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Thomas Clowes
Asked: 2013-03-05 10:34:12 +0800 CST

Redirect nonwww and all other subdomains to www, EXCEPT media.domain.com

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I am using Apache, and would like to redirect all subdomain and non www addresses to the www version using Virtual Hosts.

The only exception to this rule is that I want media.domain.com to point to the same location as www.domain.com because I want a different, cookieless domain for images and video to be located on.. (speed).

The code below is not however working. How would one go about achieving this?

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName www.domain.com
        ServerAlias www.domain.com media.domain.com
        ServerAdmin [email protected]
        DocumentRoot /srv/www/domain.com
</VirtualHost>



<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName domain.com
ServerAlias domain.com
    Redirect permanent / http://www.domain.com/
</VirtualHost>
apache-2.2

1 Answers

  1. There are a couple of ways of doing this depending on if this is the only domain on the server or not.

    You can use a wildcard in the ServerAlias to do a catch all on a domain like below

    <VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName www.domain.com
        ServerAlias www.domain.com media.domain.com
        ServerAdmin [email protected]
        DocumentRoot /srv/www/domain.com
</VirtualHost>



<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName domain.com
ServerAlias *.domain.com domain.com
    Redirect permanent / http://www.domain.com/
</VirtualHost>

    If this is the only domain on the server then you can use a default vhost

    <VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName www.domain.com
        ServerAlias www.domain.com media.domain.com
        ServerAdmin [email protected]
        DocumentRoot /srv/www/domain.com
</VirtualHost>



<VirtualHost _default_:80>
    ServerName domain.com
    Redirect permanent / http://www.domain.com/
</VirtualHost>

    in both cases the default or wildcard will match unless there is a more specific vhost.

    In response to the comment can you try.

    <VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName www.domain.com
        ServerAlias www.domain.com media.domain.com
        ServerAdmin [email protected]
        DocumentRoot /srv/www/domain.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName media.domain.com
        ServerAlias media.domain.com
        ServerAdmin [email protected]
        DocumentRoot /srv/www/domain.com
</VirtualHost>    

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName domain.com
ServerAlias *.domain.com domain.com
    Redirect permanent / http://www.domain.com/
</VirtualHost>
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