Enhanced Virtual-Hosting¶
Module: mod_evhost
Description¶
mod_evhost builds the document-root based on a pattern which contains
wildcards. Those wildcards can represent parts of the submitted hostname
%% => % sign %0 => domain name + tld %1 => tld %2 => domain name without tld %3 => subdomain 1 name %4 => subdomain 2 name %_ => full domain name %{M.N} => single character at 1-indexed position N in the domain segment %M (e.g %0 - %9) (since 1.4.43)evhost.path-pattern = "/home/www/servers/%3/pages/"
Note that % patterns in evhost.path-pattern have the special meanings listed above. They do not have the same meanings as % substitutions in url.redirect and url.rewrite-*.
Options¶
evhost.path-pattern
pattern with wildcards to be replace to build a documentroot
Samples¶
User vhosts
$HTTP["host"] =~ "users\.example\.org" { evhost.path-pattern = "/home/%4/public_html/" }
http://johndoe.users.example.org/ => /home/johndoe/public_html/
Since lighttpd 1.4.43:
$HTTP["host"] =~ "users\.example\.org" { evhost.path-pattern = "/home/%{4.1}/%4/public_html/" }
http://johndoe.users.example.org/ => /home/j/johndoe/public_html/
General Example¶
server.document-root = "/home/user/sites/default/site" evhost.path-pattern = "/home/user/sites/%0/site/"
If example.org is requested, and /home/user/sites/example.org/site/ is found, that path becomes the docroot.
If example.net is requested but no directory named /home/user/sites/example.net/site/ exists, then the docroot remains /home/user/sites/default/site
A Bad Example¶
server.document-root = "/home/user/sites/" evhost.path-pattern = "/home/user/sites/%0/site/"
server.document-root should never point to the directory with your evhost subdirs.
Here's why: Assume foo.example.com and bar.example.com both point to the server.
Assume that /home/user/sites/foo.example.com/site exists, but /home/user/sites/bar.example.com/site does not.
If foo.example.com is configured via mod_auth:
$HTTP["host"] == "foo.example.com" { auth.require = ( "/" => ... ) }
We could bypass the configured auth by accessing http://bar.example.com/foo.example.com/site/
Updated by gstrauss about 8 years ago · 23 revisions