[users@httpd] Redirect Question

["Stuart, Ed" <Ed...@austinenergy.com>]

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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Re: [users@httpd] Redirect Question

[Victor Trac <vi...@gmail.com>]

If I'm reading this right, you could change <VirtualHost *> to <VirtualHost
*:80> and then have two separate VirtualHost containers , one listening for
http and one for https (second one being <VirtualHost *:443>), with the
exact same Redirect.  Using mod_rewrite may be a more elegant solution,
though.

-Victor

On 4/12/06, Stuart, Ed <Ed...@austinenergy.com> wrote:
>
> 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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