Today a customer asked for hosting several domains with different content on one apache virtual host. The little tricky part was, that the sites should not be accessed by subdirs like http://domain20.org/subdir20/ and http://domain21.org/subdir21/ which can be done with a little script which parses the $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']. So mod_rewrite is an option.
To make it user accessable, we use .htaccess. This requires “AllowOverride +FileInfo” to be set for the DocumentRoot in the vhost config. The .htaccess in DocumentRoot could look something like:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} domain10.org$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} domain11.org$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !dir1/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule (.*) dir1/$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} domain20.org$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} domain21.org$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !dir2/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule (.*) dir2/$1 [L]
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Why not create a new VHost, anyway? It would be a lot less work, and would be much saner.
O sorry, I missed your comment.
Short answer. Imagine you have customers, which are paying per vhost. This is a costeffective solution.
I tried your solution but unfortunately it didn’t work for me. Here is what i found out:
Setting Up A Name Based Virtual Host (vHost)
This has nothing todo with creating vhosts itself. This is a way to host multiple domains on one vhosts.