Issue
-- Original post ---
I'd like to setup a dev env to play with some apache features. I'm running httpd on fedora.
I added to hosts local redirects
# cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 example1.com
127.0.0.1 example2.com
# cmkdir /var/www/example1; echo "Hello from /var/www/example1/index.html" > /var/www/example1/index.html
# cmkdir /var/www/example2; echo "Hello from /var/www/example2/index.html" > /var/www/example2/index.html
# cmkdir /var/www/example2/sub ; echo "Hello from /var/www/example2/sub/index.html" > /var/www/example2/sub/index.html
# cvi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
<VirtualHost _default_:80>
DocumentRoot "/var//www/html"
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
DocumentRoot "/var/www/example1"
ServerName example1.com
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
DocumentRoot "/var/www/example2"
ServerName example2.com
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
DocumentRoot "/var/www/example2/sub"
ServerName sub.example2.com
ServerPath "/sub/"
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule "^(/sub/.*)" "/var/www/example2$1"
</VirtualHost>
# capachectl -t ; apachectl restart
# curl localhost
Hello from /var/www/html/index.html
# curl example1.com
Hello from /var/www/example1/index.html
# curl example2.com
Hello from /var/www/example2/index.html
# curl sub.example2.com
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript">
<script type="text/javascript">
... ( lots of stuff different from the one i echoed) ...
If I do the same thing in local firefox - localhost works as expected, example1.com works as expected, but sub.example2.com redirects me to example2.com.
Can you please help me to figure out how to configure a local sub-domain? What is missing? Based on https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/vhosts/examples.html I believe what I did is correct.
-- Edit / Update ---
If I follow the advice below from Newbie and change only the rewrite rule, without making any other changes from the setup above:
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
DocumentRoot "/var/www/example2/sub"
ServerName sub.example2.com
ServerPath "/sub/"
# RewriteEngine On
# RewriteRule "^(/sub/.*)" "/var/www/example2$1"
</VirtualHost>
I get :
# curl sub.example2.com
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: sub.example2.com
If I
# cat /etc/hosts | grep sub
127.0.0.1 example2.com sub.example2.com
It works as expected
#curl example2.com
Hello from /var/www/example2/index.html
# curl sub.example2.com
Hello from /var/www/example2/sub/index.html
Still this seems to be strange setup. I don't want to create /etc/hosts record for each sub-domain... Shouldn't it be possible to handle this situation only via the httpd VirtualHost setting, without changing the DNS settings locally or even worse - adding C records in the DNS of a domain(if not localhost)? Any hint what I'm doing wrong? How can I get sub.example1.com to work without modifying the dns settings?
Regards, Pavel
Solution
I believe I found out the answer to my question ...
** How to run locally sub-domains?**
/etc/hosts does not support wild cards(*.example2.com) and one needs to setup a local dns proxy server like dnsmasq for example. Otherwise for dev purposes you have to list (and then maintain :/ ) the sub-domains one-by-one in the /etc/hosts for local dev purposes.
How to run the sub-domains via official DNS records for domain ?
Seems laziest approach is to setup DNS settings having:
example2.com A the-server-IP
example2.com MX 0 example2.com
*.example2.com CNAME example2.com
Looking forward to your comments, if there is smarter approach. If you agree this is the way to go - please accept the answer, so other members know it is the way to go.
Regards, Pavel
Answered By - ppavlov
