Craig White wrote on Mon, 05 May 2008 14:57:05 -0700:
<VirtualHost www.tobyhouse.com:*>
this is very old-fashioned and unreliable syntax, use this instead: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/name-based.html
RedirectPermanent / http://cms.tobyhouse.com
It sent ALL traffic over to the other server which is clearly not what I want.
I don't understand. Isn't that exactly what you want, redirect all traffic for www.tobyhouse.com to cms.tobyhouse.com?
How can handle this? Must I give a unique ip address to www.tobyhouse.com?
Ah, you have several virtual hosts on it and all of them get redirected to cms.tobyhouse.com? That's the result of the wrong virtual host syntax you use. Use name-based virtual hosts and it will work.
Why don't you solve this at dns level? Wouldn't that be much "cleaner"?
Kai