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Lelouch
Lelouch

Reputation: 2193

.htaccess is read but redirect not working

I am using apache + django + mod_wsgi as server. My goal is to redirect non-www url to www url.

I have the mod_rewrite enabled: when executing the command Module rewrite already enabled, I have

Module rewrite already enabled

The site.conf in sites-available reads

<VirtualHost *:80>
  # Admin email, Server Name (domain name), and any aliases

  ServerName  www.<site-name>.com
  RedirectMatch ^http://<site-name>.com/(.*)$ http://www.<site-name>.com/$1

</VirtualHost>

<Directory /var/www/<site-name>/app>
AllowOverride All
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
  Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "http://<site-name>.com"
</Directory>

The .htaccess file is located in the /var/www/<site-name>/app directory:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

If I put random code in .htaccess, the site will throw 500 error, but the redirect never works (it behaves in the following way instead):

Good that I can use @Finbarr's answer to achieve what I wanted. But then I am still interested in what leads to the above redirect behavior.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 605

Answers (1)

Finbarr
Finbarr

Reputation: 486

Personally I wouldnt modify the .htaccess file to do this when you have access to the conf file. I would create a separate virtualhost entry for the redirect and leave the main site virtualhost as normal. A typical redirect would look like this in the conf file.

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.yoursite.com
Redirect 301 / http://yoursite.com/
</VirtualHost>

Upvotes: 3

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