Re: Problem with Redirect

[Mitchell Krog Photography <mitchellkrog@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Blake, worth a shot, try this. I used to do my redirects like this but don't use Apache anymore but this worked perfect for me.

<VirtualHost *:80>

ServerName abc.com

ServerAlias *.abc.com

ServerAdmin me@xxxxxxx

        RewriteEngine On

        RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off

        RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?(.*)$ [NC]

        RewriteRule (.*) https://def.com/ghi/#about [END,QSA,R=permanent]

</VirtualHost>

or

<VirtualHost *:80>

ServerName abc.com

ServerAlias *.abc.com

ServerAdmin me@xxxxxxx

        RewriteEngine On

        RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off

        RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?(.*)$ [NC]

        RewriteRule (.*) https://def.com%{REQUEST_URI} [END,QSA,R=permanent]

</VirtualHost>

Kind Regards

Mitchell Krog

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From: Blake McBride <blake1024@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 08 July 2017 at 3:35:00 PM
To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:  [users@httpd] Problem with Redirect

Hello,

I am using Apache 2.4.18 on a 64 bit Linux box.  I am serving several different URL's via VirtualHost.  All is working well except a single, unique case.   In the case with the problem, I am attempting to redirect a URL to an external URL.  All the cases that work, I am hosting the site, but not in this one case.

Naturally, I own the domain name.  The DNS points to my server, but I want it redirected to a site I pay for but isn't hosted by my machine.  Under /etc/apache2/sites-enabled, I have:

<VirtualHost *:80>

ServerName abc.com

ServerAlias *.abc.com 

ServerAdmin me@xxxxxxx

Redirect / https://www.def.com/ghi#about

</VirtualHost>

Let's say the main URL for my machine is jkl.com.  Now, when I go to abc.com it ends up at jkl.com !!

Whenever I change the apache2 settings, I do:  apache2ctl restart

When, through my browser, I go to abc.com, I see the following under /var/log/other_vhosts_access.log:

jkl.com:80 174.195.128.13 - - [08/Jul/2017:13:31:07 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 2846 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36"

How the heck is access to abc.com showing as jkl.com?  How can I make abc.com redirect to the external server at URL https://www.def.com/ghi#about ?

Thanks so much for help!

Blake McBride