Seems like that would be an unnecessary administrative headache. Why can't he just have a regex rule that says if the host is xxxxxxxx.tld then redirect to www.xxxxxxxx.tld?
Sent from my iPhone On Jan 19, 2011, at 10:43 AM, Caleb Call <[email protected]> wrote: > The only way DNS could do it is to setup a wildcard DNS and to have all your > subdomains with different IPs. DNS is not the place to do it. > > To do the rewrite, you need to setup a rules that says, if it doesn't match X > (which includes a list of all you subdomains) then rewrite to www.domain.com. > Instead of a rule trying to match. You'll still need a wildcard DNS entry > though. I'll send an example in a second. > > > On Jan 19, 2011, at 10:35 AM, Chad Sollis wrote: > >> using everydns, is that possible? >> >> I like that route, however, I also like being able to control it on the >> server so I do not have to update every domain in dns. >> >> (although I am curious if everydns can do that) >> >> ~Chad >> >> >> On Jan 19, 2011, at 10:31 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Why not just use DNS? instead of mod rewrite? Sorry if I missed >>> previous info. >>> >>> Trevyn >>> >>> On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:24:00 -0700, Chad Sollis <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> Thanks Brian, >>>> >>>> sorry for not being totally clear. What I want it to do is actually >>>> anything without a subdomain, to redirect to www.domain.com if it has >>>> a subdomain, it will be ignored. Good catch on the QSA. >>>> >>>> how would you change the rule to match according to that objective? >>>> >>>> thanks >>>> >>>> ~Chad >>>> >>>> >>>> On Jan 19, 2011, at 1:00 AM, Bryan Petty wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Chad Sollis <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> Hey there... to the tune of Wade's request yesterday, trying to make >>>>>> that a wildcard option, can anyone provide some insight, its not >>>>>> redirecting as desired :) >>>>>> >>>>>> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} >>>>>> ^((?!\.).)*\.(com|net|org|ws|biz|ws|us|info|mobi|me)$ [NC] >>>>>> RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%1.%2/$1 [L,R=301] >>>>> >>>>> Are you really just trying to match _ANYTHING_ that doesn't have "www" >>>>> and redirect it to the "www" equivalent? That's what it looks like, >>>>> and you didn't explain how you want it to work. >>>>> >>>>> This seems like a really bad architectural decision if that's the >>>>> case, but if that's what you're going for, just check if it has the >>>>> "www" prefix, and if it doesn't, then redirect. Then, since you're >>>>> working towards such a wide matching constraint, you might as well >>>>> make sure it handles SSL and also query strings too, like so: >>>>> >>>>> RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =off >>>>> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC] >>>>> RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [L,R=301,QSA] >>>>> RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =on >>>>> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC] >>>>> RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [L,R=301,QSA] >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> Bryan Petty >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> >>>> UPHPU mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu >>>> IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> UPHPU mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu >> IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net > > > _______________________________________________ > > UPHPU mailing list > [email protected] > http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu > IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
