I am hosting multiple sites on Apache.
Wordpress configuration works perfectly, however configuring moodle site is causing too many redirects. This is my configuration in httpds-ssl.conf, please help.
#Word press config works perfectly
DocumentRoot "c:/Apache24/htdocs/wp"
ServerName http://uat.dummy.com.au:443
#Moodle causing too many redirects
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName uatlms.dummy.com.au
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/moodle/
RedirectMatch ^/$ /moodle [L,R=301]
</VirtualHost>
I need moodle to be appended to URL, so the end result should be uatlms.dummy.com.au/moodle (that's why can't do DocumentRoot option)
You mentioned a moodle site - if all requests to the site are to go to "/moodle", it is best to set DocumentRoot accordingly:
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName uatlms.dummy.com.au
DocumentRoot "c:/Apache24/htdocs/moodle"
</VirtualHost>
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I'm setting up a Virtual Hosts file on my CentOS 7 box and I'm having trouble getting my domain to resolve correctly.
Here's what my current /etc/httpd/conf.d/vhost.conf file looks like
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#domain.com
ServerName www.domain.com
ServerAlias domain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/domain.com/public_html/
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/error.log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/access.log combined
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =www.domain.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =domain.com
RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]
</VirtualHost>
It seems the the correct redirects are happening. For exmaple:
domain.com redirects to https: //www.domain.com
www works fine
BUT
https: //domain.com doesn't work
http ://domain.com doesn't work
In fact, if I remove the redirects I have set, domain.com ins't working at all, so it looks like the ServerAlias is broken?
I'm wondering if I need another redirect or is there some other step I'm missing?
Also, don't mind the spaces between http and the domain name. StackOverflow made me format it that way.
As presented, no request to anything https will ever work. Normal, you only have a VirtualHost on port 80. You do have a Listen directive for that port right?
For your redirections. It says: if you ask for http://www.example.com or http://example.com, redirect to https://<WHAT THE USER ASKED FOR>. In essence you are forcing your users to use https all the time, no problem there. But you do not have a VirtualHost on port 443, hence no response.
So:
Listen *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.example.com
ServerAlias example.com
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/80_error.log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/80_access.log combined
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}$1 [R=301,L]
</VirtualHost>
Listen *:443
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName www.example.com
# in case users do directly to https
ServerAlias example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/domain.com/public_html/
DocumentIndex index.html
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/443_error.log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/443_access.log combined
# SSL CONFIGURATIONS, TODO!
</VirtualHost>
In your *:443 VH, you will have to configure certificates and SSL.
Your certificates will have to be valid for both www.example.com and example.com to avoid browser complaints.
Careful there might be an ssl.conf included file under conf.d that defines some of this. Make sure you only set it once to avoid confusion.
No need to define DocumentRoot in *:80 VH since it only redirects and does not respond content to client.
Have fun!
I solved the issue. I had my local hosts file configured to point to an old out of date IP address……
domain.com *bad ip address*
I'm so embarrassed. I must have set that up months ago and forgot.
My domain name is example.com without www. So if I put www.example.com then it does not work but example.com works. So I configured apache like this
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName example.com
ServerAdmin webmaster#example.com
Redirect permanent / https://example.com/
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName example.com
ServerAdmin webmaster#example.com
DocumentRoot path/to/project/public
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /path/to/keys/xxx.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /path/to/keys/xxx.key
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error_log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access_log combined
<Directory "path/to/project/public">
Options FollowSymLinks
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Now, as you can see, I do a permanent redirection to https like
Redirect permanent / https://example.com/
But this redirection add www with the domain name by default. So the redirected url becomes https://www.example.com/. Obviously my website can not be accessed from with www since it is registered without www. So please tell me how can make the redirect to work and go to https://example.com/ without the https.
Add an Alias
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com
</VirtualHost>
This requires that the www.yourdomain.com points to the same place as yourdomain.com. However the www might not work with your SSL certificate, it depends on the certificates specificity.
I generally allow both on my sites as some people insist on including the www whenever they enter an address.
Apache's documentation can help out with more specifics https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/name-based.html
As far as the redirect issue you're having:
Make sure you don't have some RewriteEngine rules that are rewriting your non www requests to www. You might have an .htaccess file in your site directory that is doing the rewrite/redirect.
It might look something like:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^/?(.*) https://www.%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R,L]
Which would mean you should remove the www in the last Rewrite Rule
I have a Plone site called example.com located at /var/www/Plone (I think). I have the following settings for the site located in sites-available for vhosts (excerpt):
<VirtualHost 10.0.1.4:8082>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
ServerName wiedhas.noip.me
DocumentRoot /var/www/Plone
When I try to reach my site wiedhas.noip.me, apache loads the Plone directory tree and not my Plone site. I can browse through the file system of /var/www/Plone but it is not loading the site. I must not have set the documentroot to the correct directory of my site? Any help much appreciated.
This an excellent docu about running plone behind apache and more.
http://docs.plone.org/manage/deploying/front-end/apache.html
A simple example with ssl, how a vhost could look like:
<VirtualHost $IP:80>
ServerName my.domain.com
Redirect / https://my.domain.com
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost $IP:443>
ServerName my.domain.com
ErrorLog logs/my.domain.com-http-error.log
CustomLog logs/my.domain.com-http-access.log combined
Include vhosts.d/....ssl.inc
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://127.0.0.1:$PORT_OF_PLONE/VirtualHostBase/https/%{SERVER_NAME}:%{SERVER_PORT}/zodb/path/top/plone/VirtualHostRoot/$1 [P,L]
</VirtualHost>
The most important part is the rewrite rule:
RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://127.0.0.1:$PORT_OF_PLONE/VirtualHostBase/https/%{SERVER_NAME}:%{SERVER_PORT}/zodb/path/top/plone/VirtualHostRoot/$1 [P,L]
$PORT_OF_PLONE = Port of your running plone instance
/zodb/path/top/plone = That's where you added the plone site in zope.
