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Configuring a mobile subdomain for apache
peakpg edited this page Mar 28, 2012
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This module relies heavily on Apache and mod_rewrite in order to automatically detect what device a user is browsing the site, and redirect them accordingly. These steps cover how to configure Apache so that will end up with the following subdomains.
- www.example.com - Public 'full' site for visitors (Cached)
- cms.example.com - Admin access (uncached)
- m.example.com - Mobile subdomain (Cached)
The first two (www and cms) are the standard CMS subdomains you configure as per the Deployment Guide. The new mobile subdomain will serve the mobile content. Anytime you see one of the above domain names below, just substitute your project's domain for it. Here is a sample conf file for it.
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/var/www/vhosts/examplesite/public"
ServerName www.example.com
RailsEnv production
RewriteEngine On
# Set a 'full site' cookie if the user wants to stay on the full site. (2 weeks cookie by default)
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} prefer_full_site=true
RewriteRule ^/?(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1? [L,CO=prefer_full_site:true:.example.com:840]
# If the user wants the mobile site, set the cookie, redirect and stop.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} prefer_mobile_site=true
RewriteRule ^/?(.*)$ http://m.example.com/$1? [L,CO=prefer_full_site:false:.example.com:840]
# Redirect Mobile users to m. based on user agent
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "android|blackberry|googlebot-mobile|iemobile|ipad|iphone|ipod|opera mobile|palmos|webos" [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !prefer_full_site=true
RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://m.example.com/ [L,R=302]
# Page Caching
RewriteRule ^/$ /cache/index.html [QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ /cache/$1.html [QSA]
# Rewrite Logging (Can be commented out once you verify it works)
RewriteLog /var/sites/mysite/log/rewrite.log
RewriteLogLevel 9
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/var/www/vhosts/examplesite/public"
ServerName m.example.com
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/$ /mobile_cache/index.html [QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ /mobile_cache/$1.html [QSA]
RailsEnv production
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/var/www/vhosts/examplesite/public"
ServerName cms.example.com
RailsEnv production
</VirtualHost>
Here is a sample apache.conf file for testing browsercms locally. The only thing that should need to be changed is the path to where the project root is, i.e.
/Users/username/projects/your_site/public
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/Users/username/projects/your_site/public"
ServerName www.mobile.local
RailsEnv production
RewriteEngine On
# Set a 'full site' cookie if the user wants to stay on the full site. (2 weeks cookie by default)
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} prefer_full_site=true
RewriteRule ^/?(.*)$ http://www.mobile.local/$1? [L,CO=prefer_full_site:true:.mobile.local:840]
# If the user wants the mobile site, set the cookie, redirect and stop.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} prefer_mobile_site=true
RewriteRule ^/?(.*)$ http://m.mobile.local/$1? [L,CO=prefer_full_site:false:.mobile.local:840]
# Redirect Mobile users to m. based on user agent
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "android|blackberry|googlebot-mobile|iemobile|ipad|iphone|ipod|opera mobile|palmos|webos" [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !prefer_full_site=true
RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://m.mobile.local/ [L,R=302]
# Page Caching
RewriteRule ^/$ /cache/index.html [QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ /cache/$1.html [QSA]
# Cache Logging (Not strictly necessary)
RewriteLog /Users/username/projects/your_site/log/rewrite.log
RewriteLogLevel 9
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/Users/username/projects/your_site/public"
ServerName m.mobile.local
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/$ /mobile_cache/index.html [QSA]
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ /mobile_cache/$1.html [QSA]
RailsEnv production
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/Users/username/projects/your_site/public"
ServerName cms.mobile.local
RailsEnv production
</VirtualHost>