Today one of our server got in trouble with an ACE encoded IDN domain. The problem seemed to be rails in combination with nginx’s X-Sendfile feature. The result became that when accessing the site trough the IDN domain x-senfile did not send any files….
Our quick and dirty solution (until we have found the source/or solved the problem) became redirecting all traffic from the IDN domain to the domain without strange-swedish-characters.
With nginx this is as simple as in most webservers just put the following code before you original server configuration in nginx.conf.
1 2 3 4 | server { server_name xn--svenskdomn-y5a.se www.xn--svenskdomn-y5a.se; rewrite ^(.*) http://www.svenskdoman.se$1 permanent; } |
And Bowang! All requests to www.svenskdomän.se will be redirected to www.svenskdoman.se.
Domain names have been changed to protect the innocent 
Cheers!
Posted in Hosting, Rails at May 21st, 2008. No Comments
Tagged with Hosting, nginx, Rails. Written by: stjernstrom
Tagged with Hosting, nginx, Rails. Written by: stjernstrom