Took me a while to get mine going so maybe this helps:
My vhosts looks like this (where my plone site is called 'mywebsite'):
#---------------------------------
# www.mywebsite.com
#---------------------------------
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.mywebsite.com
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://127.0.0.1:8081/VirtualHostBase/http/%{SERVER_NAME}:80/mywebsite/VirtualHostRoot/$1 [L,P]
</IfModule>
</VirtualHost>
Hope that helps :)
As you see in the first and correct answer you do not need DocumentRoot. DocumentRoot points to a directory with files to render by Apache. But Plone brings it's own server, the Zope application server, which runs on a different port than Apache. The RewriteRule redirects the incoming request to the application server and modifies the response in a way that the redirection is hidden for the client.
I am running an Apache HTTP server that accepts requests for my domain. Lets call it www.mydomain.com. I have several sites that run under this domain and I have virtual hosts set up for each one that forwards the user depending upon with URL they use. Examples would be a.mydomain.com, b.mydomain.com, etc. I am aware that this may not have been the best way to accomplish this goal considering there are over 100 virtual hosts, but it is something I have inhertited and.. to put it short.. it works. Now on to my problem.
I have recently been tasked with shutting down most of the sites running under the domain. The sites that are shut down have been redirected to one page on my new domain (www.mynewdomain.com). What I have done is changed each of the virtual hosts from something like this:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName a.mydomain.com
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/$ /SiteA [PT]
</VirtualHost>
to this:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName a.mydomain.com
Redirect permanent / http://www.mynewdomain.com/replacement
</VirtualHost>
So now I have a list of 100 hosts that all redirect to the same place. What I need to know is if there exists a way to tell the system to redirect all sites at *.mydomain.com to my new page except certain ones. So some entry like this:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName *.mydomain.com
Redirect permanent / http://www.mynewdomain.com/replacement
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName h.mydomain.com
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/$ /SiteH [PT]
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName v.mydomain.com
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/$ /SiteV [PT]
</VirtualHost>
Which means that every URL you see will go to "http://www.mynewdomain.com/replacement" except "h.mydomain.com" and "v.mydomain.com". The virtual hosts for "h" and "v" must still be intact because I have RewriteRules for each that must continue to work (additional rewriterules not seen in my examples).
Thanks in advance for the assistance!
I have a website on which I've enabled subdomain access such as:
http://subdomain1.example.com
which accesses the same code, but passing a domain parameter in order to show a different microsite. The httpd.conf code for that looks like this:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^./]+)\.example\.com$
RewriteRule forums.html$ /browse.php?type=forums&domain=%1 [QSA]
Now I need to redirect http://example.com to http://www.example.com
I tried this, but it did not work:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
(source: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/apache-redirect-domaincom-to-wwwdomaincom/ )
EDIT1
<VirtualHost IPADDRESS:80>
ServerAlias *.example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/abc
ServerName www.example.com
UseCanonicalName On
EDIT2
Hi mreithub,
The setup I need is something like this:
http://X1.example.com should use the code in /something/X1
http://X2.example.com should use the code in /something/X2
http://example.com should redirect to http://www.example.com
http://www.example.com/scriptA.php should use the code in /var/www/html/abc/scriptA.php
http://whateverelse.example.com/scriptA.php should use the code in /var/www/html/abc/scriptA.php but be passed with a 'domain=whateverelse' parameter (but the URL on screen should show always show the domain as being http://whateverelse.example.com )
I had asked a question on SF - https://serverfault.com/questions/408805/configuring-httpd-conf-to-handle-wildcard-domains-with-multiple-scripts - from where I used adaptr's technique to pass the domain parameter to the PHP scripts.
My personal favorite for redirecting whole VirtualHosts in apache is to simply create a VirtualHost for the domain to redirect and use the Redirect directive:
<VirtualHost IPADDRESS:80>
ServerName example.com
Redirect / http://www.example.com/
DocumentRoot /var/www # <-- Just for completeness
</VirtualHost>
... and then another VirtualHost for your actual website
Redirect redirects every request going to host a to b while keeping any postfixes (e.g. http://example.com/foo?bar=bak becomes http://www.example.com/foo?bar=bak).
I use Redirect a lot to rewrite from http:// to https://
Wow. 3 hours later... Lots of changes, lots of learnings.
1) Changed this:
NameVirtualHost IPADDRESS:80
To:
NameVirtualHost *:80
2) Marked all:
<VirtualHost IPADDRESS:80>
As:
<VirtualHost *:80>
3) Rearranged ServerName and placed it first within the VirtualHost (not sure if this made any difference)
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName test4.example.com
ServerAlias test4.example.com
DocumentRoot /home/test4/public_html
UseCanonicalName On
</VirtualHost>
3) Rearranged all VirtualHosts. Placed the 'static' / fixed subdomains earlier and the catch-all / www one as the last one. The last one looks like:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.example.com
ServerAlias example.com *.example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/abc
UseCanonicalName On
...