Re: [users@httpd] cleanest/fastest way of redirecting aliases to canonical server names

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uh...@fantomas.sk>]

On 29.01.11 02:38, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> I'm having a vhost, which is reachable via one canonical name, e.g.
> example.org, and also via several aliases, e.g. www.example.org,
> example.com, etc.
> 
> I want that whenever requests are made via one of the aliases, that
> those are redirected to the canonical name.
> 
> 
> IMHO there are about the following two ways:
> 1)
> - one vhost, which has the canonical name as ServerName, and the aliases
> as ServerAliases
> - and also has some RewriteCond+RewriteRules, making a redirect to the
> canonical address if HTTP_HOST is one of the aliases.
> 
> 
> 2)
> - two vhosts, the first having only the canonical name as ServerName (no
> ServerAlias)
> 
> - the second, having the aliases as ServerName/ServerAliases
> - and also doing a Redirect / http://example.org

3) use special modules as mod_redirtoservname (debian) or
mod_common_redirect (gentoo) that do this.
(unfortunately, the latter bugs on ssl sites)

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