rewrite rule to remove trailing dot from hostname

[Igor Sysoev]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 02:11:32AM +0200, Andrew Grim wrote:

> Right now users can browse my site via either "http://<hostname>.com" or
> "http://<hostname>.com.".  Notice the trailing dot.  So because of some
> flash security issues I want to redirect the hostname with the trailing
> dot to my regular hostname.  Should be easy, right?
> 
> I've tried a bunch of things, and it appears that $host doesn't include
> the trailing dot.  But if it doesn't, does anything?
> 
>     if ($host ~ "<host_name>.com\." ){
>       rewrite ^(.*) http://<%= http_host_name %>$1 permanent;
>     }
> 
> I've also tried
> 
>     if ($host ~ "\.$" ){
>       rewrite ^(.*) http://<%= http_host_name %>$1 permanent;
>     }
> 
> And a number of other things. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

The $host has no trailing dot, use original $http_host instead.


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