On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Andrew Pennebaker <[email protected]> wrote: > > If we can't control htaccess settings, we can still add an index.html file > that redirects to www.vim.org. > > Example: > > http://stackoverflow.com/a/5411567/350106
Without a DNS A record pointing to *something*, there's no way to serve anything for `vim.org` without client-side modifications. > Given that vim.org is hosted on SourceForge, we could even redirect to the > SourceForge project page. That would still be better than 404'ing. I haven't checked, but presumably SourceForge's hosting has the same issue as Heroku at this point with hosting apex domains (i.e. there's probably not a stable IP or set of IPs to point to¹, and you can't CNAME an apex domain²). I forgot that I did this last time the issue came up (three years ago, uggh), but I still have a redirector set up and ready to go. Point `vim.org` to 64.130.10.15 and it'll work. There's nothing to say an apex domain has to be hosted at the same server as `www`. e.g. ``` $ curl --resolve vim.org:80:64.130.10.15 -i 'http://vim.org/whatever?with-params' HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 20:08:37 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.27 Location: http://www.vim.org/whatever?with-params Content-Length: 247 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <html><head> <title>301 Moved Permanently</title> </head><body> <h1>Moved Permanently</h1> <p>The document has moved <a href="http://www.vim.org/whatever?with-params";>here</a>.</p> </body></html> ``` -- Best, Ben ¹: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/apex-domains - can't use A records for apex domains on Heroku ²: http://blog.dnsimple.com/2011/11/introducing-alias-record/ - why ALIAS/ANAME records were created https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200169056-Does-CloudFlare-support-CNAME-APEX-at-the-root- - CloudFlare handles apex CNAMEs (in opposition to RFCs) -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
