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1. Install vim

aptitude install vim

2. Edit the vimrc

vim /etc/vim/vimrc

3. remove the quotes in front of syntax highlighting

" Vim5 and later versions support syntax highlighting. Uncommenting the next
" line enables syntax highlighting by default.
syntax on

Thats it enjoy the colours

To use Mod-Rewrite in Confixx for a certain vhost you must do the following

1. Log in to confixx as admin and select http special

2. Choose the customer or domain you wish to edit

3. Select advanced options an copy the following text into the provided text box

<Directory "/var/www/##user##/html">
Options +FollowSymLinks +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch +Multiviews
AllowOverride Indexes AuthConfig Limit FileInfo
</Directory>


Please change the path entry accordingly. ##user## matches all web users. You could also change the AllowOverride line to:

AllowOverride All

But this is not necessary if you are only planing on running Mod-Rewrite.

Example:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/ [L,R=301]


This rule should rewrite all non www URL’s with www.