> Not sure what you mean by crash... If I put "ServerAlias *" into httpd.conf and try to restart Apache, it will not start. There's no error log as to why it will not start.
> The first-listed vhost in a set of namevirtualhosts is the default. Agreed. However it was said: > You can't make the catch-all vhost also be a reachable name-based > vhost, with those rewrite rules. Create an addl one solely > for that purpose. In order to have a "catch all" vhost that redirects all hostnames to another vhost we must capture everything with a ServerAlias. There's no other way. Why is this needed? As you know, Google will consider delisting you if you have two domains serving up the exact same content. They consider it spamming the 'net. It's easy for this to happen accidentally - for us we created an A Record for performance.mydomain.com and pointed it to our production web host IP address for some testing. Google somehow found it and reindexed our whole site on that domain name. Essentially Google had two copies of our site in the search results. Ugh. Upon further inspection, we found there were other A Records which were showing duplicate content because of wildcards in place like *.mycompany.com or just because we forgot to remove them. With several hundred domain names, and a httpd.conf file several thousand lines long, it's easy to lose track. In other words, the "catch all" vhost is needed when an unknown number of hostnames are pointing at a server and it's desired that they all resolve successfully yet redirect to the proper domain name so there's no duplicate content issues. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
