Using mod-rewrite to conditionally select existing file in a subdirectory based on Host header?
- by Kevin Hakanson
I'm working through a problem where I want to select a different static content file based on the incoming Host header. The simple example is a mapping from URLs to files like this:
www.example.com/images/logo.gif - \images\logo.gif
skin2.example.com/images/logo.gif - \images\skin2\logo.gif
skin3.example.com/images/logo.gif - \images\skin3logo.gif
I have this working with the following RewriteRules, but I don't like how I have to repeat myself so much. Each host has the same set of rules, and each RewriteCond and RewriteRule has the same path. I'd like to use the RewriteMap, but I don't know how to use it to map the %{HTTP_HOST} to the path.
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs"
ServerName www.example.com
ServerAlias skin2.example.com
ServerAlias skin3.example.com
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} skin2.example.com
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}$1/skin2/$2 -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*) $1/skin2/$2 [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} skin3.example.com
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}$1/skin3/$2 -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)/(.*) $1/skin3/$2 [L]
</VirtualHost>
The concept behind the rules is if the same filename exists in a subdirectory for that host, use it instead of the direct targeted file. This uses host based subdirectories at the lowest level, and not a top level subdirectory to separate content.
