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So I was trying to solve a weird redirect issue: Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error.

I found this site, which had quite alot of info.

One tip I really liked was:

Cache-Friendly File Names

This is probably my favorite, and I use it on every site I work on. It allows me to update my javascript and css files in my visitors cache’s simply by naming them differently in the html, on the server they stay the same name. This rewrites all files for /zap/j/anything-anynumber.js to /zap/j/anything.js and /zap/c/anything-anynumber.css to /zap/c/anything.css

RewriteRule ^zap/(j|c)/([a-z]+)-([0-9]+)\.(js|css)$ /zap/$1/$2.$4 [L]

As with alot of devs out there, I have a couple of virtual hosts setup. It is rather annoying to keep updating the /etc/hosts file. I came across “42foo: all the virtual hosts you need for your web development” which has helped alot. But this was not enough, the virtual hosts are still static, then I found “Dynamically Configured Mass Virtual Hosting“.

So now I have the following setup:

/etc/dnsmasq.conf

no-resolv
server=<DNSSERVER>
address=/.local/<DEVSERVERIP>
no-hosts

/etc/apache2/conf.d/multi_vhost (on the devserver)

# get the server name from the Host: header
UseCanonicalName Off

# this log format can be split per-virtual-host based on the first field
LogFormat "%V %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %s %b" vcommon
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/vhost_access_log vcommon

# include the server name in the filenames used to satisfy requests
VirtualDocumentRoot /var/www/%0/

<Directory /var/www/>
 AllowOverride All
 Order allow,deny
 Allow from all
</Directory>

Apache requires the mod_vhost_alias module to be loaded.

And this is it, all that is needed now is to have a symlink/directory in /var/www/ with the name of the virtualhost pointing to the document root of the dev site.

EG: /var/www/test.local -> /home/<user>/Development/test/webroot/

So now no more editing multiple files, all I need is to create a symlink and sorted

P.S. I did find that the Avahi daemon was causing issues see Bug #80900…

To disable the Avahi daemon:

sudo invoke-rc.d avahi-daemon stop
sudo update-rc.d -f avahi-daemon remove

UPDATE: I needed to add the directory clause to multi_vhost as I needed to use .htaccess files
UPDATE 2: There was also an issue with mod_rewrite (Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error.) This was only happening to sites with a .htaccess. The solution was to add:

RewriteBase /