We're running Apache 2.0.46 on Red Hat kernel 2.4. We're trying to shorten the URL our clients have to use to connect to an application. We have three environments; development, test, and production. Our approach is to create a DNS entry in the format of environment.appname.domain and have it resolve to environment.webserver.domain and when they arrive look at what application they are seeking and redirect them to environment.webserver.domain/appname. We've got this working with the DNS as described and the following entry in the httpd.conf file.
<VirtualHost *>
ServerName test.appname.domain
ServerAlias *
Redirect permanent / https://testweb.domain/appname </VirtualHost>
Our problem is that if clients mistakenly enter https://test.appname.domain instead of http://test.appname.domain they are directed to the default page of https://testweb.domain which is the index.html file.
How can we fix this, and is there a better way to solve the original problem?
Thanks in advance for your help;
Ed
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