Mongrel users - Oct 2007 - redirects with mongrel (dropping the www. from a url)

Hi All,

I have a rails app running on an apache virtual host with mongrel that
i want to set up a redirect from www.someapp.com to someapp.com
(dropping
the www.)

I have tried doing this in apache using a rewrite rule (below) which
worked before when the app was written in php.

  Redirect http://www.soccertackle.com/ http://soccertackle.com
  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteCond   %{HTTP_HOST}   !^soccertackle\.com [NC]
  RewriteCond   %{HTTP_HOST}   !^$
  RewriteRule   ^/(.*)         http://soccertackle.com/$1 [L,R]

Now the app has been completely re written in rails using mongrel &
apache (i don''t really understand much about web servers but mongrel
set up was nice and simple). However my redirect does not work any
longer. I cant seem to find any information on the web (which would
suggest i''m looking in the wrong places).

can anyone suggest a solution to my problem or point me in the right
direction?
please be gentle, as i mentioned before servers are not my strong
point.

Thank you.
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Not enough info to debug here, and whether it''s PHP vs. Mongrel shld be
irrelevant.

Short of that, here''s something that works.  If I state that the
backend
is Mongrel/Nitro will the moderator consider this on-topic? :)

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName soccertackle.com
  ServerAlias www.soccertackle.com
  RewriteEngine On

  RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} www.sockertackle.com
  RewriteRule ^.*$ http://sockertackle.com$1 [L,R]


James Bosworth wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a rails app running on an apache virtual host with mongrel that
> i want to set up a redirect from www.someapp.com to someapp.com
> (dropping
> the www.)
>
> I have tried doing this in apache using a rewrite rule (below) which
> worked before when the app was written in php.
>
>   Redirect http://www.soccertackle.com/ http://soccertackle.com
>   RewriteEngine on
>   RewriteCond   %{HTTP_HOST}   !^soccertackle\.com [NC]
>   RewriteCond   %{HTTP_HOST}   !^$
>   RewriteRule   ^/(.*)         http://soccertackle.com/$1 [L,R]
>
> Now the app has been completely re written in rails using mongrel &
> apache (i don''t really understand much about web servers but
mongrel
> set up was nice and simple). However my redirect does not work any
> longer. I cant seem to find any information on the web (which would
> suggest i''m looking in the wrong places).
>
> can anyone suggest a solution to my problem or point me in the right
> direction?
> please be gentle, as i mentioned before servers are not my strong
> point.
>
> Thank you.
>   
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