For this you use mod_rewrite.

Example#

In your 000-default file, for apache put

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/gitweb/([a-zA-Z0-9_\-]+\.git)/?(\?.*)?$ /cgi/bin/gitweb.cgi/$1 [PT]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedBurner
RewriteRule ^/dsawiki/rss\.rdf$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/dsawiki [R]
RewriteRule ^/foobar$ http://host.domain.com:8100/admin [R]
RewriteRule ^/$ /dsawiki [R]

Alias /gitweb /var/path/to/git/repos

Explanations#

RewriteEngine on#

The first line enables mod_rewrite. You also must put it in mods-enabled. See apache docs for this.

Gitweb#

The second line (RewriteRule) allows you to use http://host.domain.com/gitweb/ to point to your repositories. The Alias line at the bottom is also needed.

This line ends in [PT] which stands for "passthrough" (pass through to next handler). It enables post-processing of the output of RewriteRule directives using Alias, ScriptAlias, and Redirect.

RewriteCond HTTP_USER_AGENT#

This line prevents the next line from operating if the HTTP_USER_AGENT is FeedBurner. Basically, if you subscribe to my blog, you actually subscribe through FeedBurner. I of course don't want FeedBurner getting forwarded back to itself.

RewriteRule dsawiki/rss#

If you are not FeedBurner, then any requests to /dsawiki/rss.rdf get forwarded to FeedBurner. This ends in [R] because that's the end of the rule.

RewriteRule /foobar#

Going to http://host.mydomain.com/foobar will redirect to http://host.domain.com:8100.admin. This is so people can go to a meaningful url instead of a port and /admin to see a Django admin panel.

RewriteRule /dsawiki#

This line forwards requests from http://domain.com to http://domain.com/dsawiki