Re: Apache 2.2 rewrite rule help needed

[Bob Cox <news@bobcox.com>]

In article <[🔎] 20070624095129.GB899@hummingbird.wingbarscafe.com>,
Jim Seymour <jim@wingbarscafe.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Running Apache 2.2 on Debian testing and having no luck getting a
> rewrite rule to work. Straight out of the rewrite guide I am trying the
> following to force the domain name to always be displayed as
> www.domain.com even when it is accessed as domain.com.
>
> RewriteEngine on
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domain\.com [NC]
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
> RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R]
>
> I have tried many variations of this rule in both the apache virtual
> configuration as well as an .htaccess file. I have verified via a dump
> of the modules loaded that the rewrite module is loaded. The Options
> FollowSymLinks is set and AllowOverride is set to FileInfo. I know the
> .htaccess file is being read because I can put trash in it and it will
> result in an Internal Server Error. Once the garbage is removed I can
> load the web page without error. The rewrite rule never has an effect
> and never gives any errors. Ideas?

I am not sure if this helps as I do the opposite, i.e. change all
www.domain.com requests to domain.com.  I do it two ways.  On my own
Apache server I do it this way:

<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot /srv/www/htdocs/domain.com
ServerName domain.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot /srv/www/htdocs/domain.com
ServerName www.domain.com
Redirect / http://domain.com/
</VirtualHost>

and on a paid for hosting account using Rewrite (in a .htaccess file)
this also works, but, again, to do the opposite of what you want:

RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^www\.domain\.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

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