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I am running multiple sites on one server and am tired of seeing 404s coming from missing apple-touch-icons. I am required to have 6:
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Each "property" docroot I am hosting may, and probably will, have several sub-docroots all using the same apple touch icons as the parent so, this is what I want to do:

I have a common php file included in each apache configuration that knows the name of each property's name and sub-property's parent's names, which can be used in one single directory hosted on the server which will contain all of my apple-touch-icon images separated by directories named after the parent properties. In apache I can create an alias to this directory like so:

Alias /apple_touch_icons /var/www/common/apple_touch_icons/[enter property name here]/

But this won't be very dynamic so I want to move the directive into my common included php file and do the same thing, but with php instead. Is this possible?

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@R0bb0b

I have a common php file included in each apache configuration that knows the name of each property's name and sub-property's parent's names, which can be used in one single directory hosted on the server which will contain all of my apple-touch-icon images separated by directories named after the parent properties. In apache I can create an alias to this directory like so:

I got no idea what you are talking about? I know apple devices is written Objective-C. Can you provide a little more detail what is the issue plus some php code to at least start on. Right now, it's just guessing.

Is this local?

Read this:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/Apache

Edited by LastMitch because: grammer
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Long story short, I want to know if there is a php equivilent to an apache alias and I'm affraid the answer is no.

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The question you are asking is very rare that's why it hard understand or test out.

Read this if you have already have. I feel you did:

I agree, it is very rare. But it would be the perfect solution to a very rare problem that I have. Now that I think of it, I think this is turning into an apache question. I want to take the full path "/var/www/[property name]/site", extract the "[property name]" from that path and turn that into an apache alias like so:

Alias /apple_touch_icons /var/www/common/apple_touch_icons/[property name]/

I may need to go to the apache section and ask there.

EDIT: this would enable me to add this bit of apache configuration to all properties created by all developers, which would allow me to put these ipad/pod/phone icons all in one location rather than having these images all over the place. Hmm, there is no apache section, that's funny.

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This works and does exactly what I need it to do

AliasMatch ^/apple-touch-icon(.*)\.png /var/www/lib/icons/iconHandler.php

Thanks for the help.

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