I've a domain on which I'm running two different web applications at different ports.
A Java web application on http://example:8888/foo
A PHP website on http://example:8080/bar
The requirement is, if an user tries to access the root of http://example:8888 or http://example:8080, then the user should be redirected to http://example:8888/foo.
How can I achieve this requirement?
mod_rewrite can achieve this easily, you will be using 301 redirects
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/$ http://example.com:8888/foo [R=301,L]
Make sure this is added in the vhost config section of both sites.
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Let me explain my setup here, I have two domains, for the sake of naming them lets call them domain1.com and domain2.com. I have shared hosting that runs cPanel.
Domain1.com is my main domain, and is what I have my hosting account setup using. I have a website hosted at that domain. Domain2.com is set as an add-on domain, and directs to a folder inside of the main domains root. That has it's own website (a Ghost blog).
That all works fine. However the websites hosted at the two domains are quite different and I did not want the subdomain to work, but as far as I can tell add-on domains in cPanel have to have a subdomain in order to be added to the account. The redirect options for the subdomains in cPanel aren't good enough for me, as I wanted anyone accessing say domain1.com/domain2 to get a 404 error as if it didn't exist. So I set up the .htaccess file for domain1.com to look like this:
RewriteEngine On
#301 (permenant) redirects all HTTP requests to HTTPS (SSL)
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
#404 redirects all domain.com/subdomain requests
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?domain1.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/domain2/(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [L,R=404]
#404 redirects all subdomain.domain.com & www.subdomain.domain.com requests
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain2.domain1.co.uk$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain2.domain1.co.uk$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [L,R=404]
This worked perfectly, anyone tryting to access domain2 via domain1 would get a 404 error. But that was before I installed Ghost on domain2 After getting Ghost installed I created an .htaccess file in the domain2 folder inside of domain1's root.I had to put this in it in order for Ghost for to run, as it uses NodeJS:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://127.0.0.1:55555555/$1 [P,L]
This also works perfectly except for one aspect. Now all requests to the domain using domain1.com have started working again. For example if I type domain2.domain1.com it will now show me the Ghost blog where as before it was correctly displaying a 404 Not Found error. Why is this and how do I go about rectifying this issue?
As a side note, I also started trying to have all http requests redirect to https. I added the following to the domain1.com htaccess file as I wanted all requests on both domains to redirect to https and I assumed this was necessary:
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
Now this kind of works. All requests, whatever they are (with or without www for instance), redirect to https, and when I visit it in my browser I get a green the icon indicating it's secured with SSL. Again even with this the previous issue of the domain redirect still doesn't work. But I have another odd issue here.
If I type in my browser simply "domain1.com" (ie without https:// or www. or a combination of the two), it will show just "domain1.com" in the address bar but with the green icon and say it is secured. If however I type in "domain2.com" (again with no https:// or www etc.) it does the same thing except it states it is not secure, suggesting it requested http.
And yet if I type in www.domain2.com or http://domain2.com, that works and I get the secured icon. It is highly puzzling. It seems that the https redirect works on every request except for just "domain2.com" while any other variation (www.domain2.com, http://domain2.com etc) works fine. Any clues? I mean clearly I've done something wrong with the htaccess files but I don't know what, I got most of what I'd put in them from searching sites like Stackexchange, but personally I don't really know anything about them or how they work.
I think I have fixed my own problem here.
I corrected the main htaccess so the https redirect acts like this;
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
From what I can tell it's better to do it this way than the way I had it previously. This in itself didn't fix the problems. What fixed it for me is editing the domain2.com htaccess to look like this:
RewriteEngine on
#Force WWW if it isn't in the request
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC,OR]
#Or include WWW even if it is in the request
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\. [NC]
#Then Force it to use https
RewriteRule .* https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
#Defines this domain so main htaccess rules for subdomains work
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)?domain2.com$ [NC]
#Proxy for Ghost
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://127.0.0.1:55555555/$1 [P,L]
Now everything works. All requests are redirected to https. All requests to the subdomain from the main domain fail with a 404. domain2.com now redirects to https://www.domain2.com or https://domain2.com so it is now always secured by SSL. I'm a novice at htaccess as is probably evident and I've no doubt some or all of this could have unnecessary elements removed or simplified so if anyone wants to correct my syntax so it's less messy I'd appreciate it.
I have a dedicated server with WHM/cPanel and hosting multiple domains on Linux.
For one of my domains, I'd like to get all http://www.mydom.com traffic to automatically go to http://mydom.com
This needs to happen for all subdirectories, files etc. e.g. http://www.mydom.com/aFile.php should go to http://mydom.com/aFile.php
Other subdomains such as img.mydom.com should still go to img.mydom.com and not be redirected.
How can I accomplish this? Thx.
You can setup redirection code in your .htaccess file to redirect your all traffic from www to non-www
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com [nocase]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://example.com/$1 [last,redirect=301]
I have a Wordpress install on domain1.com/blog but ideally I would like it to display as sub.domain2.com/blog.
These domains are on separate servers. Ideally I would install WP on same server as domain2 but this isn't possible right now.
I've been able to get sub.domain2.com/blog to display the WP homepage but is it possible for htaccess and apache to rewrite the urls on domain1.com to display as sub.domain2.com?
Other than simple url rewrites I have limited experience with htaccess but I suspect for security reasons this isn't possible.
You can of course, redirect your requests on domain1.com to sub.domain2.com:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(blog/.*)$ http://sub.domain2.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Put the above in a htaccess file for the domain1.com.
I have a domain and a different server with a Symfony2 website. I created a proxy redirection from the domain name to the server. That's working now.
But I have a problem. When I want to login with the FOSUserBundle, I see my IP address of the server (http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/login). I want to show my domain name instead.
Do I have to create an Apache2 RewriteRule or do I have to configure Symfony2? I have tried different RewriteRules, but it's not working.
Obviously Apache2. In Symfony you can configure only routes for controllers..
Something like that
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^121\.12\.12\.123
RewriteRule (.*) http://www. mydomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
I find it out, you have to add the following lines after Symfony2 RewriteRules. I placed my own rules before, and that caused the redirect loop.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^xxx\.xxx\.xxx\.xxx
RewriteRule (.*) http://url.nl/$1 [L]
Here is more information about rewriting urls in Symfony2:
http://www.symfonylab.com/tricks-with-symfony-htaccess/
We have different domains that are hosted on our server. Recently one of the main sections of our site has been moved to another server and been given a subdomain:
http://www.mysite.com/store
Has been moved to
http://store.mysite.com
Within our apache VirtualHost we wanted to redirect all traffic from the old domain to the new one:
Redirect permanent /store http://store.mysite.com
The problem is, we have other hosted sites that are being redirected now:
http://www.othersite.com/store
http://api.greatsite.com/store
We don't want this. How can I only have apache do redirects if http://www.mysite.com/store which has the /store path, and ignore other domains with /store?
Use mod_rewrite based code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mysite\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/?store(/.*|)$ http://store.mysite.com [L,R=301,NC]