Different DocumentRoots depending on external/internal request

[user11]

Hello,
I have apache 2 installed on my fedora box. I want to use two different document roots. One for people in my network (internal IP request) and one for external ones.

I have read about virtual hosts and tried to configure it many times, but I can't seem to make it work.

Does anyone know how to do this? And tell me what IP addresses to use?

Thanks in advance.

[Jman]

To do IP based virtual hosting your server would have to have two IPs.

Maybe you can do name based virtual hosts if you have an internal DNS server. http://example.com gives the external one, but from the inside http://example results in the internal site.

There is a config tool for this, system-config-httpd.

[james_in_denver]

Pretty sure you can use "mod_rewrite" to take action based on the requesting client's IP address....

It's been a while since I played with it, let me "refresh" my memory (no pun intended??) on that, and I'll get back to ya.

[james_in_denver]

yes, mod_rewrite can do exactly what you want, but learning the syntax and structure is not trivial. However it is probably the most powerful and flexible module for Apache.

Here are a few examples of what it can do.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/rewriteguide.html

[user11]

I'll look into it right away.
Thanks a lot.