On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 23:22 +0800, Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote:
> On 04/22/2009 11:11 PM, Tom Evans wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 22:30 +0800, Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote:
> >
> >> On 04/22/2009 10:17 PM, Eric Covener wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Basil Mohamed Gohar
> >>> <abu_huray...@hidayahonline.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>> Outside of htaccess, the pattern is compiled at startup, so you can't
> >>>>> use variables (because they depend on parts of the request, even
> >>>>> ServerName).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> IIUC It's feasible in per-directory, but not implemented.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>> So, what this means is it's not possible as it stands right now, correct?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> Correct. You can usually get to the same ultimate result by putting
> >>> the variables in the 2nd argument and being more clever with captures
> >>> and multiple conditions, etc.
> >>>
> >>> If you can describe what your end goal is, someone here might be able
> >>> to help construct a ruleset.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Thanks. It's quite simple, actually. What I want to do is direct all
> >> domains that fall under a virtualhost which has many server aliases to
> >> one canonical domain.
> >>
> >> So, for example, if my canonical name is www.example.com, and someone
> >> accesses example.com or example.net (all of which are aliases in
> >> VirtualHost block), I want a redirect to be issued pointing to the
> >> canonical ServerName value (www.example.com). Since this is already
> >> stored in %{SERVER_NAME}, I thought it would be best to use it, because
> >> I have this kind of behavior on many, but not all, VirtualHosts. It
> >> would save me a lot of time.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www.foo.com)$
> > RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://www.foo.com/$1 [R=301,L]
> >
> > This is an FAQ iirc?
> >
> > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/rewrite/rewrite_guide.html#canonicalhost
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Tom
> >
> Writing it by hand for all the different VirtualHosts is what I was
> trying to avoid. Doing it with variables was the goal, and it seems
> that is not possible. I've been writing it by hand for years now. ;)
Ah yes, that is different. I actually wrote a module to manage this for
my servers (the canonical rewrite rule doesn't work in certain edge
cases), it doesn't detect it automatically based upon the vhosts
ServerName (it uses a directive), but that should certainly be possible.
Let me have a look this evening...
Cheers
Tom
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