Question

I have a root folder htaccess containing my htaccess file and another folder,me containing my index.php file ..I want to use url rewrite such that when I access http://localhost/htaccess/me/index.php , it transforms the url to http://fakeserver/htaccess/me/index.php..

Drupal does such a thing..

I want to do this transformation such that the fakeserver is not a real server just that I rewrite the localhost to fakeserver

Answer 1

Create a new site configuration at /etc/apache2/sites-available/fakeserver
(Note you will need to create file fakeserver)

Inside that, add this:

NameVirtualHost *:8080

<VirtualHost *:8080>
DocumentRoot /var/www/
ServerName fakeserver
</VirtualHost>

Enable it, from your terminal

sudo a2ensite fakeserver

Restart apache to reflect changes

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart