Multiple URLs - same server

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Hi all,

I know there have been postings regarding this, which I've read, but continue to be spinning wheels.

I am attempting to implement two URL's for our server (for posting purposes, let's call them example1.com and example2.com) that point to two separate applications...using Apache and Mongrel.

example1.com points to the first app, bert...which is at /var/ruby/SS/; example2.com will point to the second app, earnie...which is a namespace under /var/ruby/SS (var/ruby/SS/app/views/earnie, var/ruby/SS/app/controllers/earnie, var/ruby/SS/app/models/earnie...etc).

example1.com and example2.com have both been added to DNS server...example1.com works great, however I'm still attempting to get example2.com to redirect to the second app. If go to example2.com/earnie...it works great, however I want example2.com to redirect to example2.com/earnie. Right now it just continues to bring up the first app (example1.com).

Any suggestions (or am I completely off-base with my approach)?

Below are the VirtualHost entries in my Apache config:

<NameVirtualHost *>

<VirtualHost *>   ServerName www.example1.com   ServerAlias www.example1.com   ProxyPass /images!

  RewriteEngine On   #Rewrite rule to redirect all requests to https   RewriteRule ^.*$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R] </VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>   ServerName www.example2.com   ServerAlias www.example2.com   ProxyPass /images!

  Rewrite On   #Rewrite rule to redirect all requests to https   RewriteRule ^.*$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R]   #Rewrite rule to redirect requests to earnie RewriteRule^https://www.example2.com$ https://www.example2.com/earnie [L,R] </VirtualHost>

Thanks, Brian

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I notice that you're redirecting to https. For that to work, you will need to have separate IP addresses because the SSL is made at the IP level before the name is known. After that, only one name will work (unless perhaps you have a wildcard certificate and you're talking about subdomains, but your examples were top-level domains).

-Rob

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Rob Biedenharn wrote in post #963175:

I notice that you're redirecting to https. For that to work, you will need to have separate IP addresses because the SSL is made at the IP level before the name is known. After that, only one name will work (unless perhaps you have a wildcard certificate and you're talking about subdomains, but your examples were top-level domains).

-Rob

SS/; redirect to example2.com/earnie. Right now it just continues to bring ServerAlias www.example1.com ProxyPass /images! Brian . For more options, visit this group at

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en

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Rob Biedenharn Rob@AgileConsultingLLC.com http://AgileConsultingLLC.com/ rab@GaslightSoftware.com http://GaslightSoftware.com/

Thanks Rob...seeing how the second app is only an anonymous survey application and wouldn't necessarily require SSL, I've alted the example2 VirtualHost to the following:

<VirtualHost *>   ServerName www.example2.com   ServerAlias www.example2.com   ProxyPass /images!

  Rewrite On   #Rewrite rule to redirect requests to earnie   RewriteRule^http://www.example2.com$ Example - Example [L,R] </VirtualHost>

However, what displays now (using http, not https) is the index page of my document root (/var/ruby/SS/public). I'm sure I'm overlooking something, but just not experienced with mod rewrites to know exactly what.

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I suspect that you need a few more things:

   DocumentRoot /var/ruby/SS/public/    <Directory /var/ruby/SS/public/>            Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews            AllowOverride None            Order allow,deny            allow from all    </Directory>

I don't think you need the Rewrite stuff at all.

-Rob

Rob Biedenharn Rob@AgileConsultingLLC.com http://AgileConsultingLLC.com/ rab@GaslightSoftware.com http://GaslightSoftware.com/