The hang up for me is that the user directories aren't
all in the same place so mapping to one specific
sub isn't possible, i.e., /users/a/*, users/b/* users/.../* .
BTW, the user pages are currently served via an nfs
mounted drive, which is also part of the desire to
redirect the requests to a server running on the
machine which owns that drive.
Could anyone help me out here? Any pointers or suggestions
would be very welcome, and I would be eternally grateful.
Regards.
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> I'm currently using one server for virtual sites, our site,
> and user web pages. I'd like to run a second server strictly
> for user pages. This seems to be quite possible to do with
> mod_rewrite or the UserDir directive, however, I haven't
> been able to figure out how to do it with my particular
> set of circumstances. I'm very green when it comes to regular
> expressions- I'm just now really trying to make
> use of them.
Hmmm.... an understanding of regular expressions is needed if you want to use
mod_rewrite. But you could steel a lot of hints from existing rewriting rules
in the documentation of mod_rewrite.
> The hang up for me is that the user directories aren't
> all in the same place so mapping to one specific
> sub isn't possible, i.e., /users/a/*, users/b/* users/.../* .
> BTW, the user pages are currently served via an nfs
> mounted drive, which is also part of the desire to
> redirect the requests to a server running on the
> machine which owns that drive.
> Could anyone help me out here? Any pointers or suggestions
> would be very welcome, and I would be eternally grateful.
I suggest you to read the mod_rewrite documentation, especially the part of
the "Homogenous URL Layout" example. There is exactly such a intranet
configuration which redirects user space according to real servers (which
really hold the stuff locally).
Greetings,
Ralf S. Engelschall
r...@engelschall.com
http://www.engelschall.com/