Just for my own servers, I usually create a default vhost and use
mod_rewrite to send all requests to this script (simplified for post here).
<?php
> header("HTTP/1.1 418 I'm a teapot");
> ?>
> <h1>I'm a teapot.</h1>
> <p>Well actually, I am a server, but I know about as much about what you
> requested as a teapot would. Please check your request and try again.</p>
Not exactly what you are looking for, but fun.
It is also easy to find in the logs because NOTHING uses that status.
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On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Stefan Fritsch <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> for setups that only use virtual hosts, it can be useful to deny
> requests in the main server context with a meaningful error message.
> This can make debugging configuration errors much easier.
>
> AFAICS, there is no easy way to achieve this. Or did I miss something?
> Any opinions about adding a new config directive for this purpose? If
> yes, how should this be named? AllowNonVHostRequests (with a default
> of 'yes')?
>
> An alternative would be to expose server_rec->is_virtual in the
> expressoin parser and have the admin add an appropriate <If> section
> to deny access. However this has higher overhead at run time and the
> error message in the log would be less descriptive.
>
> Cheers,
> Stefan
>
>
