On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Richard Taubo <o...@bergersen.no> wrote: > Thanks! > > So to be 110% clear, since this is kind of important to get right :-) > > 1) So either this – leave off the / from the end of the rewritten URL: > RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com$1 [L,R=301] > > 2) Or this – not capture the slash from the original URL: > RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301] > > 3) But not this – as was the alternative I started out with (the browsers I > have tested > do not seem mind, but the rewrite logs shows that an extra slash is added): > RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301] > >>> >>> Question 2) >>> Is the method I use to alias "example.com" with "www.example.com", >>> a good way to set up a ServerAlias in my httpd.conf file, or are there >>> better ways? >>> My current method, as mentioned above, is: >>> ServerName www.example.com >>> ServerAlias example.com >>> RewriteEngine On >>> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC] >>> RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com$1 [L,R=301] >>> >> >> It's fine. Some people prefer to have the host name canonicalization >> occur in a separate vhost, as this separates the configuration for the >> 'correct' hostname from the configuration for 'incorrect' hostnames. > > So instead of: > <VirtualHost *:80> > .... > ServerName www.example.com > ServerAlias example.com > RewriteEngine On > RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC] > RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com$1 [L,R=301] > </VirtualHost> > > They would rather create two VirtualHosts like this instead: > <VirtualHost *:80> > .... > ServerName www.example.com > .... > </VirtualHost> > > <VirtualHost *:80> > .... > ServerName example.com > RewriteEngine On > RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com$1 [L,R=301] > .... > </VirtualHost> > > > Appreciate your answers! > > Richard Taubo
Yep, precisely. Personally I do option 2 for the first question, and multiple vhosts for the second question (but a single vhost is also perfectly fine). Cheers Tom --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
