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Apache 2

2014-01-01 23:50:06.978299+01 by Dan Lyke 3 comments

Apache 2.2 to 2.4 upgrade. VirtualHost directives w/o "www." prefix not working. No help in upgrade guide. Argh.

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#Comment Re: made: 2014-01-02 00:15:46.493053+01 by: meuon

Typically, ServerAlias takes care of that for me... on version 2.2.x as in ServerAlias domain.ext wwww.domain.ext no clue yet in 2.4.x

#Comment Re: made: 2014-01-02 00:25:42.765823+01 by: spc476 [edit history]

I always use the IP address in a VirtualHost directive (along with the port number). Sure, it's a pain if the server changes IP, but I'm not dependent upon DNS either.

It looks like:

<VirutalHost 66.252.224.242:80>
  ServerName conman.org
  Redirect permanent / http://www.conman.org/
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 66.252.224.242:80>
  ServerName www.conman.org
  ...
</VirtualHost>

#Comment Re: made: 2014-01-02 17:26:22.44444+01 by: Dan Lyke

Turns out it was a misleading symptom (yes, damn it, you could resolve the virtual domain, you just couldn't figure out what to do with a request to that domain) and a boneheaded change in how mod_rewrite handles the base portion of the request.

Grrr...

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