We have a website that has been in use for a project for years, which
someone else took up and would like the site permanently redirected to the
new URL. For whatever reason I cannot get this redirect to work
consistently, and I'd like to know where I'm going wrong.
The only thing I changed on the website.conf file was adding the redirect
statement. What used to happen was if you came in on the full base URL, it
would append the directory to the URL and load the site.
Now it alternates between showing the /var/www/index file or redirecting to
the new website, and I'm not sure why.
website.conf:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^full.website.base.URL$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/$ https://full.website.base.URL/url-path/ [L,R]
alias /url-path "/local/www/path"
<Directory "/local/www/path">
Require all granted
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /url-path
Redirect permanent https://new.website.base.url/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !full.website.base.URL
RewriteRule ^.*$ https://full.website.base.URL%{REQUEST_URI} [R]
<Files "cron.php">
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /url-path/cron.php$ [NC]
RewriteRule "^/url-path/cron.php$"
http://full.website.base.URL%{REQUEST_URI} [L]
</Files>
</Directory>
and for good measure, I put .htaccess in the local www path:
RewriteEngine On
Redirect permanent https://new.website.base.url/
