Hi Folks.
Someone other than me set up the company website a good while before I
came onboard and documentation is very scarce. I'm running into some
weirdness with the way Apache is configured concerning virtual hosts.
We have a subdomain, chrysler.strutmasters.com . Our httpd.conf has a
virtual host directive for it, like so (sorry for the wrapping):
<VirtualHost chrysler.strutmasters.com www.chrysler.strutmasters.com>
ServerName chrysler.strutmasters.com
ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DocumentRoot
usr/masked/path/to/chrysler.strutmasters.com/htdocs
</VirtualHost>
and of course, ~/usr/masked/path/to/chrysler.strutmasters.com/htdocs
exists and has stuff in it.
Thing is, that stuff isn't what comes up when you go to
chrysler.strutmasters.com. If chrysler.strutmasters.com is in the
request at all, it's an automatic redirect to:
http://www.strutmasters.com/chrysler/index.htm
Which is great! That's exactly what I /want/ to happen! Only problem
is, I don't know /why/ it's happening. There's nothing in the vhost
files to cause a redirect that I can see (no meta refresh, no scripted
location headers, nothin'). It's clearly being done before the vhost
directory is consulted, because even if I specify
chrysler.strutmasters.com/index.html (which is nothing but a bare "under
maintenance" placeholder page), it still redirects as explained above.
....but there's also no mod_rewrite, or anything else that I can see, in
httpd.conf. How else can this be made to happen, where a subdomain
automatically redirects to a particular location in a domain's directory
structure? In DNS, chrysler.strutmasters.com is just an alias for
strutmasters.com .
I ask at all because 1) I want to know how to work with it and change it
if the need arises, and 2) I'm about to create canada.strutmasters.com
as a real vhost and I want to make sure it is going to work correctly.
Thanks, everyone!
Cheers,
~Brian Henning
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