Enhanced Virtual Hosting: Dynamic Document Root

[danielniccoli]

Original author: julesvan...@gmail.com (March 18, 2011 02:53:51)

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Virtual Server: default
   Document Root: /var/www
   Directory Indexes: index.html,index.php
   Keep-Alive: [x] Allow
   Max Upload Size: [Optional]
   Method: Enhanced Virtual Hosting
   Dynamic Document Root: /www/${root_domain}/${domain}
   Check Document Root: [x]

What is the expected output?
Both dirs respectively /var/www and /www/vector.name/vector.name exist. The expected output are the contents of the latter directory.

What do you see instead?
The contents of the former directory. In other words, the dynamic document root is not found and the general document root is used.

What version of the product are you using?
About: Cherokee 1.2.1

On what operating system?
Debian squeeze 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64

Please provide any additional information below.

It has been tested with the template variables: ${domain} and ${tld} which worked as expected, so the problem is with the variable: ${root_domain}.

Since squeeze only supports Cherokee 1.0.8-5 and the ${root_domain} variable was not available in that version, it was desirable to upgrade to a newer version of Cherokee. To the /etc/sources.list has been added the following line: "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/cherokee-webserver/ubuntu karmic main" followed by an apt-get install.

Extra:
While not interested in mass hosting, there exists a strong wish to mass organize files in a constructive way, preferably using the reverse dns convention in two steps. Let's say: /www/${tld.domainname}/${tld.domainname.*} where * can be substituted by subdomainnames any level deep, so I would suggest respectively a ${root_domain_r} and ${domain_r} where the postfix _r means reversed dns notation.

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/cherokee/issues/detail?id=1159