Routing SUPPORT.blah.com to blah.com/support.html

[EdwardMartinIII]

If I want support.blah.com to direct to blah.com, is that something I do on the server side? How might I do that?

Thanks!


Edward

"Cut a hole in the door. Hang a flap. Criminy, why didn't I think of this earlier?!" -- inventor of the cat door

 

[warpzero]

You could use a Rewriterule to achieve this. In the virtualhost for "support.blah.com" put the below rewriterule and cycle the webserver.

RewriteRule ^/

http://blah.com/

[R=301,L]

Michael

WarpZero Technologies

http://www.warpzero.com/

 

[SamBones]

Actually it's a bit more than that. First make sure your mod_rewrite module is being loaded...

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

Then it needs to be turned on...

RewriteEngine on
RewriteLog  /path/to/log/httpd_rewrite
RewriteLogLevel 0

Then the rules to catch "support.blah.com"...

RewriteCond  %{HTTP_HOST}  ^support.blah.com$    [NC]
RewriteRule  ^(.*)$        [URL unfurl="true"]http://blah.com/support.html[/URL] [R=301,L]

As you are testing, increase the RewriteLogLevel to get more information. The log file entries should help you debug what's going on.

 

[EdwardMartinIII]

Sorry for being a little dense, but I'm pretty new to this aspect of webbery.

Is this something I put in the .htaccess file, or something I execute once from a command line, or what?

Thanks!


Edward

"Cut a hole in the door. Hang a flap. Criminy, why didn't I think of this earlier?!" -- inventor of the cat door

 

[EdwardMartinIII]

Sorry, might not have asked that right.

This code is something that goes into the .htaccess file, or somewhere else?



Edward

"Cut a hole in the door. Hang a flap. Criminy, why didn't I think of this earlier?!" -- inventor of the cat door

 

[EdwardMartinIII]

...okay, I think so, based on more reading...


Edward

"Cut a hole in the door. Hang a flap. Criminy, why didn't I think of this earlier?!" -- inventor of the cat door

 

[EdwardMartinIII]

Holy chrome -- that Server Error 500'd the whole site!

Dang!

Good thing I could reverse it before my boss saw.

So, what's am I doing wrong? My .htaccess file contains this:

ErrorDocument 404 [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.blah.com/Error404.html[/URL]
ErrorDocument 403 [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.blah.com/Error404.html[/URL]
Options -Indexes
<Files .htaccess>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>

AddHandler server-parsed .html

Redirect permanent (a list of redirects...)

and I changed it to this:

ErrorDocument 404 [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.blah.com/Error404.html[/URL]
ErrorDocument 403 [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.blah.com/Error404.html[/URL]
Options -Indexes
<Files .htaccess>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>

AddHandler server-parsed .html

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
RewriteEngine on
RewriteLog  /path/to/log/httpd_rewrite
RewriteLogLevel 0
RewriteCond  %{HTTP_HOST}  ^support.blah.com$    [NC]
RewriteRule  ^(.*)$        [URL unfurl="true"]http://blah.com/support_request.html[/URL] [R=301,L]

Redirect permanent (a list of redirects...)

Am I missing something?



Edward

"Cut a hole in the door. Hang a flap. Criminy, why didn't I think of this earlier?!" -- inventor of the cat door