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JohnnyFromBF
Asked: 2011-12-29 00:29:01 +0800 CST

Simple apache2 redirect from one domain to another

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What I want to do is the following:

My domain xy.example.com no longer exists. Thus I want to do a simple redirect to the new domain abc.example.com. It should be a redirect, that also works when someone types in the browser bar http://xy.example.com/team.php - than it shoul redirect to http://abc.example.com/team.php

I've already tried a few things, but it didn't really work. What do I have to put in the Apache 2 config?

apache-2.2 url redirect domain

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You can use the RedirectPermanent directive to redirect the client to your new URL.

    Just create a very simple VirtualHost for the old domain in which you redirect it to the new domain:

    <VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName xy.example.com
    RedirectPermanent / http://abc.example.com/
    # optionally add an AccessLog directive for
    # logging the requests and do some statistics
</VirtualHost>
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  2. Create or edit a .htaccess inside your DocumentRoot. Add

    RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://abc.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

    Additionally I would change the ServerName directive to the new domain and leave a ServerAlias with the old domain.

    ServerName abc.example.com
ServerAlias xy.example.com
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  3. VH is OK if you can do it, but not really a drop-in solution.

    I prefer using If:

    <If "%{HTTP_HOST} == 'old.example.com'">
    Redirect "/" "https://new.example.com/"
</If>

    This is something you could use in the same place you define ServerAlias. And should work fine in multi-tenant environment.

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