redirect http://*.olddomain.com to https://*.old-domain.com

[csgonan]

I need to redirect all references to *.olddomain.com to

https://*.old-domain.com

(with a dash). The site is a wildcard and they can enter anything for * so they have to not lose the vaue of * when redirecting.

I also need to redirect all references of

http://*.old-domain.com

to

https://*.old-domain.com.

Again I do not want to lose the value of * that they typed in.

I can do this with redirect or rewrite, whichever is easier please.

Thank you

 

[Noway2]

It looks to me like you have already answered your own question: use redirect or rewrite rule, which ever is easier.

Off hand, I don't recall if redirect accepts wild cards, but of the two rules it is (IMHO) easier to use.

If redirect doesn't accomplish what you are after, rewrite most certainly would. I would suggest using a regex to pattern match the string. I am not an expert in regex but I think you would want to use something like .*/.old-domain/.com to match zero or more of any character followed by old-domain.com. If that is too generic, or your regex pattern matcher is greedy (i.e. .* matches too much) then try a more refined search like [^/t .]* (not white space and not a .).

You won't loose the value of what matched to *, rather it will be available as a variable, such as $1. You will need to read the documentation.

If you are looking for info on the regular expressions, the book Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeff Friedl(? - I think) is pretty good.