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copied!<p>Lets say that we have a server running multiple virtual hosts. Somefiles and directories are shared amongst these virtual hosts, such as JS-, HTML-, and some PHP-files. I want to prevent having to make a new copy of these files every single time we add a new virtual host, since it would make it hard to keep the files up to date. So what I want to do is to put these shared files in another parent directory i.e. /var/www/shared_files/.<br /> So when one of the shared files is requested i.e. <a href="http://example.com/scripts/gallery.js" rel="nofollow">http://example.com/scripts/gallery.js</a> I want to get the file located in /var/www/shared_files/gallery.js instead of /var/www/xxx/gallery.js.<br /> <br /> The first solution I found for this problem was a htaccess solution:</p> <pre><code>RewriteRule ^gallery.js ../shared_files/gallery.js </code></pre> <p>Which only works as long as all the files is requested via the servers IP, i.e. <a href="http://11.11.0.111/xxx/gallery.js" rel="nofollow">http://11.11.0.111/xxx/gallery.js</a>.<br /> <br /> The second solution is a PHP solution:</p> <pre><code>if(* is 404 *) { if(file_exists("/var/www/shared_files/* the requested file name *")) { if(strpos(* the requested file name *, ".js") !== false) header("Content-type: text/javascript"); require_once("/var/www/shared_files/* the requested file name *"); die(); } } </code></pre> <p>This dosnt seem like a good solution in the long run so do anyone know of a better solution for this?</p> <ul> <li>Edited after TerryE's comment</li> </ul>

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