I was knocking about in my httpd.conf today because I noticed that undefined VirtualHosts were being handled by the last VirtualHost entry defined. I can make a ServerAlias *.involution.com, but I only want that to work for everything that’s not defined by other entries. The problem is I have a cadre of other VitrualHosts defined for my domain that I don’t want handled by the main entry. For example, rpm.involution.com is handled by a different VirtualHost entry than the involution.com one with the *.involution.com alias. The other catch is I don’t want malformed domain requests going to an incorrect VirtualHost entry because it borks the logging. The only way I could make this work is by putting the entry with ServerAlias *.involution.com after all of the other VirtualHost entries for involution.com in httpd.conf which makes sense logically. Is this the correct way to handle this scenario or is there an easier way?

Well, I went over to Nuggethaus today because he was having a free empower adapter give-a-way over there at 3:30PM. Apparently, I was late by a few minutes because the place was locked up tight like a squirrel when I got there. I later found out that Nugget was home, but locked away in his vaulted server room provisioning a new OC-192c line and training his cat to walk with little mops on his feet to clean the floor. As I left, I saw a partially completed crossword puzzle on the lawn that I picked up and cross the top it read, “What kind of idiot made this puzzle?”. I thought briefly about what kind of mindset someone would have to be upset by a puzzle. Nugget insists that the crossword was done by his neighbor, Hambone something-or-other. I’m not sure that Hambone really exists.

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