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 Topic: Building a dynamic white-label site on Apache 2.4.x |
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CodeClimber
Joined: 29 Oct 2014
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 Posted: Wed 29 Oct '14 17:31 Post subject: Building a dynamic white-label site on Apache 2.4.x |
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Hi.
How do I architect and design a dynamic, white-label website i.e. a site where the components are dynamic based on a path component in the URL?
For example, requests to these endpoints:
would both resolve to the same HTML file on Apache but load different CSS and display different images, text etc. based on the prog1/prog2 component of the URL path.
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I have come up with a solution using RewriteRules but am not sure this is the best way to go about this:
Let's call each implementation of the white label site a program.
On Apache there will be a /core directory where all static content lives:
Each program will have it's own directory in Apache to host program-specific content:
| Quote: | /prog1/image1.png
/prog2/image1.png |
In the core pages (index.html for example), links to dynamic white-label content look something like this:
| Quote: | | <img src="./dynamic/image1.png"/> |
i.e. a relative link
On Apache, I implement Rewrite rules for all the programs:
| Quote: | RewriteRule ^/prog1/dynamic/(.*)$ /prog1/dynamic/$1 [PT]
RewriteRule ^/prog2/dynamic/(.*)$ /prog2/dynamic/$1 [PT]
RewriteRule ^/prog1/(.*)$ /core/$1 [PT]
RewriteRule ^/prog2/(.*)$ /core/$1 [PT] |
essentially directing all requests for dynamic content into the program-specific folders on Apache and all requests for static content into the core folder on Apache.
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Is this the best way to do this? What other options do the various Apache modules provide that might provide a better approach? |
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James Blond
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| I wonder why you don't run all requests through a single file and handle the output with the server scripting language of your choise. |
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