[UPHPU] Passing more than one $_GET variable

[Brandon Stout]

Kirk Cerny wrote:
> I always account for the people that are going to type the www. with
> an apache ServerAlias
>
> ServerAlias www.test.somedomain.com

yes, but the point of www was to differentiate which server has mail, 
which has web, etc.  www, when used, should be just one subdomain.  
Nobody should have to define www in front of every subdomain.  This 
would also mean that if your hosting provider gives you 50 sub-domains, 
you really only get 25 if you define a www in front of every subdomain 
in addition to the subdomain.  Then there's paying for digital 
certificates... if you use ServerAlias for www on every single 
subdomain, you will get errors for all users who try to access your 
domain without www if you paid for a cert with www or vise versa.  Who 
wants to pay double certification costs to avoid the error (buy a cert 
for www and not www)?  I'd rather do this than define a www ServerAlias 
for all domains and subdomains:

<VirtualHost [IP]:[port]>
    ServerName     www.[domain].org
    RedirectPermanent     /     http://[domain].org/
</VirtualHost>

Or this for a subdomain:

<VirtualHost [IP]:[port]>
    ServerName     www.[sub].[domain].org
    RedirectPermanent     /     http://[sub].[domain].org/
</VirtualHost>

This yields several advantages over ServerAlias:

 * Whenever someone requests the unnecessary www.[domain].org , the URL 
in their browser changes to the URL without www.
 * Keen surfers will notice this and stop using the www, thus promoting 
the do-away-with-www philosophy I share with Wade.
 * I only need one digital certificate for the domain, without www.
 * SEO - this tells search engines that this domain redirects, and that 
the redirect is permanent.

FYI, you can also use RedirectPermanent to make all your traffic use SSL:

<VirtualHost [IP]:80>
    ServerName     [domain].org
    RedirectPermanent     /     https://[domain].org/
</VirtualHost>

Brandon Stout
http://mscis.org