[pmwiki-devel] help with htaccess coding?

[Henrik]

All,

I'm trying to set up a wiki farm, such that "parked" domain names are 
internally redirected to the appropriate paths. As an example I have 
bechmann.ca parked on to bechmannsoftware.ca.

There appears to be something really basic that I'm missing.

In htaccess if I write

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^bechmann\.ca$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.bechmann\.ca$
RewriteRule ^(.*) $1

and then enter bechmann.ca to the browser URL field, I get an error 500, 
though to me this looks like it should just take what it finds and 
substitute itself, ie no net change.

if I enter bechmann.ca/test.php I'm OK (there is a test.php file I put 
there for feedback).

if I enter bechmann.ca/osscommons/home/test.php I'm OK

If I change the RewriteRule to

RewriteRule ^(.*) /osscommons/home/$1

And then enter bechmann.ca/test.php I get an error 500, although it 
looks to me like it should take test.php and produce 
/osscommons/home/test.php

If I change the RewriteRule to

RewriteRule ^(.*) /var/vhosts2/henrik/public_html/osscommons/home/test.php

and enter bechmann.ca

It works, but if I do

RewriteRule ^(.*) 
/var/vhosts2/henrik/public_html/osscommons/home/osscommons.html

and enter bechmann.ca

I get the contents of the html page, but the styling (ie the relative 
directory addressing) is lost.

If I do

RewriteRule ^(.*) /var/vhosts2/henrik/public_html/osscommons/home/$1

and enter bechmann.ca/test.php or bechmann.ca/osscommons.html I get an 
error 500

I have no freakin' idea what's going on   :-(   and I've been tinkering 
for hours.

What am I missing here? Can anyone give me a concept? or a configuration 
clue??

Thanks

- Henrik

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Henrik Bechmann
www.osscommons.ca
www.bechmannsoftware.com
Webmaster, www.dufferinpark.ca