On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 2:28 AM, Nils Jeppe <nils@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Viv D-F wrote: > > > I figure this is a fairly common problem, but I haven't been able to find > > any examples of how this is usually done. I'm not convinced that this is > > best done in the Apache config. Is this done at the DNS instead? > > There are, I think, three ways to do this. The first is what you're > thinking of, find an example here: > > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/rewrite/rewrite_guide.html#canonicalhost > > Secondly, setting "UseCanonicalName on" may work to redirect you to the > correct hostname. I never use this myself, but I remember vaguely that it > does something like this. I am not entirely sure of course, but you could > easily test it yourself: No, that won't work. (I've always though it would be nice to have a "UseCanonicalName enforce" which would do exactly that, but it doesn't exist.) > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#usecanonicalname > > Thirdly, you could simply add one or more extra virtualhost(s) which takes > care of all the "extra" hostnames and do a simple RedirectPermanent / > http://site1.com/ or something similar in its configuration. This last > solution is especially useful if you'd like to easily log the access / > referrers to the "unwanted" site names. Right. Both of your solutions are discussed in detail here: http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/CanonicalHostNames Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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