Re: Apache (was Apace) Redirect Question
Here are the settings for one of my multisite servers.
Good afternoon Wolf,
I am afraid I am not accomplishing what I want to do with your information
either. I've tried to get it to work with my layout, but no matter what
I do, entering http://domain1.com in the client's browser either gives
me a 404 if there is nothing explictely defined to serve a request for
http://domain1.com, or if I define a server alias, then the URL never changes
to http://www.domain1.com, but the page is served. This is basically what
I had with my site definitions too.
I did find some old documentation on the Apache site that seems to support
exactly what I want to do, but I am unable to make it work either. Granted
this is for version 2.0, but the regular expressions should be valid. That URL
is http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html. The description
under the section labeled Canonical Hostnames reads:
The goal of this rule is to force the use of a particular hostname,
in preference to other hostnames which may be used to reach the same
site. For example, if you wish to force the use of www.example.com instead
of example.com, you might use a variant of the following recipe.
The rewrite rules listed for that recipe are:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R]
I have placed these rules as global directives in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf,
and they did not work. I tried them in the default site file, and in the
vhost definition for domain1.com. Again, unless I have a line in the file
sites-avaliable/domain1.com that reads ServerAlias domain1.com, the request
for http://domain1.com results in a 404 error. If I place the ServerAlias
line in the file, the page is served, but URL is never rewritten. I have even
created a LogFormat template that captures the host request, and domain1.com
is what is being requested.
It is almost as if the rewrite engine is never made aware of the fact that
the condition it is supposed to be looking for has in fact occurred. I find
it hard to beleive this is a bug that has gone unnoticed for this long, so
I've got to believe it is something I've done wrong. But I have followed the
example exactly as written, and I am familar enough with regular expressions
to know that !^www\.domain1\.com [NC] means a host that does not start with
www.domain1.com, ignoring letter case, and that !^$ means the host request is
not empty. So why does a request for domain1.com, which meets both criteria,
not trigger the rewrite rule?
At this point I am utterly frustrated because the documentation is clear,
but following it fails. I just want to type http://domain1.com into the
address bar, and have Apache change it to http://www.domain1.com. I just do
not know how to accomplish this.
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Re: Apache (was Apace) Redirect Question
On Saturday, November 3, 2012 19:38, mouss mo...@ml.netoyen.net said: Le 03/11/2012 13:31, cr...@gtek.biz a écrit : [snip] I know I've entered URL's into my browser's navigation bar and watched them change to something else, such as entering http://example.com and being redirected to http://www.example.com, with that URL then populating the navigation bar. So I'm close in that both requests return the file that I want returned, but I don't know how to have the URL change so the user sees the URL I want them to see. So I guess what I'm asking is, how do I configure things so that the server knows a request for domain1.com should be handled as if it were a request for www.domain1.com, and sends the client to that URL? in domain1.com vhost config: redirect permanent / http://www.domain1.com/ source: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/en/mod/mod_alias.html#redirect Hi mouss, Unfortunately, if I leave the ServerAlias domain1.com line out of the sites-available/domain1.com file, all requests for http://domain1.com result in a 404 error, with or without this redirect. If I put that line in the file then this redirect results in an error page that states something to the effect of Icedove has detected that this page is being redirected in a manner that will never complete. Sent - Gtek Web Mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1352072715.965918...@webmail.gtek.biz
Re: Apache (was Apace) Redirect Question
did you link the sites in sites-available to sites-enabled? Wolf Halton http://sourcefreedom.com Apache developer: wolfhal...@apache.org On Nov 4, 2012 6:45 PM, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: On Saturday, November 3, 2012 19:38, mouss mo...@ml.netoyen.net said: Le 03/11/2012 13:31, cr...@gtek.biz a écrit : [snip] I know I've entered URL's into my browser's navigation bar and watched them change to something else, such as entering http://example.com and being redirected to http://www.example.com, with that URL then populating the navigation bar. So I'm close in that both requests return the file that I want returned, but I don't know how to have the URL change so the user sees the URL I want them to see. So I guess what I'm asking is, how do I configure things so that the server knows a request for domain1.com should be handled as if it were a request for www.domain1.com, and sends the client to that URL? in domain1.com vhost config: redirect permanent / http://www.domain1.com/ source: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/en/mod/mod_alias.html#redirect Hi mouss, Unfortunately, if I leave the ServerAlias domain1.com line out of the sites-available/domain1.com file, all requests for http://domain1.comresult in a 404 error, with or without this redirect. If I put that line in the file then this redirect results in an error page that states something to the effect of Icedove has detected that this page is being redirected in a manner that will never complete. Sent - Gtek Web Mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1352072715.965918...@webmail.gtek.biz
Re: Apache (was Apace) Redirect Question
