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robertlouwen · #1 4th June 2009, 00:33

Gentlemen,

When logged in as admin on the tab "SITES" you will see "Redirect" and "Options"

At the moment I don't use this because I din't know how and I don't want to mess-up my server

But I want to learn so what can

Redirect do for me ? and what about the flags ?
how to use the field "Directives" in the Options tab ?

till · #2 4th June 2009, 08:13

Redirect: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html
Directives: You can put any apache directive there that is allowed within a vhost: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/

Croydon · #3 4th June 2009, 09:26

This is explained quite quickly:

There are two redirection possibilities.

redirect to an other domain
Just set the type to "no flag" and the path to "http://www.myotherdomain.com".
redirect to a subfolder
Let's say you have www.example.com as a domain and you do not want to use the /web/ folder but the /web/exfolder/ for your data.
1. visible redirect
  Choose R or R,L as type and enter /exfolder/ into the path field. Anyone calling www.example.com will be redirected to www.example.com/exfolder/ and this will be visible in the browser's address bar
2. hidden redirect
  Choose no flag or L as type and enter /exfolder/ into the path field. It works the same as above with the difference that the user will still see www.example.com in the address bar.

oups till, you were faster

robertlouwen · #4 4th June 2009, 10:09

@ Croydon,

Thank you for your explanation and if I understand you I don't need to redirect.
I have two domains and they will have different content.

Maybe in future if I install "Joomla" in a folder named "joomla" and I want my visitors to visit something.org instead of someting.org/joomla

PS maybe you can explain "quite quickly" what to do with the field "Directives" in the Options tab ?
I liked your explanation in dummy language for redirect

Croydon · #5 4th June 2009, 10:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by robertlouwen

PS maybe you can explain "quite quickly" what to do with the field "Directives" in the Options tab ?
I liked your explanation in dummy language for redirect

Well, I don't think this is as easy as explaining redirect

In short: you can put everything there that is allowed in a virtual host section inside the apache config.

Examples for directives (taken from the apache config generated by ispconfig):

Code:

ErrorLog /var/log/ispconfig/httpd/test.de/error.log

    ErrorDocument 400 /error/400.html
    ErrorDocument 401 /error/401.html
    ErrorDocument 403 /error/403.html
    ErrorDocument 404 /error/404.html
    ErrorDocument 405 /error/405.html
    ErrorDocument 500 /error/500.html
    ErrorDocument 503 /error/503.html

Code:

<Directory /var/www/clients/client0/web1/web>
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride Indexes AuthConfig Limit FileInfo
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
        <Files ~ '.php[s3-6]{0,1}$'>
            Order allow,deny
            Deny from all
            Allow from none
        </Files>
    </Directory>

Code:

    # suexec enabled
    SuexecUserGroup web8 client1
    # php as fast-cgi enabled
    <Directory /var/www/xxxxxxxxxx/web>
        AddHandler fcgid-script .php .php3 .php4 .php5
        FCGIWrapper /var/www/php-fcgi-scripts/web8/.php-fcgi-starter .php
        Options +ExecCGI
        AllowOverride all
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

You see it's really not easy to explain everything possible there

robertlouwen · #6 4th June 2009, 10:26

@ Croydon,

I think I better leave this one alone !

I have a other question.

When finished installing my server ( at this moment there are no clients or websites ) I made a phpinfo.php file and it showed a lot and also information about Apache.
Now I have 2 clients ( me and my son ) with 3 websites and I copy the phpinfo.php file to the websites and now no Apache information ?