Admin Attention

[Supra]

If you mistype the subdomain, you get a freaky message. :aigo:

http://ww.supramania.com/
http://wwww.supramania.com/

Delete this thread if fixed please & thanks.

 

[lagged]

heh fixed? it should stay there. the message i get from that is, only man is(can be) evil, money can not.

 

[GrimJack]

Pretty certain that's on purpose.

We are hosted by a member, so this is only one site on his box. Any mistypes in the URL will take you to some other place on his box, and it's his right to set up that place any way he wants to.

 

[Fuzz420]

Very Interesting Read right there, and i agree with lagged thats the message i get.

 

[SupraMario]

^^ yep i read it too
very interesting.

 

[Supracentral]

Heh.

I own the server. This is an Apache 2.0 box running with 'named based virtual hosting'.

I've got many many sites running on one of the boxes IP's. (I've actually got multiple IP's, but I've never found Supramania needed a dedicated one - I tend to save those for business related stuff...)

Anyway, the way name based vhosting works is that when you type in a URL, like http://www.supramania.com, Apache parses it and says "do I know where this is on my filesystem?" - if it does, it sends you there. If it doesn't it sends you to the default webpage on the server, which I happen to have loading a snippet from Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged".

(As a side note I feel that the text on that page contains more truth than you are likely to find in as many words elsewhere, I suggest giving it a read if you haven't.)

Sometimes you have to put up with stuff like this when you get your hosting donated by an evil capitalist bastard... :biglaugh:

 

[Jeff Lange]

Is there no way to do a wildcard virtual host setup. I can't recall if/how to do that in Apache anymore, but I'm pretty sure I used to have it setup.

 

[lagged]

named based virtual hosting is one of my FAVORITE features of apache.

 

[Jeff Lange]

Just googled it, and remembered the ServerAlias directive (used within a <VirtualHost [..]> section), can allow wildcards.

Example:

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName supramania.com
ServerAlias supramania.com *.supramania.com
DocumentRoot /www/public_html/
</VirtualHost>

See.

 

[lagged]

Just googled it, and remembered the ServerAlias directive (used within a <VirtualHost [..]> section), can allow wildcards.

Example:

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName supramania.com
[B]ServerAlias supramania.com *.supramania.com[/B]
DocumentRoot /www/public_html/
</VirtualHost>

See.

that is what is probably exactly in SMs apache config file.

 

[Jeff Lange]

no it's not, if it was, ww.supramania.com would go to the actual supramania site.

 

[Supracentral]

Heh...

Sorry you guys wasted time researching that, I already knew about those directives. I generally don't use them, for several reasons that are too long to go into here.

If it really wads everyone's panties up that much, I'll put them in....

 

[shaeff]

i've come across that before, just never said anything. it's definately an interesting read.

-shaeff

 

[Jeff Lange]

Heh...

Sorry you guys wasted time researching that, I already knew about those directives. I generally don't use them, for several reasons that are too long to go into here.

If it really wads everyone's panties up that much, I'll put them in....

Nah it's fine, I knew about them too, just couldn't remember them. It's a good thing I looked them up finally, because I had wanted to for a while (plus it came up in the 1st result in Google I believe).

 

[lagged]

no it's not, if it was, ww.supramania.com would go to the actual supramania site.

heh brain fart. i ment its aliased to anything.supramania.com goes to that passage.
see?