is this possible ?

[chacs]

Hi,

Say I have a domain "foo.org".

Create 2 subdomains: dev.foo.org and live.foo.org

The directory structure would be:

~/www/dev/
~/www/live/

Is it possible to serve foo.org (and www.foo.org) off live.foo.org ?

In other word, I'd like ~/www/live/ to "act" as the apache documentroot of the site.

The reason for doing this is to setup a development directory and a live (production) directory. And pushing a tested site to production can be done by simply renaming the test dir to live.

One requirement would be that the browser address bar should show (foo.org or www.foo.org) and not (live.foo.org or foo.org/live).

I hope my explaination is clear enough.

Thanx in advance.

-cs

[jason]

You should be able to do something with mod_rewrite, although I don't have the exact rules to use figured out...

--Jason

[Gwaihir]

Probably easiest to ask support to change the documentroot for your main site to public_html/live instead of public_html.

It's (AFAIK) just a one line change in the httpd file of the server, so they might not mind. On the other hand, it might mess with automatic setups through the CPanel software, so maybe they will mind after all. But asking is worth a try IMHO, before going for rewrite rules instead.

[gerilya]

try the following:
1. Create subdomains live and dev
In your home directory:
2. mv public_html public_html.real
3. ln -s public_html.real/live public_html
4. cd public_html.real/live
5. ln -s ../dev dev
6. ln -s . live

If apache is configured to follow symlinks, that should work.
Good luck