Forcing to www.

But what about 192.168.0.1?

[ahmedtheking]

I'm forcing viewers of my web site from mysite.com to www.mysite.com (im not blocking mysite.com, just directing them to www) for SSL reasons. However, locally, when I access the site via 192.168.0.1, I'm forced to, you guessed it, www.192.168.0.1! How can I stop this?

[LifeinAsia]

Check the server name when doing the redirect. If the servername is the IP address, don't do the redirect.

[ahmedtheking]

How can I do that in htaccess?

[jdMorgan]

Please post the relevant code so we can look at it.

Jim

[ahmedtheking]

Ok, here it is:

RewriteRule ^account(.*)?$ [%{HTTP_HOST}...] [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^contact(.*)?$ [%{HTTP_HOST}...] [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^phpmyadmin(.*)?$ [%{HTTP_HOST}...] [QSA,L]

[phranque]

maybe you could add a RewriteCond to prevent implementation of this RewriteRule when the HTTP_HOST is numeric.
(i.e. a pattern that looks like an ip address)

and i'm sure jim will have a say about that ambiguous, greedy, and promiscuous ".*" usage.
=8)

[jdMorgan]

RewriteCond ${HTTP_HOST} !^192.168.0.1$
RewriteRule ^((account¦contact¦phpmyadmin).*)$ https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

Replace all broken pipe "¦" characters in the code below with solid pipes before use; Posting on this forum modifies the pipe characters.

Jim

[edited by: jdMorgan at 2:12 am (utc) on Jan. 5, 2007]

[ahmedtheking]

I'll try that out!

[ahmedtheking]

Worked, but had to tweek it, here's the revised edition:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}!^192\.168\.1\.11$
RewriteRule ^((account¦contact¦phpmyadmin).*)$ [%{HTTP_HOST}...] [R=301,QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^192\.168\.1\.11$
RewriteRule ^((account¦contact¦phpmyadmin).*)$ [%{HTTP_HOST}...] [R=301,QSA,L]

Cheers everyone!

[jdMorgan]

If you'd like to shorten/simplify it a bit:

# If local IP
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^192\.168\.1\.11$
RewriteRule ^((account¦contact¦phpmyadmin).*)$ https://192.168.0.1/$1 [R=301,L]
# Else not local
RewriteRule ^((account¦contact¦phpmyadmin).*)$ https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

Here, we redirect to [192.....] if the request is from 192..
Otherwise, the request must not be from 192.., so we can switch to the [....] server without having to check the HTTP_HOST again.

Note that neither this nor the code in the previous posts would work if the both HTTP and HTTPS servers were in the same host container; In that case, it would be necessary to check the HTTPS/HTTP status for both rules before redirecting in order to avoid an 'infinite' redirection loop from HTTPS to HTTPS.

There is no need to use [QSA] unless you are Appending something new to the existing Query String. If you don't append something new, then the original query is passed through the rules unchanged by default.

Jim

[ahmedtheking]

Oh I thought QSA passes the query sent to, say, bool.php?lalalala to newbool.php?lalalala through .htaccess?

[jdMorgan]

Yes and no. But this passing-through of the query is the default behaviour of RewriteRule. You have to take steps to stop it from happening if you *don't* want to pass the query string.

[QSA] is only needed if you want to Append more query name/value pairs to a URL with a pre-existing query string using RewriteRule.

In the case of the code above, [QSA] does nothing but waste disk space and CPU time. It will work exactly the same with or without [QSA].

See the description of [QSA] in the Flags section of the mod_rewrite documentation, following the description of RewriteRule.

Jim

[ahmedtheking]

I get it, so passing bool.php?lalala to newbool.php?lalala&$1 (to include the vars of the 1st one)

[jdMorgan]

Replace original query with new query
Requested URL: example.com/bool.php?fa&la
Rule: RewriteRule ^bool\.php$ /newbool.php?na [L]
Resulting URL: example.com/newbool.php?na

Append new query to original query
Requested URL: example.com/bool.php?fa&la
Rule: RewriteRule ^bool\.php$ /newbool.php?na [QSA,L]
Resulting URL: example.com/newbool.php?fa&la&na

Remove original query
Requested URL: example.com/bool.php?fa&la
Rule: RewriteRule ^bool\.php$ /newbool.php? [L]
Resulting URL: example.com/newbool.php

Retain original query (default behaviour)
Requested URL: example.com/bool.php?fa&la
Rule: RewriteRule ^bool\.php$ /newbool.php [L]
Resulting URL: example.com/newbool.php?fa&la

Jim

[ahmedtheking]

Cool beans man, thanks!