Is there any way to split the root and the other paths in apache2?

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Is there any way to split the root and the other paths in apache2?



I am not sure what the correct terminology is, so I'm just going to give an example.



I want to host my website in my root, using git so i can easily pull new versions of my portfolio as I update it. And then I also just want to have miscellaneous sub-paths that I just have there either for fun, or just something else entirely.



So I want to structure to be


html
│
└──── actualroot
│
└──── otherstuff



and then I want the user to be able to access actual root by just going to the domain name www.example.com and then access the folder otherstuff by going to www.example.com/otherstuff


www.example.com


otherstuff


www.example.com/otherstuff



Is something like this possible? Maybe by redirecting if it doesn't find the path? Or should I just use a subdomain for all miscellaneous sites?





Look at the Alias directive in apache2. (Writing an actually useful answer will probably take me longer than it takes you to solve it by looking it up!)
– James Aylett
2 hours ago



Alias





Thanks! I'll take a look at it.
– stepper
2 hours ago





1 Answer
1



Sure this is possible.



However, it depends on your overall configuration. For a lot of hosters, it is a common pattern, to use the first-level-folder as subdomain-name.



I.e. in your example, you would have:



http://actualroot.mydomain.tld and
http://otherstuff.mydomain.tld



(so, it's easy to call the folder of your primary website "www")



Beside that, you can always use some simple htaccess-rules to rewrite any virtual-path to the actual physical path.


htaccess



For instance (simplified, not complete, but should give you an idea):


Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^www.mydomain.tld/otherstuff/(.*)$ ./html/otherstuff/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^www.mydomain.tld/(.*)$ ./html/actualroot/$1 [R=301,L]



The user would enter www.mydomain.tld and see the content, as if he would have accessed http://mydomain.tld/actualroot/ (www.mydomain.tld/otherstuff/ would show the content of http://mydomain.tld/otherstuff/)


www.mydomain.tld


http://mydomain.tld/actualroot/


www.mydomain.tld/otherstuff/


http://mydomain.tld/otherstuff/





Please note that the processing order (along with [L] is important!) - You can save a lot of work, if you process "longer" paths first, and let every shorter path be processed by the "next" rule (if the prior rule doesn't apply)
– dognose
8 mins ago


[L]






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