On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Lester Caine <lester@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> OK ... I've always set the server up so that both xxx.co.uk and
> www.xxx.co.uk are processed, but the 'quality police' are now flagging this
> as wrong, and saying that one or the other should be 'returned' by the site.
> Since some sites also have xxx.com or other options this does make sense,
> the question is how?
>
> I'm already using rewrite to keep the wingers happy on 'tidy url's' and that
> works well, and if I am readying things correctly 'Redirect' should handle
> the domain? But it does not seem to work. I assume that this needs to be
> handled inside the <VirtualHost> for it to correctly map what is listed in
> the ServerAlias to match the ServerName entry?
>
> What IS the politically correct way of handling this?
>
I know of two ways :)
1) Use two vhosts and a redirect:
<VirtualHost *>
ServerName www.canonicalsitename.com
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *>
ServerName analias.canonicalsitename.com
ServerAlias *.canonicalsitename.com
Redirect / http://www.canoncialsitename.com/
</VirtualHost>
2) Use one vhost and a rewrite rule:
<VirtualHost *>
ServerName www.canonicalsitename.com
ServerName analias.canonicalsitename.com
ServerAlias *.canonicalsitename.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.canonicalsitename.com$
RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://www.canonicalsitename/$1 [R=301,L]
</VirtualHost>
Tapped all that out, and THEN remembered that this is a FAQ:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/rewrite/remapping.html#canonicalhost
Cheers
Tom
PS: the same Lester Caine who posts on the register boards?
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