Forwarding subdomains

Question

How can I forward www.sub.domain.com to //sub.domain.com

This is all in 1 virtual host

<VirtualHost *:443>

    Include /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/ssl.conf.include

    DocumentRoot /scripts/htdocs/domain-live

    ServerName sub.domain.com

    ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/smartdox-wellpoint_error
    CustomLog /var/log/apache2/smartdox-wellpoint_access combined

    <Directory /scripts/htdocs/smartdox-live>
        Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:433>
    Include /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/ssl.conf.include

    ServerName www.sub.domain.com

    RewriteEngine On
    Redirect 303 / https://sub.domain.com
</VirtualHost>

kobaltz · Answer 1 · 2011-12-12T19:41:32.390

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Try putting

ServerAlias www.sub.domain.com

after ServerName

edited Dec 12 '11 at 19:41

answered Dec 12 '11 at 18:22

kobaltz

161

I use that on another virtual host, so I can't implement it here since I'm looking for a specific solution. – Ben Dec 12 '11 at 18:25
Could you add ServerAlias www.sub.domain.com? This way it will only see that domain and not act as a wild card. – kobaltz Dec 12 '11 at 19:41

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 12 '11 at 18:27

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Add

ServerAlias *.sub.domain.com

to the vhost-config.

answered Dec 12 '11 at 18:27

Bart De Vos

18,061

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 12 '11 at 18:58

As others have mentioned... you can just accept the other domain as an alias... or you can setup a rewrite rule that will redirect to the correct site name with the alias.

RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST}  =www.sub.domain.com
RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://sub.domain.com/$1

If you really don't want the alias... add a 2nd virtualhost with the rewrite rules... and set the servername to the www.sub.domain.com

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 12 '11 at 19:46

Similar to TheCompWiz, I suggest just accepting the conections by adding the ServerAlias.

Instead of redirecting a specific domain, I suggest you select a canonical domain and then use this rewrite rule.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}   !^www\.example\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}   !^$
RewriteRule ^/(.*)         http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R]

This rule says if the host does not match www.example.com redirect to www.example.com.

So in your case you would match against your sub-domain.

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 12 '11 at 21:07

If you want to do such a redirect, probably the best thing would be to set up an additional VirtualHost like this and place a rewrite in it like this:

<VirtualHost *:443>
    ServerName www.sub.domain.com
    Redirect permanent / https://sub.domain.com
</VirtualHost>

To redirect all http requests to https you can use another VirtualHost like this:

ServerName sub.domain.com
ServerAlias www.sub.domain.com</p>

Redirect permanent / https://sub.domain.com

This requires the Apache module mod_alias to be installed and enabled.

Forwarding subdomains

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