how to create a VirtualHost to serve only static content

Question

I want to create a virtual host in apache such that it serves only static content like stylesheets, videos, images, javascripts, text files, etc. I am not looking at any "processing" capabilities from this virtual host.

Mucro

To extend the question, a good answer would include directives "to inform the browser to keep files in its own cache" and "to have be cookieless requests". – Rowdyism

Answer 1

Create a VirtualHost entry as follows:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    ServerName media.domain.tld

    DocumentRoot "/Library/WebServer/Documents/media"

    ErrorLog "/private/var/log/apache2/media-error_log"
    CustomLog "/private/var/log/apache2/media-access_log" common

    <Directory /Library/WebServer/Documents/media>
    Order deny,allow
    Allow from all
    SetHandler default-handler
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

Immaterialism

I removed the ServerAdmin, ServerName and all those lines pertaining to logs and then restarted apache. I observe it is serving php files – Mucro

@deostroll: I updatd my answer to fit your needs. – Immaterialism

it didn't work as expected. Do we still need the Location tag? – Mucro

@deostroll: you can remove Location, SetHandler can be placed inside the Directory tag, too. Change its value to default-handler. – Immaterialism