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Amit Nandan Periyapatna
Amit Nandan Periyapatna

Reputation: 767

301 on ServerAlias goes to ServerName domain

I have the following virtual host configuration: 

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName www.something.com
  ServerAlias something1.com
  Include conf/vhost/www.something.com-rewrites.conf
</VirtualHost>

Under the www.something.com-rewrites.conf file:

RewriteRule ^/apps/(.*)$ / [R=301,L,E=cache_redirect:1]

If there is a request for something1.com/apps/, I see that the redirect is happening but the URL is getting changed to www.something.com

I don't understand this strange behavior and also is their any other way that I can prevent this behavior?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 691

Answers (3)

Jamie W
Jamie W

Reputation: 171

Set the UseCanonicalName value to Yes/On for the virtual host - that will use the ServerName value in the 301s generated by mod_dir. Add origin. as a ServerAlias

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/core.html#usecanonicalname

Upvotes: 0

muttonUp
muttonUp

Reputation: 6727

If your site is running a CMS like wordpress, it uses the domain it was installed on as the Main domain and will redirect to that Main domain regardless of whatever your ServerAlias and ServerMain settings are.

Upvotes: 0

covener
covener

Reputation: 17896

Sound like you have a non-default value for UseCanonicalName OR your client is HTTP/1.0 and not sending a Host: header.

Upvotes: 0

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