in reply to VHosting large number of domains(50+), mod-perl

What's wrong with ServerAlias, possibly combined with a RewriteRule?

For example: 

<VirtualHost 1.2.3.4>
DocumentRoot    /path/to/a/single/directory
ServerName      www.mainserver.name
ServerAlias     www.foo.com
ServerAlias     www.bar.com
# etc. etc. about 50 times
# all ServerAliases could be a on a single line,
# but I prefer seperate lines for readability

# only do the following if you want only the main URL to appear in the
+ URL-bar
RewriteEngine   On
RewriteCond     %{HTTP_HOST}    !^www.mainserver.name$               [
+NC]
RewriteRule     ^.*$            http://www.mainserver.name/          [
+R,L]

# other stuff you need for these domains
</VirtualHost>

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Liz

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Re: Re: VHosting large number of domains(50+), mod-perl
by BUU (Prior) on Oct 05, 2003 at 17:35 UTC
    Ah, liz, I have no idea how I missed ServerAlias in the apache docs, but that looks perfect for my needs.
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Re: Re: VHosting large number of domains(50+), mod-perl
by Juerd (Abbot) on Oct 06, 2003 at 18:33 UTC

    It is better to put the alternative hosts in their own <VirtualHost> block if you are going to use mod_rewrite with them. Otherwise, you get the performance hit of mod_rewrite with every hit on the "real" site. 

    <VirtualHost 123.123.123.123>
ServerName foo.com
ServerAlias www.foo.com
...
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost 123.123.123.123>
ServerName other.foo.com
ServerAlias bar.com
ServerAlias www.bar.com
ServerAlias quux.com
ServerAlias www.quux.com
...
RewriteEngine on
# RewriteCond not necessary anymore
RewriteRule ...
</VirtualHost>

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    That said, I must say that I hate typing in all those domains and prefer wildcards, when possible :)

    Juerd # { site => 'juerd.nl', plp_site => 'plp.juerd.nl', do_not_use => 'spamtrap' }

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      Hrm.. virtualhost wild cards? Can you elaborate please?
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