Stop users accessing website via IP address

[Puneet]

Hi All,

Apologies for all this confusion and chaos.

I just don't want my website to be accessible by using the IP address on
which the website is hosted. Even if the Users use the IP address, I want
them to be redirected to my website.

It is the same way as www.facebook .com is hosted at "173.252.110.27".
When a user types "173.252.110.27" in the URL he is redirected to
"www.facebook.com"

I want to have the same functionality for mywebsite also.

To have this functionality I was trying Varnish to redirect the Users to
www.mywebsite.com .

Thanks
Puneet

-----Original Message-----
From: Poul-Henning Kamp [mailto:phk at phk.freebsd.dk] 
Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2013 3:12 AM
To: Puneet
Cc: varnish-misc at varnish-cache.org
Subject: Re: Stop users accessing website via IP address

In message <000f01ce8b0a$a872c230$f9584690$@insticator.com>, Puneet writes:

>I want to stop the users accessing my website via IP address.
>I am using varnish as cache.
>I have the following code in place but it is not working.
>
>In vcl_recv() {
>     if(req.url ~ "XX.XX.XXX.XXX") {

You should check the req.http.host header, that's where you will find the
IP# or hostname the user used.


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