Apache: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition

A Rewrite Example

The Butterthlies salespeople seem to be taking their jobs more seriously. Our range has increased so much that the old catalog based around a single HTML document is no longer workable because there are too many cards. We have built a database of cards and a utility called cardinfo that accesses it using the arguments:

cardinfo cardid query

where cardid is the number of the card and query is one of the following words: “price,” “artist,” or “size.” The problem is that the salespeople are too busy to remember the syntax, so we want to let them log on to the card database as if it were a web site. For instance, going to http://sales.butterthlies.com/info/2949/price would return the price of card number 2949. The Config file is in ... /site.rewrite :

User webuser Group webgroup # Apache requires this server name, although in this case it will # never be used. # This is used as the default for any server that does not match a # VirtualHost section. ServerName www.butterthlies.com NameVirtualHost 192.168.123.2 <VirtualHost www.butterthlies.com> ServerAdmin [e-mail] DocumentRoot /usr/www/APACHE3/site.rewrite/htdocs/customers ServerName www.butterthlies.com ErrorLog /usr/www/APACHE3/site.rewrite/logs/customers/error_log TransferLog /usr/www/APACHE3/site.rewrite/logs/customers/access_log </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost sales.butterthlies.com> ServerAdmin [e-mail] DocumentRoot /usr/www/APACHE3/site.rewrite/htdocs/salesmen Options ExecCGI indexes ...