I have a requirement where I have to redirect my hostname to particular application which is again hosted on same Apache. Let's take an example, When I hit on host(https://domain1.example.com), It should internally redirect me to Apache Web Application (https://domain1.example.com/application1) without changing the browser URL.
I am not sure how to achieve SSL to SSL redirection. Thanks in Advance..!!!
This should work. This will redirect all incoming urls that are going to domain1.example.com/ to domain1.example.com/application1
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain1.example.com$
RewriteRule ^$ https://domain1.example.com/application1 [L,R=301]
If without changing browsing URL is your goal then PROXY is your way.
Put following in your apache vhost or global file,
ProxyPass https://domain1.example.com/ https://domain1.example.com/application1
ProxyPassReverse https://domain1.example.com/ https://domain1.example.com/application1
PS shibboleth has nothing to do with this, at least you have not mentioned any case.
EDIT
ProxyPass should come to virtural host not in location
Ideally all the location tag should be out of virtual host
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Background:
We have DNS pointing to new server.
Apache Server has a directory called example
Example directory has an htaccess file for redirecting, code below
Issue is : We need this to redirect any variation of the url ie: http://example.com, https://example.com, http://example.com/filename.html, https://example.com/directory/filename.html, etc.. to a specific page on another server.
So far, we have the code below, it works correctly for https, but not http.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://differenturl/login/login.html [R=301,L]
I feel like there is a simple answer but can't seem to find it!
**Edit: for clarification -by not working, I mean that I am not redirected to https://differenturl/ etc... using http. It only works for https. http routes me to the home page of the server that this all sits on. And that server has a different domain name than anything above.
If it's "not working" for HTTP then either:
The <VirtualHost> container for port 80 (ie. HTTP) is not configured at all in the server config.
Or,
The vHost:80 container is pointing to a different area of the filesystem, so the .htaccess file is not processed.
Or,
The vHost:80 container does not permit .htaccess overrides so the .htaccess file is ignored. You either need to configure .htaccess overrides by setting AllowOverride All in the appropriate <Directory> container in the vHost:80 container. Or simply redirect everything to HTTPS in the vHost:80 container (eg. Redirect / https://example.com/) and then allow the .htaccess file to redirect from HTTPS. (That's potentially 2 redirects, but that should not be an issue.)
Or just do the redirect (to the other server) in the server config and not use .htaccess at all.
I have this redirect (in Apache 2.4 VirtualHost *:80 configurations), which redirects example.com over to example.com/api/ (subfolder) and it works flawlessly.
Once I enter http://example.com into the browser, it takes me directly to http://example.com/api/.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$
RewriteRule (.*) /api$1 [R,L]
Now, what I need is for this to work transparently. I want http://example.com/api to load directly on the root domain: http://example.com
I've tried all kinds of suggestions I found on the internet, but nothing that would hide/mask the subfolder from the final URL that shows in the browser.
I figured there is an easier solution to this. I am running my app on a Tomcat server behind Apache and thus adding the following to Apache rules into VirtualHost config fixed the issue with subfolder transparency.
ProxyAddHeaders off
ProxyPass / http://server-host-for-example-com:8080/connect/
ProxyPassReverse / http://server-host-for-example-com:8080/connect/
We have web servers running Apache behind an AWS ELB. I have setup the ELB to accept HTTPS connections, and send the requests over HTTP to the webservers. This works fine.
I have also redirected all the requests to ELB from HTTP to HTTPS using HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto.
I have added the below virtualhost section to my httpd.conf file and restarted Apache. This setup is redirecting HTTP requests to HTTPS but it is landing on the Apache home page instead of the expected site.
ServerName www.myexample.com
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https
RewriteRule !/index.html https://%{SERVER_NAME}/%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
The configuration seems to be simple and straightforward but not working.
Please let me know what is wrong in the above setup and why is it landing on the Apache home page.
You should escape the . in your rewrite rule. Change your Rewrite to be:
RewriteRule "!/index\.html" https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
Also, as in the comment to your OP Remove the slash between %{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}
I'm trying to figure out how to properly do this. I'm hosting a domain that used to have a website also on the same server, however the website has now been moved to a different machine, but they want to keep the domain hosted on our DNS. Rather than changing the DNS record right now, I'm trying to figure out how to do a proxy redirect but I'm having some trouble.
Right now, I'm using the RewriteEngine to rewrite the URL as follows:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domain\.org [NC]
RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://www.domain.org/$1 [L,R]
This is in case someone looks up the website simply by http://domain.org it will get rewritten to http://www.domain.com - that works fine.
Now I need to redirect it to go to an IP address with a username:
http://111.222.333.444/~user
Rather than simply redirecting it to that address, I'd like to do a proxy where the domain will still be visible in the browser's address bar, while also keeping the above rule in place.
Suggestions anyone?
Make sure mod_proxy is enabled and do:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.domain.com
ProxyPass / http://111.222.333.444/~user
</VirtualHost>
I'll try and explain this the best I can; I have two domain names: www.original.com and www.mysite.com/. Within the site for www.original.com there is no content and all the content is hosted in www.mysite.com/original/. Now, when I visit www.original.com I have set up a redirect like this:
redirectMatch 307 ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/original
However, I have realised that this is not what I need, because I would like the visitors of the www.original.com site to see www.original.com on the address bar, and not http://www.mysite.com/original. Is there any way to do this in .htaccess? I used to do it in the cPanel of my old hosting account via an addon domain, but the hosting I have now (united-domains.de) do not provide addon domains, apparently.
Thanks
Since the 2 sites are separate, you'll need to rely on mod_proxy. There are a number of ways to create a reverse proxy from the www.original.com domain to the www.mysite.com domain. The easiest would be to use ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse:
ProxyPass / http://www.mysite.com/original
ProxyPassReverse / http://www.mysite.com/original
But these are only applicable inside the server or vhost config. If you don't have access to that, you'll have to use mod_rewrite's [P] flag, which hands the target substitution of a RewriteRule to mod_proxy, and you can use this within an htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?original\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/original/$1 [L,P]
You have to tell www.original.com to act like a proxy server. but this may require you more than just editing an htaccess.
See this for more informations : http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html