{"id":27,"date":"2008-06-18T09:40:11","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T15:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.n8williams.com\/devblog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2021-04-24T18:31:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T00:31:39","slug":"get-the-domain-entered-from-the-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/n8williams.com\/devblog\/coldfusion\/get-the-domain-entered-from-the-request","title":{"rendered":"Get the domain entered from the request. Coldfusion CGI.HTTP_HOST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Use CGI.HTTP_HOST<\/p>\n<p>Issue: mydomain.com gets load-balanced and uses multiple servers. CGI.SERVER_NAME will not return &#8216;mydomain&#8217; but will return &#8216;sever1&#8217; or &#8216;server2&#8217; etc.<\/p>\n<p>I want to check the request URL, and if it does not include www, re-locate to www.mydomain\/pagerequested?event=eventrequested<\/p>\n<div class=\"text-box\"><code>&lt;!--- Redirect to the site that corresponds to the securehost ---&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;cfset secureurl=&quot;xmlParse(expandPath(&quot;\/mydevenvironment\/settings.xml&quot;)).&quot; settings.securehost.xmltext=&quot;&quot;&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;cfloop collection=&quot;#CGI#&quot; item=&quot;field&quot;&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;cfoutput&gt;#field#: #CGI[field]#<br \/>\n&lt;\/cfoutput&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;\/cfloop&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;cfif not=&quot;&quot; refind(&quot;www\\.&quot;,=&quot;&quot; cgi.http_host)=&quot;&quot;&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;!--- If a secure request, keep the https, otherwise just go to http---&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;cfif cgi.https=&quot;&quot; eq=&quot;&quot; &quot;on&quot;=&quot;&quot;&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;cfset theurlbase=&quot;secureurl&quot;&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;cfelse&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;cfset theurlbase=&quot;REREplace(secureurl,&quot;https:&quot;,&quot;http:&quot;)\/&quot;&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;\/cfset&gt;&lt;\/cfelse&gt;&lt;\/cfset&gt;&lt;\/cfif&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;cfoutput&gt;#theURLBase#&lt;\/cfoutput&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;cflocation url=&quot;#theURLBase##CGI.SCRIPT_NAME#?#CGI.QUERY_STRING#&quot; addtoken=&quot;false&quot;&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;\/cflocation&gt;&lt;\/cfif&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;\/cfset&gt;<\/code><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use CGI.HTTP_HOST Issue: mydomain.com gets load-balanced and uses multiple servers. CGI.SERVER_NAME will not return &#8216;mydomain&#8217; but will return &#8216;sever1&#8217; or &#8216;server2&#8217; etc. I want to check the request URL, and if it does not include www, re-locate to www.mydomain\/pagerequested?event=eventrequested &lt;!&#8212; Redirect to the site that corresponds to the securehost &#8212;&gt; &lt;cfset secureurl=&quot;xmlParse(expandPath(&quot;\/mydevenvironment\/settings.xml&quot;)).&quot; settings.securehost.xmltext=&quot;&quot;&gt; &lt;cfloop collection=&quot;#CGI#&quot; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/n8williams.com\/devblog\/coldfusion\/get-the-domain-entered-from-the-request\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Get the domain entered from the request. 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