Apache: Map (sub)domain to directories without changing documentroot

Question

I got the documentroot set up like this: var/www/html

What I'm trying to do is:

cms.domain.com --> var/www/html/cms

domain.com --> var/www/html/cms/sites/site1

I'm trying to accomplish this by using virtualhosts. The problem is I can't set a VirtualDocumentRoot for each (sub)domain because the sites use a bunch of scripts and configs, located in var/www/html/includes which are supposed to stay non public, and the apps call these with $_SERVER["document_root"].

What I've tried is this:

<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName domain.com ServerAlias *.domain.com ServerAlias www.domain.com AliasMatch ^(.*)$ /cms/sites/site1/ DocumentRoot /var/www/html <Directory /var/www/html> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Require all granted </Directory> ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined <IfModule mod_dir.c> DirectoryIndex index.php index.pl index.cgi index.html index.xhtml index.htm </IfModule> </VirtualHost> 

and for the subdomain:

<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName cms.domain.com ServerAlias *.cms.domain.com AliasMatch ^(.*)$ /cms/ DocumentRoot /var/www/html <Directory /var/www/html> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Require all granted </Directory> ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined <IfModule mod_dir.c> DirectoryIndex index.php index.pl index.cgi index.html index.xhtml index.htm </IfModule> </VirtualHost> 

Doesn't work. I guess what I'm actually looking for is something to append the path after documentroot while keeping documentroot how it is.

Answer 1

You have a lot of conflicting configuration here. I would suggest creating a VirtualHost for domain.com and www.domain.com and another for *.domain.com and/or *.cms.domain.com with the AliasMatch. There is also precedence in VirtualHosts so domain.com should be last.

The easiest way out of the common config issue is to symlink /var/www/html/includes to each VirtualHost directory and then you at least have consistency.