make the change and save the file, do a quick ping test.
- Open up a command/terminal window
- run the following:
ping my-fake-name.something.or.another
Example:
ping me.slowtwitch.com
PING me.slowtwitch.com (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=128 time=0 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=0 ms
This would be bad output (aka you did something wrong)
ping you.slowtwitch.com
ping: unknown host you.slowtwitch.com
As for apache, setup the vhosts something like this:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin foo@bar.com
DocumentRoot /home/www/twothirds.org
ServerName twothirds.org
ServerAlias www.twothirds.org
ErrorLog logs/twothirds-error_log
CustomLog logs/twothirds-access_log combined
<Directory “/home/www/twothirds.org”>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes
AllowOverride All
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin foo@bar.com
DocumentRoot /home/www/70.3athlete.com
ServerName 70.3athlete.com
ServerAlias ironman70.3athlete.com
ErrorLog logs/70.3athlete-error_log
CustomLog logs/70.3athlete-access_log combined
<Directory “/home/www/70.3athlete.com”>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes
AllowOverride All
As an alternative, you might be able to write custom mod_rewrite rules, but that can be very unfun.
Thanks. This is EXACTLY what I was looking for. I wasted an extra hour after changing the windows hosts file, because once I configured the virtual hosts, I forgot I had to restart Apache… So I was close to going crazy until I had that minor epiphany, and then voila, just as you said… So THANK YOU for your help!