apache virtualhost: Auto subdomain with exception

Posted by Ineentho on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Ineentho
Published on 2012-04-15T10:01:59Z Indexed on 2012/04/15 11:32 UTC
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I've been searching for a way to automatically redirect domains to a specific folder, and fond a good answer here on serverfault: Apache2 VirtualHost auto subdomain. (The accepted answer)

So far everything works good, however now I need to add an exception to this. The result I want is this:

http://localhost/        -->   E:/websites/
http://specialDomain2/   -->   E:/websites/
http://normal1.com/      -->   E:/websites/normal1.com/
http://normalDomain.com/ -->   E:/websites/normal2.com/

I get the expceted result for the two last domains, but the localhost doesn't work.

I copied the script from the question aboved, and tried to add something like

<VirtualHost *:80>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteMap lowercase int:tolower
    # if already rewitten and we have the right path, stop right here
    RewriteRule ^(E:/websites/[^/]+/.*)$ $1 [L]
    RewriteRule ^localhost/(.*)$ E:/websites/$1 [L] # <-- Added this row
    RewriteRule ^(.+) ${lowercase:%{SERVER_NAME}}$1 [C]
    RewriteRule ^(www\.)?([^/]+)/(.*)$ E:/websites/$2/$3 [L,E=VHOST_ROOT:E:/websites/$2/]
</VirtualHost>

I thought this would make sense, since I would translate this to

if URL = localhost/*
   Do nothing (because of the [L] flag), and use the default document root specified earlier
else
   continue

What's wrong with this? Thanks for any help!

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