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Peter White
Peter White

Reputation: 1086

Why does this mod_rewrite directive not work?

Due to a server migration, I'm attempting to direct all URI's starting with /rc, /roundcube, /sm, or /squirrelmail to https://webmail.{HTTP_HOST} using the following mod_rewrite code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?(.*)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(rc|roundcube|sm|squirrelmail)(\/)?(.*)?$
RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://webmail.%1 [R=302, L]

Because I want this redirection to affect all virtual hosts on the machine, I'm putting it in the virtual host directive inside the httpd.conf file of Apache.

The server does have mod_rewrite enabled, but this above seems to do nothing at all!

Perhaps someone can spot my error?

An example of the intended result is:

http://www.mydomain.com/rc --> https://webmail.mydomain.com

It should be able to handle the task with or without the www or the trailing / and maybe parameters included when users bookmarked the original URL.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 171

Answers (1)

Jon Lin
Jon Lin

Reputation: 143906

I think if you simply put that in the httpd.conf file, there is no context for the rule. Try wrapping it in a location or directory (location probably better):

<Location "/">
  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(rc|roundcube|sm|squirrelmail)(/)?(.*)?$
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?(.*)$
  RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://webmail.%2 [R=302,L]
</Location>

and get rid of the space after R=302,

Upvotes: 1

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