did you link the sites in sites-available to sites-enabled? Wolf Halton http://sourcefreedom.com Apache developer: wolfhal...@apache.org $ ls -l /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Oct 14 16:58 000-default - ../sites-available/default lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Oct 14 18:08 domain1.com - ../sites-available/domain1.com lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Oct 14 18:42 domain2.com - ../sites-available/domain2.com I I recall using a2ensite for the sites, and a2enmod to enable the rewrite module. That is the only module I've had to enable. Sure would have been nice if it had only been missing links though. Sent - Gtek Web Mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1352080651.246218...@webmail.gtek.biz
Re: Apache (was Apace) Redirect Question
On Friday, November 2, 2012 21:48, Wolf Halton wolf.hal...@gmail.com said: Make these changes in sites-available files. That is what those files in there are for. I don't have the specific directive but I can put up one of my servers' apache files for you. Wolf Halton http://sourcefreedom.com Apache developer: wolfhal...@apache.org Thanks Wolf, and it makes sense that the directives that apply to a site would go in that site's definition. I just don't quite understand what I need to put in there. When I check the default site access logs, I see the request for http://domain1.com come in as /, but I also see the same for domain2.com and for the IP address. All three show up as GET / HTTP/1.1 I understand that the server does not know about the sites by those names because I haven't configured it to do so. Obviously Apache is capable of this distinction because if I change the ServerName in domain1's sites-available to domain1.com then the index.html file in /var/www/htdocs/domain1.com is returned to the client. If I add the ServerAlias www.domain1.com directive then both the request for domain1.com and the request for www.domain1.com return /var/www/htdocs/domain1.com/index.html, but the URL does not change in the navigation bar, and both show up in the log as GET / HTTP/1.1. I know I've entered URL's into my browser's navigation bar and watched them change to something else, such as entering http://example.com and being redirected to http://www.example.com, with that URL then populating the navigation bar. So I'm close in that both requests return the file that I want returned, but I don't know how to have the URL change so the user sees the URL I want them to see. So I guess what I'm asking is, how do I configure things so that the server knows a request for domain1.com should be handled as if it were a request for www.domain1.com, and sends the client to that URL? Thanks, Craig Sent - Gtek Web Mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1351945905.66525...@webmail.gtek.biz
Re: Apache (was Apace) Redirect Question
On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 8:31 AM, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: On Friday, November 2, 2012 21:48, Wolf Halton wolf.hal...@gmail.com said: Make these changes in sites-available files. That is what those files in there are for. I don't have the specific directive but I can put up one of my servers' apache files for you. Wolf Halton http://sourcefreedom.com Apache developer: wolfhal...@apache.org Thanks Wolf, and it makes sense that the directives that apply to a site would go in that site's definition. I just don't quite understand what I need to put in there. When I check the default site access logs, I see the request for http://domain1.com come in as /, but I also see the same for domain2.com and for the IP address. All three show up as GET / HTTP/1.1 I understand that the server does not know about the sites by those names because I haven't configured it to do so. Obviously Apache is capable of this distinction because if I change the ServerName in domain1's sites-available to domain1.com then the index.html file in /var/www/htdocs/domain1.com is returned to the client. If I add the ServerAlias www.domain1.com directive then both the request for domain1.com and the request for www.domain1.com return /var/www/htdocs/domain1.com/index.html, but the URL does not change in the navigation bar, and both show up in the log as GET / HTTP/1.1. I know I've entered URL's into my browser's navigation bar and watched them change to something else, such as entering http://example.com and being redirected to http://www.example.com, with that URL then populating the navigation bar. So I'm close in that both requests return the file that I want returned, but I don't know how to have the URL change so the user sees the URL I want them to see. So I guess what I'm asking is, how do I configure things so that the server knows a request for domain1.com should be handled as if it were a request for www.domain1.com, and sends the client to that URL? Thanks, Craig Sent - Gtek Web Mail Here are the settings for one of my multisite servers. I am using Apache2.2 on Debian Squeeze with the backports repo enabled - thus it is not a stock Squeeze install This is even simpler than I thought I would be giving you as the NameVirtualHost directive is in conf.d/virtual.conf If you notice, the apache2.conf file has only the generic server info and all of the specific user configs are in other places. It handles the did they type www. or not in the virtual config as a server alias. This is not a redirect, which would add details to the url, like you get when you type http://evergreen.lyrasistechnology.org into the address bar, because these 2 directories are simply not shared. The evergreen address is pointed at a directory outside of /var/www and can be shared by multiple clients and the search scope is different in each. ** You may get a warning when you restart apache with this setup because default-ssl is listening on port 443 - the complaint will be that apache does not like mixing virtual servers with port numbers and others without. I haven't had to restart this setup for months, so I don't remember the exact warning message. -Wolf #===snippet from apache2.conf # Include generic snippets of statements Include conf.d/ #===Contents of conf.d directory=== wolf@SERVER-01:/etc/apache2/conf.d$ ls charset localized-error-pages other-vhosts-access-log security virtual.conf #===Configuration of virtual.conf=== wolf@SERVER-01:/etc/apache2/conf.d$ cat virtual.conf # running virtual hosts # NameVirtualHost * #==Contents of the sites-available directory wolf@SERVER-01:/etc/apache2/sites-available$ ls default default-ssl legacy #==Configuration for dev.example.net wolf@SERVER-01:/etc/apache2/sites-available$ cat default VirtualHost * ServerAdmin wolf.hal...