Delivering different css dependent on domain

[Simon Cox]

I use Cpanel to run my server - very good - and it allows me to park a second domain onto my first domain so that the pages have whichever domain you are visiting as the url in the browser - i.e.

www.example.com/index.html
www.test.com/index.html

The index.html files are the same file.

However I want to be able to deliver a different css file based upon which domain is being viewed - so that I deliver the same content but with a different skin for each.

Can this be done with Mod rewrite or any other apache server side wizardry and if so how.

[dklynn]

Simon,

Yes, it can be done via mod_rewrite pretty easily. Using example.css as example.com's css file and test.css as test.com's css, put example.css in your scripts then use:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %[SERVER_NAME] test\.com
RewriteRule example\.css$ test.css [L]

BTW, that's not parking, you're sharing the host directory. Parking doesn't show a website but merely stores the DNS.

Regards,

DK

[Simon Cox]

Brilliant - nice and easy - that's what I was hoping for.

Many thanks!

[dklynn]

Simon,

Looking back at my post, those should have been curly braces, not square braces, around the SERVER_NAME. Sorry about that, I must've been asleep.

Regards,

DK

[Simon Cox]

Oh dear didn't work. I didn't get anything happening - even with the correct brackets!

After a bit of fiddling about I ended up with this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} domain2\.com
RewriteRule typography\.css$ /assets/typography2\.css [L]

When I put the domain1.com in place of domain2.com I do get the typography2.css showing - but for both sites.

I tried paths from the root for both parts of the rewrite rule as well - the one above - with just the file name for the first part and the path from root for the second part.

I also added an escape before the '.' for typography2.css.

Any idea?

[dklynn]

Simon,

BUMMER!

I gave you the "updated" version of the code 'cause I've been reading about $_SERVER variables and didn't trust my old stand-by: HTTP_HOST. Give this a try:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} domain2\.com$
RewriteRule typography\.css$ /assets/typography2.css [L]

Do NOT excape characters in the redirect, only the regex!

I'll be out of the office for a while but I'll check back later to see if that corrected the problem.

Regards,

DK

[Simon Cox]

DK - works a treat! Many thanks!

Simon

[dklynn]

Simon,

It's Party Time!



Regards,

DK