Typing out the title to this leads me to believe this might not be possible due to security concerns, but I will ask anyway. I have shortcode support running on my server, lets call it xx.yy
I want it so when a user sends a request to xx.yy, it just changes the displayed host to another valid domain running on the same box.
I have this so far (lets the server know to accept requests from xx.yy):
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*xx.yy [NC]
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://127.0.0.1:<PORT_OMITTED>%{REQUEST_URI} [P,QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*mysite.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://127.0.0.1:<PORT_OMITTED>%{REQUEST_URI} [P,QSA,L]
It works, and it directs the traffic into my app, but the url says http://xx.yy when I would rather it say http://mysite.com
I know i could redirect to http://mysite.com instead of 127.0.0.1, but I have 4 parallel boxes of mysite.com and going back out to DNS to maybe go to another box seems like a waste when I am already here. Also, I am not sure how POST requests would work like that.
What can I do?
If mysite.com is on the same box, and DNS is pointing there, just put R=301 in [P,QSA,L]
Example
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^OldDomain.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.OldDomain.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.NewDomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
From http://www.liewcf.com/redirect-webpages-to-another-domain-538/
Other than that, though there's no way for good reasons to do what you are asking. Imagine if someone could link to legitwebsite.com, but have it get sent to evilempire.com.
It'd be chaos, that's what.
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This website has a ton of extra domains (note: these are not subdomains; one of them, for instance, is http://eduard.fi) that the owner (or the SEO people, rather) wants to redirect to the main domain. Instead of listing them one by one, this is what I tried:
RewriteCond %{HTTPS_HOST} !^masetti\.fi$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://masetti.fi/$1 [R=301,L]
However this creates a redirect loop. Why is that? This does not produce a server error, so for that part the syntax is correct, but it does not do what I want.
You were close, but made a logical mistake. Take a look at this:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^masetti\.fi$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://masetti.fi/$1 [R=301]
An alternative would be that:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^masetti\.fi$
RewriteRule ^ https://masetti.fi%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301]
The RewriteCond has been slightly altered: It is the variable %{HTTP_HOST} you want to check, not %{HTTPS_HOST}which does not exist.
PS: it is a good idea to start out with a 302 redirection and only change that to a 301 once everything works as intended. That prevents issues with client side caching.
I really hope you can help me out (it is driving me crazy).
I've tried dozens of setups and nothing seems to work, Googled myself dizzy and tried numerous different setups, but it all seems to result in a loop or a server error.
This is what needs to happen:
I have a site with multiple domains attached to it. What I need is that when someone visits the website via the "domain.co.uk"-domain, a redirect to the correct language parameters (among others) takes place.
To be very specific: when visiting via "www.domain.co.uk" the visitor must be redirected to "www.domain.co.uk?lang=en&noredir=1¤cy=3"
I've made sure that the www is present with this:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.domain.co.uk$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301]
The trouble is (I think) the redirect within the same domain without causing a loop.
I've tried stuff like this, but with no result:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.co.uk$
RewriteRule ^$ http://www.domain.co.uk/?lang=en&noredir=1¤cy=3 [L,R=301]
Hope you can help,
Cheers!
This will cause a loop:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.co.uk$
RewriteRule ^$ http://www.domain.co.uk/?lang=en&noredir=1¤cy=3 [L,R=301]
Because you're only checking the host header. Every time the redirect fires it will arrive back at the server with a host header of www.domain.co.uk and redirect again. You need to also check the query string and only redirect if it doesn't already match what you sent:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.co.uk$
RewrteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !lang=en&noredir=1¤cy=3
RewriteRule ^$ http://www.domain.co.uk/?lang=en&noredir=1¤cy=3 [L,R=301]
I am trying to write rewrite code for my customer's site. I have no way of verifying if it's correct because I don't have access to the server yet. I know that sounds strange but it's what I have to accept and work around.
I plan to put this in the root htaccess file on the server. Bottom line is this URL does not work:
http://www.regions.noaa.gov/gulf-mexico/index.php/highlights/restore-act-passed/
So when the above fires, I want it to permanently redirect to:
http://www.regions.noaa.gov/gulf-mexico/highlights/restore-act-passed/
Here is what I have
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^regions\.noaa\.gov$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.regions\.noaa\.gov$
RewriteRule ^gulf\-mexico\/index\.php\/highlights\/restore\-act\-passed\/$ "http\:\/\/www\.regions\.noaa\.gov\/gulf\-mexico\/highlights\/restore\-act\-passed\/" [R=301,L]
I'd appreciate any feedback on this. Thanks.
UPDATE - thanks to all who replied. Here's what I don't understand. I found this code on my web hosting company's code generator. It seems to work:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^designerandpublisher.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.designerandpublisher.com$
RewriteRule ^services.html$ "http\://www.regions.noaa.gov/gulf-mexico/highlights/restore-act-passed/" [R=301,L]
I usually do like this and works fine.
IF user enter in the URL with highlights/restore-act-passed/ THEN will display contents from index.php/highlights/restore-act-passed/ in the browser.
