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Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 17:11:04 -0800 (PST)
From: "E�l" <eol1@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: using www and non-www address - how to set-up?
To: users@httpd.apache.org, jfield@aaaq.com
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In your vhost options set:

ServerName: domain.com
ServerAlias: *.domain.com

cheers

E�l

--- Jeff Field <jfield@aaaq.com> wrote:
> Problem:
> 
> I want to set up virtual websites all using the same
> IP address.  I want
> people to reach the websites with either domain
> address, for example:
> 
> domain.com
> www.domain.com
> 
> Question 1:
> 
> Do I need to set up a virtual domain in Apache for
> each domain?  (I assume I
> would just use the same document root for each). 
> Or, is there a more
> elegant solution?
> 
> Also, because an SSL certificate is only good for a
> specific domain, instead
> of having to purchase two certificates, one for
> domain.com and one for
> www.domain.com, I thought the better approach is to
> have the domain.com
> address always change/default to www.domain.com. 
> Then, I only need to
> utilize one SSL certificate.
> 
> IOW, if a person types in domain.com to reach the
> website, when they get the
> page, the address they got the page from is
> www.domain.com.
> 
> Question 2:
> 
> Assuming I've explained well enough what I'm trying
> to accomplish (to have
> pages always returned from www.domain.com, even
> sub-home/index pages), what
> is the best way to handle this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
>
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