Hi,

I have a client who has url say www.xyz.com. They want a new url
www.abc.comso that when user enters
www.xyz.com, the user should see www.abc.com in his address bar of browser.
Basically an alias/redirection with address bar showing the new url. I could
have done redirection by dns names/url redirection at website level but
problem is I have a subfolder application i.e. www.xyz.com/subapp.

Now if I do dns/url redirection, and user tries to access
subfolderapplication with this url,
www.xyz.com/subapp/home.cfm, it takes the user automatically to
www.abc.com/home.cfm i.e. the main application without the
subfolderapplication, and I dont want that. It should take user to
www.abc.com/subfolder/home.cfm.

So to avoid this redirection at the website level, I added this code in
Application.cfm

 Code:

<!-- Relocate if not a secure connection -->
<cfif cgi.SERVER_PORT is "80" and CGI.SERVER_PORT_SECURE is "0">

        <!---replace xyz with abc --->
<cfset x = "https://#Replace(cgi.HTTP_HOST,"xyz","abc")##cgi.PATH_INFO#">
        
        <cfif cgi.query_string is "">   
                <cfset y = "">  
        <cfelse>        
                <cfset y = "?#cgi.query_string#">       
        </cfif>
        
        <cflocation url="#x##y#"><cfabort>

<cfelseif cgi.HTTP_HOST contains "xyz">

        <!---replace xyz with abc--->
<cfset x = "https://#Replace(cgi.HTTP_HOST,"xyz","abc")##cgi.PATH_INFO#">
        
        <cfif cgi.query_string is "">   
                <cfset y = "">  
        <cfelse>        
                <cfset y = "?#cgi.query_string#">       
        </cfif>
        
        <cflocation url="#x##y#"><cfabort>
        
</cfif>

My question to you guys is that

1. is this a good practice ?

2. do you see any security issues?

3. any performance issues?

4. does it ring any bells?

5. anything obvious iam missing here or do you have a better solution?

Thanks,

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