# [NC] Means “No Case”, so it doesn’t matter whether the domain name was written in upper case, lower case or a mixture of the two.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^highlights/restore-act-passed/?$ index.php/highlights/restore-act-passed/ [NC]
IF the user enter in the URL with index.php/highlights/restore-act-passed/ THEN will display contents from _http://%{HTTP_HOST}/gulf-mexico/highlights/restore-act-passed/
RewriteRule ^index.php/highlights/restore-act-passed/?$ _http://%{HTTP_HOST}/gulf-mexico/highlights/restore-act-passed/ [NC]
You don't need to specify the HTTP_HOST, unless you will have multiple domains coming through here (add-ons, subdomains, parked domains, etc.). If you do want to specify it, it can be simplified to one line:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?regions\.noaa\.gov$
RewriteRule ^gulf\-mexico\/index\.php\/highlights\/restore\-act\-passed\/$ "http\:\/\/www\.regions\.noaa\.gov\/gulf\-mexico\/highlights\/restore\-act\-passed\/" [R=301,L]
Actually, a subdomain doesn't even need the www, but it doesn't hurt. Then, in the rewrite rule, you only need to escape specific metacharacters in the pattern, and none in the replacement string:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?regions\.noaa\.gov$
RewriteRule ^gulf-mexico/index\.php/highlights/restore-act-passed(/)?$ http://www.regions.noaa.gov/gulf-mexico/highlights/restore-act-passed/ [R=301,L]
I also made the last (trailing) / optional. Since you're going to the same domain, there is no need to repeat it:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?regions\.noaa\.gov$
RewriteRule ^gulf-mexico/index\.php/highlights/restore-act-passed(/)?$ /gulf-mexico/highlights/restore-act-passed/ [R=301,L]
The 301 code says to alert search engines that this URL or URI has permanently moved (it will show up changed in a browser address bar, too, so human visitors can choose to rebookmark it).
As this appears to be an SEO URI, presumably it will be translated into a dynamic format (/gulf-mexico/index.php?area=highlights&item=restore-act-passed). That means that the above rewrite has to be done before any SEO-to-dynamic translation. An alternative would be to directly translate it to dynamic format right here, but since you're giving a 301, presumably you want the SEO format to show in a browser or search engine result.
I really hope someone knows what I'm doing wrong here, cuz I sure don't!
We have a certain page on our site which has account balance information on it, and we want to make it secure with SSL. But we only want this one particular page to be secure. I have the following in the localhost:80 virtualhost, and it works perfect:
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} \/account\.php(.*) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [QSA,L]
However, as you might guess, we want all other pages to just use HTTP. So I stuck this little snippet into my localhost:443 virtualhost:
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !\/account\.php(.*) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [QSA,L]
...And that's when the problem happens. I have no problems going back to HTTP, but when I click the link to go to the account page, it changes to HTTPS but I immediately get an error 302 response. I do not get this response when I remove either one of those rewrite rules, it only happens when they are both there.
I have tried replacing [QSA] with [R] and [R=301], to no avail.
(I'm aware that the %{HTTPS} on/off is a bit redundant ;))
So I have two questions:
Is there something I am forgetting or doing wrong that might be causing this?
Is using [QSA] redundant with $1? We use the GET method a lot to specify pages and what not.
We are using PHP 5.2.9 and Apache 2.
Many thanks in advance!!
Brian
Whilst it's on here (and not moved to serverfault).. try
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
RewriteRule ^/account\.php https://%{HTTP_HOST}/account.php [R=301,QSA,L]
HTTP/1.1 302 = Found (and is not an error code), but temporarily at another location.
EDIT
Actually, whilst you are putting the code in separate VirtualHosts, you may as well do
(In :80)
RewriteRule ^/account\.php https://%{HTTP_HOST}/account.php [R=301,QSA,L]
(in :443)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/account\.php$
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://%{HTTP_HOST}$1 [R=301,QSA,L]
Basically, what I want to do is to rewrite all urls because we have many different languages. We have a server that hosts several domains. We have www.example.com, www.example.fr, www.example.de, www.anotherdomain.com, www.anotherdomain.de. What I want to do is to redirect all requests from example.xxx to www.example.com with extra url parameter lang=en. This should not affect other domains like www.anotherexample.com etc.
This does not work:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.example\.de$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1?lang=de [PT]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.example\.fr$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1?lang=fr [PT]
One thing that makes it even more difficult is that the ServerName is totally different than the host name, it is called prod.migr.com.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Try this:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.example\.de$
RewriteRule ^ http://www.example.com%{REQUEST_URI}?lang=de [L,R=301,QSA]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.example\.fr$
RewriteRule ^ http://www.example.com%{REQUEST_URI}?lang=fr [L,R=301,QSA]
The PT flag is most likely your problem. I've never seen it used when the target is a full domain address because it's meant for URI's to be further redirected with mod_alias.
The flag you should be using is the QSA flag in case the page the user is visiting has a query string on it.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.example\.de$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1?lang=de [QSA]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.example\.fr$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1?lang=fr [QSA]
However, a much better solution would be to check the host the user is visiting in your server-side language such as php or asp if all languages are hosted on the same server like this.
EDIT in response to additional information:
You can not get POST variables through rewriting to different domains like that because it has to redirect the request.
Your best bet is to determine the language in your server side language instead of using mod_rewrite.
If you use php it would be like this
$lang = substr(strrchr($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'], '.'), 1);
Other languages have similar ways to determine the host.