Re: [cobalt-users] maybe somebody knows how to enable the wildcards on the raq3

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> hi, everybody, maybe you have already seen, that if you
> type yourdomain.com, and this domain name will be
> changed to www.yourdomain.com...
> if you make the dns that yourdomain.com points to one ip,
> and www.yourdomain.com poits to another ip.
> that will be very funny...you type yourdomain.com and
> link to the another ip...
> 
> maybe somebody knows hot to prevent it.

Here's how I prevent it:

I find these lines in the relevent virtual host section of
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}                !^222.111.111.222(:80)?$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}                !^www.domain.com(:80)?$
RewriteRule ^/(.*)                      http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R]
RewriteOptions inherit

And change them as follows:

#RewriteEngine on
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}                !^222.111.111.222(:80)?$
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}                !^www.domain.com(:80)?$
#RewriteRule ^/(.*)                      http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R]
#RewriteOptions inherit

Of course commenting them out like this also breaks siteadmin and
useradmin, but I don't like them anyway <smile>.

Jeff
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