Re: Redirection confusion

[Mike Dewhirst <miked@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Frank and the owners of mysite.com please accept my apology for using that domain as an example. 

Thank you Frank for the advice. I will report back with results as soon as I can try it out.

Cheers

Mike

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From: Frank Gingras <thumbs@xxxxxxxxxx>

Date: 8/2/25 23:20 (GMT+10:00)

To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Redirection confusion

On Sat, Feb 8, 2025 at 5:32 AM Mike Dewhirst <miked@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have a number of domain names which I want to redirect in order to have a single search engine site.

mysite.com
mysite.com.au
mysite.au
www.mysite.com
www.mysite.com.au
www.mysite.au

I want mysite.com to be the single site for seo purposes. I want any of the above to force redirection to mysite.com and not display the user-entered domain.

Not only have I researched this via the docs I have asked three different AIs and none of their solutions work as desired despite seemingly complying with the docs. I have to accept the blame for the prompts.

Here is my best guess at a proper redirection for all domain names ...

files: mysite.com.conf, www.mysite.com.conf, mysite.com.au.conf, www.mysite.com.au.conf, mysite.au.conf, www.mysite.au.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName mysite.com
    ServerAlias www.mysite.com mysite.com.au www.mysite.com.au mysite.au www.mysite.au
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
    Redirect permanent / https://mysite.com/
</VirtualHost>
end file mysite.com.au

All have been enabled (a2ensite ...) on Ubuntu 2024.04 LTS server

The main conf file for mysite.com is mysite.com-le-ssl.conf and it has the *:443 configuration.

Many thanks for any education/clarification in layman terms.

Cheers

Mike

You don't need to use mod_rewrite for this, just use "Redirect permanent / https://mysite.com/".

That being said, those are not your domain name, and it's rude to use someone else's domain names.  Use example.tld if you must.

If you need help, you need to show apachectl -S, the URL you requested, and what happened, exactly.  Also, test with curl.