Apache Settings only for domain redirection

Ilia's picture
Submitted by Ilia on Wed, 04/03/2013 - 04:47

Do you think is this safe to have such manual record in Apache conf without anything else:

<VirtualHost 1.2.3.4:80 1.2.3.5:80>
ServerName my-domain.ru
ServerAlias www.my-domain.ru
RedirectMatch /(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.ru
</VirtualHost>

Nothing else but these strings and few strings in BIND?

Status: 
Closed (fixed)

Comments

Submitted by andreychek on Wed, 04/03/2013 - 08:25

Sure, you can have an Apache section for redirecting, that shouldn't cause any problems.

However, when you setup a Virtual Server for my-domain.ru, it automatically includes "www" as part of that Virtual Server.

Rather than manually creating a new VirtualHost section in the Apache config for a redirect, you could always just make a .htaccess file in your my-domain.ru Virtual Server that looks like this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.my-domain.ru [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://my-domain.ru/$1 [L,R=301]

That will perform a redirect from the "www" version of the site to the non-www version.

Ilia's picture
Submitted by Ilia on Wed, 04/03/2013 - 10:35

I see! But it feels easier to do it directly!

Thanks!