Re: OSX Serve 10.4.2: Webserver: Virtual Hosts

On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 09:52:58PM -0700, Pedro Alvarez Jr. wrote:
> I hope I can describe what is needed succinctly:
> We are having our website redesigned.
> Part of the process was upgrading our server to a G5 running X Serve
> software which includes a webserver that uses Apache. That part is
> set up fine. When we go live slc.berkeley.edu will point to the
> right place.
> The tricky part is that the designers want a virtual host set up for both
> slc.berkeley.edu
> and
> slcdev.berkeley.edu
>
> I guess the virtual part is this:
> when a user types in slc.berkeley.edu, all the user will see in a
> browser is slc.berkeley.edu BUT
> the actual page that is returned would be
> slc.berkeley.edu/slc/general/index.htm
>
> and
>
> there is a development site for staff use. Staff would type
> slcdev.berkeley.edu and the browser would display slcdev.berkeley.edu
> BUT the actual page would be
> slcdev.berkeley.edu/slcdev/general/index.htm
>
> I've spent hours fooling around with the Web settings in Server Admin
> to no avail.
> Has anyone successfully done this using OS X Serve?
> thanks for any help

You might need to edit the httpd.conf file directly.
The syntax is:

NameVirtualHost <ip_address>:80

<VirtualHost <ip_address>:80>
ServerName slc.berkeley.edu
DocumentRoot /path/to/htdocs/slc/general
</VirtualHost>

You'll need to request slcdev.berkeley.edu as a host alias; mail
hostmaster@nic.berkeley.edu.

-- 
Tom Holub (tom_holub@LS.Berkeley.EDU, 510-642-9069)
Director of Computing, College of Letters & Science
249 Campbell Hall
<http://LS.berkeley.edu/computing/>
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