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[riquelme]

Hello,
Thanks for looking into this matter.

Since our Webhosting provider asked us all to migrate all of our IPs, I have done so as well.

However, when my website migrated, and I anticipated all the DNS changes, the rewrite engine wasn't working anymore

It is still not working since more than a week, meaning half the website is down since then..

I really don't know where it comes from.

The rewrite engine was meant to to the following

redirect
http://www.domain.com/index.php?u=something
into
http://something.domain.com

I'm sure it's well written because it was the same before migration, and it was working till then

When i go to http://something.domain.com , the domain is resolved, but leads to the plesk default page that you get into when a domain is not configured properly or DNS are not applied

Any help would be greatly apreciated
Thanks!

[arkin]

use this instead, no rewrite engine needed.

PHP Code:

<?php // This code should be put in index.php, arkin/Mar0306. //
$domain = "domain.com";
if (isset($_GET['u'])&&!empty($_GET['u'])) {
preg_match("/([A-Za-z0-9]*)/i",$_GET['u'],$redirect);
if (!empty($redirect[0])) die(header("Location: http://".$redirect[0].".".$domain));
}

This should work, sorry i took so long to reply.

Change $domain to your domain.

[riquelme]

sorry!

I made a typo, i meant that the redirection which isn't working is the
http://something.domain.com
into
http://www.domain.com/index.php?u=something


all the opposite

Thanks nonetheless for your help!

[arkin]

Oh dear

Have you checked that the rewrite module is enabled in your apache configuration and that the DNS propogates the the IP address of your server for all the subdomains?

[riquelme]

DNS both on the server and those who sold me the domain have the * (wildcard) applied directing to the IP

The rewrite engine I suppose is working since I haven't deactivated it after having migrated IPs (it was working before)

[riquelme]

please share your thoughts so I can apply them and let you know

[maxymizer]

Can you post your rewrite rules and doublecheck that you have wildcard DNS entry for your domain?

[riquelme]

hi

here is what my DNS looks like

domain.com.    NS    ns.domain.com.    
*.domain.com.    A    208.65.60.88    
mail.domain.com.    A    208.65.60.88    
domain.com.    A    208.65.60.88    
ns.domain.com.    A    208.65.60.88    
webmail.domain.com.    A    208.65.60.88    
ftp.domain.com.    CNAME    domain.com.    
www.domain.com.    CNAME    domain.com.    
domain.com.    MX (10)    mail.domain.com.    
208.65.60.88 / 24    PTR    domain.com.

And this is what my rewriting engine looks like

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}<>%{REQUEST_URI} ^([^.]+)\.domain\.com?<>/([^/]*) [NC]
RewriteCond %1<>%3 !^(.*)<>\1$ [NC]
RewriteRule   ^(.*)$ - [E=BLOGUSER:%1]

RewriteCond %{ENV:BLOGUSER} ^(.+)$
RewriteRule ^page([0-9]+)/?$ /index.php?u=%1&page=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{ENV:BLOGUSER} ^(.+)$
RewriteRule ^profile/?$ /profile.php?u=%1 [L]

RewriteCond %{ENV:BLOGUSER} ^(.+)$
RewriteRule ^archive_(.*)_(.*)_.html$ /archive.php?u=%1&y=$1&m=$2 [L]

RewriteCond %{ENV:BLOGUSER} ^(.+)$
RewriteRule ^archive_(.+).html /archive.php?u=%1 [L]

RewriteCond %{ENV:BLOGUSER} ^(.+)$
RewriteRule ^archive.html /archive.php?u=%1 [L]

RewriteCond %{ENV:BLOGUSER} ^(.+)$
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)/?$ /entry.php?u=%1&e_id=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{ENV:BLOGUSER} ^(.+)$
RewriteRule ^$ /index.php?u=%1 [L]

thanks again, any help is apreciated !

[riquelme]

any help please?
is the code correct?
DNS is set correctly?

[riquelme]

any rewritting engine gurus out there?

[riquelme]

could we try to put some basic rewritting stuff to test if it actually works? that way we'd know the problem is coming fom DNS

[RadiantDesigns]

yea testing it would def be the best idea..

[riquelme]

your site's animation is wonderful RadiantDesigns, grats for it


Do you happen to know a basic rewritting rule to test ? I have no knowledge in rewritting engine... I wasn't who made that one (although he worked before changing IPs)