I recently purchased a new domain name from 1and1.com and used their HTTP redirect option to point to the address of my server. Let's say, for example, the fresh domain is new.com and the established server is old.com.
I have it redirecting to old.com/new via 1and1's configuration page, which works, save for the fact that when I visit new.com, it changes the browser's URL to old.com/new. This is obviously not what I want to happen.
I've set up htaccess rules:
# BEGIN New.com
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^new.com
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://old.com/new [P]
</IfModule>
# END New.com
Likewise, I've done the Apache configuration of Virtual Hosts:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.new.com
DocumentRoot /www/old/html/new/
</VirtualHost>
I then proceeded to flush my local DNS cache. Yet still, it persists in changing the address bar in my browser to old.com/new. What am I missing? Does it just need time to propagate or have I misconfigured / failed to properly set something up?
You need to change the 1and1's "new.com" DNS entry to point to the same IP that "old.com" is using. While the htaccess rule (which I assume is at the new.com document root) kind of does what you want, it requires the mod_proxy be loaded, which is something I doubt 1and1 hosting allows.
What you need to do is set it up such that when you go to a site like this and do a DNS lookup for new.com, you get the same IP as when you lookup "old.com".
On old.com's server, you have the vhost setup:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.new.com
DocumentRoot /www/old/html/new/
</VirtualHost>
which should be all you need to at least access the contents in /www/old/html/new/.
Related
I've read countless examples but nothing quite like what I'm trying to do.
Is it possible to use a vhost to redirect traffic sent to a subdomain to a main domain/subfolder/file.html?
Example:
User types into their browser http://productname.example.net/. I'd like them to end up at https://example.net/category/productname.html
NOTE: The user may or may not enter httpS but the ending site is an SSL url.
My conf file is as follows:
<Directory C:/websites/productname.example.net>
#BestProduct.example.net
#https://www.example.net/category/BestProduct/
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} bestproduct\.example\.net
RewriteRule (.*) /category/bestProduct/$1 [L]
</Directory>
The example.net has a different conf file because it is an SSL. I have a couple of websites running from the same server so I have several conf files.
My TLD DNS Entry: A Record is 123.456.789 (SSL URL)
My subdomain of BestPRoduct is 123.456.780 (non SSL URL) Is this correct? If I point this tot he SSL IP, the browser reports it as unsafe. The TLD redirects www.example.net to just example.net.
What do I need to change to make this scenario work as I've described? I'm stumped.
UPDATE
When I reviewed the access.log and the error.log file for the subdomain, it did not have any records in it (file size was 0 bytes). This makes me think that perhaps the DNS record is not setup correctly?
FINAL UPDATE
During the course of just a casual conversation with the client, I found out they want to do this with just about every product they sell (jaw drop). Apparently this client was informed by some SEO firm to setup subdomains for better SEO rankings. I recommended to the client to setup subfolders instead of subdomains and ultimately that is what we are doing. My argument was from a maintenance standpoint that setting up subdomains for every product wasn't feasible.
Q: User types into their browser http://productname.example.net/. I'd like them to end up at https://example.net/category/productname.html
A: Use Redirect. For example
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName productname.example.net
DocumentRoot "C:/websites/productname.example.net"
Redirect permanent "/" "https://example.net/category/productname.html"
</VirtualHost>
Notes
To redirect https see HOWTO: Apache Name-Based SSL-Enabled Virtual Hosting.
We have a site with an English and Spanish version, each on a different domain. We also have a few spare domains for each language which we'd like to redirect to the language's main domain.
Specifically:
estadiosfutbol.net/..., estadiosfutbol.org/... and estadiosfutbol.info/... should all redirect to https://estadiosfutbol.com/...
worldfootballstadiums.com/..., worldfootballstadiums.info/..., worldfootballstadiums.org/... and worldfootballstadiums.net/... should all redirect to https://worldstadiums.football/...
I'm struggling with the rewrite rules so any help would be greatly appreciated.
There are two ways this can be done. The first is the simpliest, but is not always practical.
First Method
This method does not require HTACCESS files. In your Apache server configuration you just need to add ServerAliases for each of the domains that you want it to handle. (You must make sure all the domains are pointing at the same machine)
The Code
NameVirtualHost *:443
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName estadiosfutbol.com
ServerAlias estadiosfutbol.info estadiosfutbol.net estadiosfutbol.org
DocumentRoot /www/domain
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName worldstadiums.football
ServerAlias worldfootballstadiums.com worldfootballstadiums.net worldfootballstadiums.info worldfootballstadiums.org
DocumentRoot /www/otherdomain
</VirtualHost>
Note: This will only redirect if the user tries to access the website using SSL. (eg ) If you want it to redirect all traffic from both port 80 and port 443 you would need to make separate virtual hosts and use the second method to achieve the redirection.
