Hi!
I originally set my virtual host up like this in my httpd.conf file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
....
ServerName www.example.com
ServerAlias example.com
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]
</VirtualHost>
Running curl to check the setup I get:
[$] curl example.com
Result:
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>301 Moved Permanently</title>
...
<h1>Moved Permanently</h1>
<p>The document has moved <a href="http://www.example.com//";>here</a>.</p>
...
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As you can see from the link "The document has moved . . . ", href is set to:
href="http://www.example.com//";,
i.e. with TWO slashes after and not ONE slash.
To fix it i changed the RewriteRule
From:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]
To:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com$1 [L,R=301]
and now the "301 Moved Permanently" HTML page gives:
The document has moved <a href="http://www.example.com/";>here</a>
Question 1)
Are there any problems running a):
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com$1 [L,R=301]
Rather than b):
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]
?
Will e.g. a slash always be added as a part of $1 in a) if it exists in the
original url query (as caught by the RewriteCond shown above)?
Question 2)
Is the method I use to alias "example.com" with "www.example.com",
a good way to set up a ServerAlias in my httpd.conf file, or are there better
ways?
My current method, as mentioned above, is:
ServerName www.example.com
ServerAlias example.com
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com$1 [L,R=301]
Thanks for any input!
Richard Taubo
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