Fix for forums.skylinesaustralia.com

[funkymonkey]

Enable mod_rewite in httpd.conf in your apache config.

in the .htaccess file in the root dir put

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(forums|forum)?.skylinesaustralia.com$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ [url=http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/$1]http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/$1[/url] [R=301,L]

What this will do is redirect whoever types in forums.skylinesaustralia.com/whatever or forum.skylinesaustralia.com/whatever to www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/whatever

You can do a whole shiteload of funky stuff with mod_rewrite, including making the whole forum indexable by search engines directly (ie they won't have to search thru archived pages).

[ferni]

hahaha wtf is http://forums.skylinesaustralia.com/

you could just stick it in the httpd.conf instead of messing with htaccess

[funkymonkey]

yeah that too. I'm assuming that the server's used to co host saunsw.com etc.

don't you have to restart apache if you use httpd.conf every time you make a new rewrite rule?

[ferni]

funky: true you do need to restart apache if you make changes to httpd.conf, but if he needs to enable mod_rewrite he'll need to restart it anyway

and your right it does look like it co-hosts saunsw.com, but don't see how that makes much difference, cept when he restarts apache, both will go down for a few moments

[funkymonkey]

but you can enable once, restart once then update .htaccess and not have to restart

as opposed to restarting everythime you update httpd

[PranK]

what the hell are you guys talking about?

[PranK]

btw forums.skylinesaustralia.com works.

[funkymonkey]

*coff* http://forums.skylinesaustralia.com/forumd...display.php?f=7 *coff*

or what if someone types in forum.skylinesaustralia.com

[ferni]

forums.skylinesaustralia.com gave me some wierd messed up page the other day

[Merli]

mod_rewrite... One of the best apache tools

And I agree with using the .htaccess file for the above, that's what it's for. Otherwise you'd have to restart apache for every change. Might not make a difference with SAU, but on a commercial site, that's something to be avoided at all costs.

[ferni]

But you would have to setup apaches virtualhost for any subdomain you want to rewrite anyway, which requires a restart.

Why not put the re-write rule in the virutalhost declaration?

[Merli]

......... not if the subdomain is already setup like in this example?