Second Method
The second way is a little more complicated, but works in almost all situations. There a two main steps that need to be carried out in order for this to work properly:
Make sure that whatever server software you are using is setup to be looking for all the domains. The server has to have a VirtualHost(Apache) that is listening for each domain in order for the next step to do anything.
Create a .HTACCESS file under each domains' root that looks similar to this:
The Code
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !estadiosfutbol.net$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://estadiosfutbol.com/$1 [L,R=301]
Note: You will need to change the third line on each domain to be the domain to rewrite from (eg estadiosfutbol.net/, estadiosfutbol.org/ and estadiosfutbol.info)
Note: Changing the forth line is all that is required for the separate domain.
I want to run some local tests on a site I have. The site is accessible at www.mysite.com. I want one particular file to be fetched from my local machine. I thought I could maybe achieve this by
installing Apache locally
adding 'localhost www.mysite.com' to my hosts file
configure Apache to forward all requests to www.mysite.com except for requests for the particular file www.mysite.com/myapp/myfile.css, which should be served from the Apache web server running locally.
Firstly I am not sure whether that set-up would work - in the case where a file is requested that is not my special case, the request would be forwarded to www.mysite.com/... , but would that then (because of the entry in my hosts file) go back to my local Apache server and into some infinite loop?
Secondly (and only relevant if the above is not true), how would I configure Apache to do that? I guess I need a ProxyPass but I'm having trouble figuring out exactly what.
Thanks for any help.
Paul
I don't think you'll be able to do this the way you're suggesting as you'll never be able to perform a lookup to proxy to www.mysite.com if you've defined it as localhost.
You could create another domain in your hosts file, say local.mysite.com and host the desired website files there and proxy everything else to www.mysite.com:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName local.mysite.com
DocumentRoot ...
<Directory ...>
...
</Directory>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/myapp/myfile.css
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [P]
</VirtualHost>
Or if www.mysite.com works directly using the IP (i.e. not via virtual hosting) you could point localhost to mysite.com and use the real IP in the rewrite proxy.
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.mysite.com
DocumentRoot ...
<Directory ...>
...
</Directory>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/myapp/myfile.css
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://1.2.3.4/$1 [P]
</VirtualHost>
i've already read all topics here and on google about redirection but i'm a programmer and i cant get it going.
I have Apache 2.2 installed. The web root is C:\Apache\htdocs. My network admin set me up a local domain that points to the server with Apache. The domain is myPhpApp.ourcompany.local. And this subdomain works, it shows the Apache "It works" page.
Now i have a website in C:\Apache\htdocs\myPhpApp and i want Apache to redirect the myPhpApp.ourcompany.local to this directory. The URLs should stay while browsing the website always as myPhpApp.ourcompany.local for example: myPhpApp.ourcompany.local/index.php, myPhpApp.ourcompany.local/data.php and so on.
I dont know how to achieve this? Mod-rewrite, virtual hosts, combination of both?
i have got this and this does not work:
<VirtualHost myphpapp.ourcompany.local>
DocumentRoot /myphpapp/
ServerName www.example1.com
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/$ /myphpapp/ [R]
</VirtualHost>
In effect i get:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access
/myphpapp/ on this server.
Can anyone help?
EDIT
Maybe i forgot to mention: i dont put this into the www root which is C:/Apache/htdocs becuase i have more apps in there.
i have 3 directories in thdocs: myphpapp, myoldapp, mytestapp. As a target i want to have 3 subdomains that point to each directory.
I think it will be a combination of Nikola's and cromestant's answers:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/Apache/htdocs/myPhpApp"
ServerName myPhpApp.ourcompany.local
</VirtualHost>
First of all, you don't need a rewrite rule for simple thing as this.
I assume you need following VirtualHost definition
<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot /myphpapp/
ServerName myphpapp.ourcompany.local
</VirtualHost>
"VirtualHost *" part tells Apache on which interface and optionally port to listen to.
ServerName tells which domain name will be used to identify this virtual host.
Document root in your apache config should point to your directory where you have the app, in what you stated in your question it should be
DocumentRoot C:\Apache\htdocs\myPhpApp
and that is all.
restart or reload your apache, and test.
I've had some users trying to access a site that is registered as subdomain.example.com with www.subdomain.example.com.
is there some sort of .htaccess rule I can add to redirect people that arrive using www.subdomain.example.com to subdomain.example.com?
Also, do I have to change DNS stuff?
Sure, use a directive like:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.subdomain.example.com
Redirect permanent / http://subdomain.example.com/
</VirtualHost>
Apache automatically preserves anything after the / when using the Redirect directive, which is a common misconception about why this method won't work (when in fact it does).
Also, yes you will need to change DNS records, because www.subdomain.example.com is a distinct hostname that needs its own A (or CNAME) record to point the browser to an appropriate server in the first place.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.subdomain.domain.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://subdomain.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
You need to add a virtual host directive in httpd.conf and Redirect Permament to the correct subdomain and add the additional DNS entry (CNAME is fine)