Different folder as website subfolder

Question

I need some help with URL rewriting. The case is similar with this one.

I have a working Zend Framework site. Now I must add a blog in Wordpress (also working). I've chosen not to indulge in ZF controller-/action-/route-making; I've seen a couple of tutorials about this and I consider them too much for a "plain" redirection. Now, about that "redirection"...

This is how it should look like:

• www.site.com (points to /var/www/zf)
• www.site.com/blog (points to /var/www/wp)

I know that I should stop www.site.com/blog to enter ZF's innards and I'm currently doing this with RewriteRule ^blog - [NC,L] in its .htaccess, but that's about it. As @jason said, "just pass it through to Wordpress", but I don't know how exactly to do that.

Related question:
I never tried it, but does Apache support this in two different vhosts?
ServerName www.site.com (vhost for ZF site)
ServerName www.site.com/blog (vhost for WP site)

Answer 1

www.site.com (points to /var/www/zf)

www.site.com/blog (points to /var/www/wp)

The easiset way to achive this, where you want a sub-url to point outside the VirtualHost's DocumentRoot directory, is to create an Alias...

Inside the VirtualHost block add:

Alias /blog /var/www/wp

<Directory /var/www/wp>
    Options All
    AllowOverride All
    order allow,deny
    allow from all
</Directory>

*This assumes you have PHP enabled in some way for that directory.

Answer 2

The ServerName trick will not work: you can not have path names in a ServerName directive.

For mod_rewrite you should be able to get away with something like this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^blog/(.*)$ wp/$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ zf/$1 [L]