Topic: how to host multiple sites, each with rewriterule's

[ssmith]

I have apache 2.2 and 3 local sites
c:\apache2.2\htdocs\mymainsite\
c:\apache2.2\htdocs\mymainsite\subsite1\
c:\apache2.2\htdocs\mymainsite\subsite2\

mymainsite will show just a directory listing of the other subsites.
None are live yet, so it is all local hosting.
So I read apache documents and tried the following with no success yet.
Is it correct approach?


1. I add this to httpd-vhosts.conf
######################
# my main site
<VirtualHost *:80>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteOptions Inherit
<Directory "C:/Apache2.2/htdocs/mymainsite">
RewriteBase /mymainsite
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [L]
</Directory>

ServerName mymainsite.loc
DocumentRoot "C:/Apache2.2/htdocs/mymainsite"
</VirtualHost>

# subsite 1
<VirtualHost *:80>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteOptions Inherit

<Directory "C:/Apache2.2/htdocs/mymainsite/subsite1">
RewriteBase /mymainsite/subsite1
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [L]
</Directory>

ServerName subsite1.loc
DocumentRoot "C:/Apache2.2/htdocs/mymainsite/subsite1"
</VirtualHost>
etc.

and

2. I include in httpd.conf
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
<IfModule dir_module>
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
</IfModule>
<Directory "C:/Apache2.2/htdocs">
AllowOverride none
</Directory>
NameVirtualHost mymainsite.loc
NameVirtualHost subsite1.loc
NameVirtualHost subsite2.loc


and

3. I edit windows hosts file like:
###################
127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost
127.0.0.1 mymainsite.loc
127.0.0.1 subsite1.loc
127.0.0.1 subsite2.loc


Is this the correct?
Should Directory be inside VirtualHost?
I want to be able to enter a url like
http://mymainsite.loc\aaa\bbb\ccc
and
http://subsite1.loc/aaa/bbb/ccc
where folders aaa/bbb/ccc don't exist but the rewrite rule sends the url to correct index.php, and then decides what page to present.
Thanks
Smith

[James Blond]

Why are you using rewrite instead of several vhosts?