django configuration, mod_rewrite, mod_alias.

Question

I've made a django site for a magazine, and it's found in mag.org/django-site. the old site is still at mag.org/httpdocs (hosted by mediatemple).

I would like it so that a hit to www.mag.org turns up the django site (as is currently the case, configured so in the conf file) while a hit to archive.mag.org serves the old site from httpdocs, that is, it's served by apache and not mod_python.

Is this possible to do through mod-rewrite, or mod-alias?

Thanks a million.

Answer 1

You don't need either of those. Just set up your virtualhosts so that archive.* serves from httpdocs and www.* serves via mod_python (although I really, really recommend you serve Django via mod_wsgi).

For example:

<VirtualHost "*:80">
    ServerName www.mag.org
    SetHandler python-program
    PythonHandler django.core.handlers.modpython
    SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE mysite.settings
    PythonOption django.root /mysite
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost "*:80">
    ServerName archive.mag.org
    DocumentRoot "/var/apache2/httpdocs"
</VirtualHost>

Answer 2

Yes, just use mod_rewrite, fe.:

Options +FollowSymLinks
Options +SymlinksIfOwnerMatch

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mag.org$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mag.org/django-site [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^archive.mag.org$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mag.org/httpdocs [R=301,L]

Unfortunately the redirecion is visible to the user as far as I remember.

Answer 3

DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/mag.org/httpdocs

was all I needed, sitting all alone in /var/www/vhosts/mag.org/subdomains/archive/vhost.conf

The virtualhost solution didn't work for mediatemple, because each vhost.conf is already delimited as a virtualhost, configured by plesk.

Thanks for the help everyone.