Subdomain to subfolder in Apache - apache

Question

I am looking for Apache configuration that would allow for the following:
Serve sub.domain.com as /%docRoot%/domain.com/sub, and
Would be able to do this for every hosted domain and any subdomain (ie. no per-domain vhost configuration)
I would be grateful for any solution, especially if there was no mod_rewrite involved (using mod_vhost_alias).
Note: There are some obvious solutions using mod_vhost_alias, but they either work for domain.com or sub.domain.com, none of them seems to cover both cases.
Have a nice day!

Answer 1

Point *.domain.com to your document root (/%docRoot%/). You'll need to do this in a vhost config. In that same vhost, add this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/domain.com/
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^\.]+)\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /domain.com/%1/$1 [L]
If you want to avoid pointing www.domain.com to /%docRoot%/domain.com/www, then add a condition to exclude it:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/domain.com/
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^\.]+)\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /domain.com/%1/$1 [L]
EDIT:
I assume I will still have to do this for every hosted domain (as the examples you've posted all refer to "domain.com"). Am I right?
Yes, the above will only do the routing for domain.com, if you want to do this for all arbitrary domain.com, you'll need to do something a bit more tricky:
RewriteEngine On
# here, %1 = subdomain name, and %2 = domain name
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^\.]+)\.(.+)$ [NC]
# make sure the request doesn't already start with the domain name/subdomain name
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}:%2/%1 !^/([^/]+/[^/]+)[^:]*:\1
# rewrite
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /%2/%1/$1 [L]
The tricky thing here is the %{REQUEST_URI}:%2/%1 !^/([^/]+/[^/]+)[^:]*:\1 match. It posits the condition: %{REQUEST_URI}:domain.com/sub and makes sure the %{REQUEST_URI} doesn't start with the domain.com/sub (back refrenced from previous match using %2/%1) using the \1 back reference.
With this, you setup your vhost to accept every domain (default vhost) and any subdomain/domain will get routed. Examples:
http://blah.bleh.org/file.txt goes to /%docRoot%/bleh.org/blah/file.txt
http://foo.bar.com/some/path/ goes to /%docRoot%/bar.com/foo/some/path/
http://sub2.sub1.d.com/index.html goes to /%docRoot%/sub1.d.com/sub2/index.html
EDIT2:
Yes, I would very much like to get domain.com routed to /%docRoot%/domain.com/
Try these:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.+?)\.([^\.]+\.[^\.]+)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}:%2/%1 !^/([^/]+/[^/]+)[^:]*:\1
RewriteRule ^/?(.*)$ /%2/%1/$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^\.]+\.[^\.]+)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}:%1 !^/([^/]+)[^:]*:\1
RewriteRule ^/?(.*)$ /%1/$1 [L]
Basically the same thing, except a few of the regex needs to be tweaked to separate what a domain.com is like vs sub.domain.com. If you want to redirect www.domain.com to domain.com, that needs to happen before these rules.