Server tweaking

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Just to let you know, I'm tweaking some server config files through-out the day - that is, when I get some spare time.

You shouldn't have or see any problems, of course it could all go horribly wrong 

/pokes the server with a big stick

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Bah! Didn't work, was trying to get http://www.warcraft-prophecy.net to redirect onto http://warcraft-prophecy.net.

Which would resolve a prob with people using www. and getting errors. Oh well, back to the 'drawing board'.

[ph]

mod_rewrite maybe?

BR,
Ph.

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mod_rewrite maybe?

BR,
Ph.

Was having a look into that, but confused me a bit - most of the rewrites I've see are for domain.net rewriting to www.domain.net, whereas I want it to go the other way round. I hardly ever write htaccess files so not too familiar with why there are several different ways to write the file, that is, the regular expression.

It's probably all easy, just that I prefer to understand everything that the expression is looking for, rather than simply reading 'this works'

[ph]

Hmm, I'm sure mod_rewrite would do the trick here. You should use HTTP_HOST www.warcraft-prophecy.net as a condition and set a rewrite rule like ^.*$ to http://warcraft-prophecy.net.

I can't remember the exact syntax but it would be something like:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} www.warcraft-prophecy.net
RewriteRule ^.*$ http://warcraft-prophecy.net [with some options here].

If you want to have deep understanding of this module there's a good documentation and guide with examples on httpd.apache.org.

And about htaccess file - to be honest I've never used mod_rewrite with .htaccess. I worked with apache config file, although it should work with .htaccess as long as the module is loaded by the apache server.

Hope this helps,
Ph.

PS. I don't get any error message when I visit www.warcraft-prophecy.net ;-).

PS2. mod_rewrite is rather heavy tool, I think there could be some Apache directives like "Alias" which could also do the trick, but I'm not sure about it.