[HCoop-Help] Domtool redirect: with www to without www keeping file path

[Adam Chlipala]

Michal wrote:
> I'm trying to permanently redirect all
> http://www.mydomain.com/something/ urls to
> http://mydomain.com/something/ (so the file path is kept)
>
> I've tried the following in my domtool file for my domain:
>
>   web "www" with
>     rewriteRule "^(.*)$" "http://mydomain.com$1" [redirectWith permanent]
>   end;
>
> (I found a similar rule at
> http://wiki.hcoop.net/DomTool/Examples/Full#spinlocksolutions.com, but
> with 'secure' instead of 'www') However doing this results in
> http://mydomain.com/ showing the hcoop.net home page (so I have now
> removed the above code from the domtool file)
>
> Any suggestions?
>   

You must not have created a virtual host for mydomain.com.  You can use 
the [vhostDefault] directive to do that.  It's like [vhost], but with no 
argument before the [with].