Yep,
I have a barebone (Roxen) virtualhost configured for a separate IP, with an
SHTML, which basically does what Rick said... with a 302 header (standard
http "error" code) as far as I remember.
- Csongor
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Macdougall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Marc Schneiders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "William X. Walsh"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "N.B. DelMore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: Re[2]: Domain Redirection & Cloaking
> Hi All,
>
> You don't need to do that at all :)
>
> Use the ErrorDocument (I'm sure thttp has the same thing) to redirect to a
> Perl or PHP script. Just parse out the HTTP ENV variables, get the host
> name it was trying to get and redirect.
>
> It's about a 4 line PHP script and I'm sure it's about the same in Perl.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rick
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marc Schneiders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "William X. Walsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "N.B. DelMore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 6:16 AM
> Subject: Re: Re[2]: Domain Redirection & Cloaking
>
>
> On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, William X. Walsh wrote:
>
> > Hello Marc,
> >
> > Tuesday, October 03, 2000, 2:53:30 AM, you wrote:
> >
> > > I would be interested to learn, what the advantages of this (or any)
> perl
> > > script are compared to the simple HTML I posted last night. I am sure
> > > there must be something or people wouldn't take all the trouble of
> writing
> > > perl :-)
> >
> > Because you would have to setup a virtual server host for each and
> > every site you want to redirect. This consumes huge resources once
> > you start to grow.
> >
> > Our system will use one virtual host for all redirection hosts. It
> > will be dependent on the http1.1 headers for virtual hosting, but the
> > number of non-supported users is so minuscule that it is
> > insignificant.
>
> Thanks. But this is Apache what you are talking about, right? Sorry, I
> should have mentioned I use Thttpd. Not very familiar with Apache. All I
> have to do, is add a directory in the htdocs directory: DOMAIN.COM. ln -s
> this to www.DOMAIN.COM and change title, keywords, and where to redirect
> to in the index.html template. This could all be scripted easily, if it
> needs to be done very frequently. But then maybe this is exactly what your
> script does? Anyway, not much extra resources used in my set up. Just a
> subdirectory and a little file.
>
> --
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