Okay I was wondering how I could make it so if this is typed into the address bar
http://209.123.147.87
it will automatically change the name to


http://www.technologyforever.com because I do not want my site viewable using the ip just the domain name

Microsoft has done this
when http://207.46.232.182
is typed in it redirects to the domain name

 
if($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] == '209.123.147.87') {
 header("Location:http://www.technologyforever.com");
}

Make sure you have this code parsed before you send any output, otherwise you will encounter an error if you don't have output buffering enabled.

Can you explain what to do? So I can do It I am confused about what you are talking about

This is more of a htaccess solution rather than a php solution.

RewriteEngine On
RedirectMatch ^/~(.*)$ http://www.technologyforever.com/$1
 
# 301 technologyforever.com to www.
RewriteCond %{http_host} ^technologyforever.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.technologyforever.com/$1 [R=301,L]

And will that get rid of the viewing by using the IP also

Originally Posted by goheadtry

And will that get rid of the viewing by using the IP also

Hmmm, I thought it would but I guess not.

# 301 IP to domain
RewriteCond %{http_host} ^209.123.147.87 [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.technologyforever.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Originally Posted by goheadtry

Can you explain what to do? So I can do It I am confused about what you are talking about

Just add those lines of code before anything else, I would do it in my application_top.php files a file which is included on every page before I do any other processing or ouput. If you have a file which is used like that just insert this code before anything else runs and you should be set.

Originally Posted by mgraphic

Hmmm, I thought it would but I guess not.

# 301 IP to domain
RewriteCond %{http_host} ^209.123.147.87 [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.technologyforever.com/$1 [R=301,L]

A bit od at what id does to mod rewrite on urls

http://209.123.147.87/game1.html

click that and watch what happens to the file name on the url

are you on dedicated hosting?

because if you are not, you won't be able to.

Like blackfalcon wrote you can use PHP. For redirection on right page you need one more line.

PHP Code:

<?php
if($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] == '209.123.147.87') {
$self = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
header("Location:http://www.technologyforever.com" . $self);
}
?>

Shivaji

Originally Posted by goheadtry

A bit od at what id does to mod rewrite on urls

http://209.123.147.87/game1.html

click that and watch what happens to the file name on the url

Place this rewrite rule BEFORE the other rewrite rules you have.