@lyrasis.org ServerName dev.example.net ServerAlias www.dev.example.net DocumentRoot /var/www/http/ Directory / Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All /Directory Directory /var/www/http/ Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Order allow,deny allow from all /Directory ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ Directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin AllowOverride None Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Order allow,deny Allow from all /Directory ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit, # alert, emerg. LogLevel warn CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined Alias /doc/ /usr/share/doc/ Directory /usr/share/doc/ Options Indexes MultiViews
Re: Apache (was Apace) Redirect Question
Wolf, thank you very much for graciously providing the examples. I will study this to gain an understanding, and I will let you know how it goes. Craig Here are the settings for one of my multisite servers. I am using Apache2.2 on Debian Squeeze with the backports repo enabled - thus it is not a stock Squeeze install This is even simpler than I thought I would be giving you as the NameVirtualHost directive is in conf.d/virtual.conf If you notice, the apache2.conf file has only the generic server info and all of the specific user configs are in other places. It handles the did they type www. or not in the virtual config as a server alias. This is not a redirect, which would add details to the url, like you get when you type http://evergreen.lyrasistechnology.org into the address bar, because these 2 directories are simply not shared. The evergreen address is pointed at a directory outside of /var/www and can be shared by multiple clients and the search scope is different in each. ** You may get a warning when you restart apache with this setup because default-ssl is listening on port 443 - the complaint will be that apache does not like mixing virtual servers with port numbers and others without. I haven't had to restart this setup for months, so I don't remember the exact warning message. -Wolf #===snippet from apache2.conf # Include generic snippets of statements Include conf.d/ #===Contents of conf.d directory=== wolf@SERVER-01:/etc/apache2/conf.d$ ls charset localized-error-pages other-vhosts-access-log security virtual.conf #===Configuration of virtual.conf=== wolf@SERVER-01:/etc/apache2/conf.d$ cat virtual.conf # running virtual hosts # NameVirtualHost * #==Contents of the sites-available directory wolf@SERVER-01:/etc/apache2/sites-available$ ls default default-ssl legacy #==Configuration for dev.example.net wolf@SERVER-01:/etc/apache2/sites-available$ cat default VirtualHost * ServerAdmin wolf.hal...@lyrasis.org ServerName dev.example.net ServerAlias www.dev.example.net DocumentRoot /var/www/http/ Directory / Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All /Directory Directory /var/www/http/ Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Order allow,deny allow from all /Directory ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ Directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin AllowOverride None Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Order allow,deny Allow from all /Directory ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit, # alert, emerg. LogLevel warn CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined Alias /doc/ /usr/share/doc/ Directory /usr/share/doc/ Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128 /Directory /VirtualHost #Configuration for legacy.example.net== wolf@SERVER-01:/etc/apache2/sites-available$ cat legacy # This is the settings file for the legacy.example.net site VirtualHost * ServerAdmin wolf.hal...@lyrasis.org ServerName www.legacy.example.net ServerAlias legacy.example.net # Indexes + Directory Root. DirectoryIndex index.html DocumentRoot /var/www/legacy/htdocs/ # CGI Directory ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/legacy/cgi-bin/ Location /cgi-bin Options +ExecCGI /Location # Logfiles ErrorLog /var/www/legacy/logs/error.log CustomLog /var/www/legacy/logs/access.log combined /VirtualHost -- This Apt Has Super Cow Powers - http://sourcefreedom.com Open-Source Software in Libraries - http://FOSS4Lib.org Advancing Libraries Together - http://LYRASIS.org Apache Open Office Developer wolfhal...@apache.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CALRLYEmYvqzFFSidNhv5V+ka0YQr7A-6FK3u-=s0aph1-0k...@mail.gmail.com Sent - Gtek Web Mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1351976583.48636...@webmail.gtek.biz
Re: Apache (was Apace) Redirect Question
Le 03/11/2012 13:31, cr...@gtek.biz a écrit : [snip] I know I've entered URL's into my browser's navigation bar and watched them change to something else, such as entering http://example.com and being redirected to http://www.example.com, with that URL then populating the navigation bar. So I'm close in that both requests return the file that I want returned, but I don't know how to have the URL change so the user sees the URL I want them to see. So I guess what I'm asking is, how do I configure things so that the server knows a request for domain1.com should be handled as if it were a request for www.domain1.com, and sends the client to that URL? in domain1.com vhost config: redirect permanent / http://www.domain1.com/ source: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/en/mod/mod_alias.html#redirect -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5095b8ec.3080...@ml.netoyen.net
