Rewriting IP address to server name

[randyriegel]

How can I use mod_rewrite in order to make sure that if my site is accessed via IP it will rewrite it to domain name? I'm not very familiar with mod_rewrite but I'm assuming this is what I'd use to do this. Example:

User types:

69.73.xxx.xxx

in browser, I want it rewritten to show:

mydomain.com

? I've did search for this and didn't see anything. It's not really an issue and not that important, I'm just curious on how to do it.

Randy

[Connie]

I think the reason you don't see a solution is because it is not a problem, unless you have incoming links using the IP address.

What you do need to worry about is domain.com and www.domain.com resolving to the same webpage.

In this case you do need to use mod_rewrite to direct one to the other.

[Ron]

Google very quickly picked up on my IP addy during my server transition last year, indexed the IP based URLs and duplicate penalized some of my canonical pages.

They (the IP based URLs, all 36,300 of them) are NOW nicely labeled as "Supplemental Results", but that required judicial use of the URL removal tool. After 6 months of being out of the SERPs, they now (again) sometimes appear for phrase searches, unless I again use the removal tool. What a hassle.

[Ron]

...and using mod_rewrite, he could very easily redirect ###.###.###.### (the specific IP addy for your site) to www.domain.com, just as easily as redirecting domain.com to www.domain.com.

[Vin DSL]

How can I use mod_rewrite in order to make sure that if my site is accessed via IP it will rewrite it to domain name?

I suggest using a redirect. IPs change from time-to-time. For instance, I've had three 'static' IPs (on the same account) since I've been here... the original IP, once when JagPC changed providers, and once when I changed servers.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^69.69.69.69$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1  [R=301,L]

Um, you do have a 'dedicated' IP, or whatever, right?

[Ron]

If not, would the code look like this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^69.69.69.69/~jagaccountname$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1  [R=301,L]

??

[randyriegel]

Yes, I have a static IP. The redirect works perfect.
Thanks,
Randy

[jason]

If not, would the code look like this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^69.69.69.69/~jagaccountname$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1  [R=301,L]

??

Not quite. HTTP_HOST only contains the host name (or in this case, the IP address). In the case of a non-dedicated IP you'd want to use something like this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^69.69.69.69$
RewriteRule ^~jaguaraccountname/(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

--Jason