Website redirection

[till]

The ispconfig redirect function is made to redirect a domain to a directory only. What you try to do is a typical redirect as it is used by cms systems in .htaccess files and should be added to a .htaccess file.

[hotze.com]

Originally Posted by till

The ispconfig redirect function is made to redirect a domain to a directory only. What you try to do is a typical redirect as it is used by cms systems in .htaccess files and should be added to a .htaccess file.

well, currently we do it manually in apache:

<VirtualHost 192.168.3.4>
ServerName www.foo.bar
Redirect permanent / http://www.otherfoo.bar/bla/blubb/lalelu.html
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/redirect-access.log combined
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/redirect-error.log
</VirtualHost>

... and this is what I try to also solve directly in ISPConfig. The "only redirect to directories" is, AFAIK, not an Apache rule.

[till]

The "only redirect to directories" is, AFAIK, not an Apache rule.

Of course, as you do this not in the intended way. Your way is for servers that dont have ispconfig installed.

The correct way(s) for ISPConfig servers are e.g:

1) Add www.foo.bar as website or as aliasdomain of another wesbite in ISPConfig.

2a) Then either add a file named .htaccess in the web directory of the website containing just one line:

Redirect permanent / http://www.otherfoo.bar/bla/blubb/lalelu.html

2b) Or you add this line:

Redirect permanent / http://www.otherfoo.bar/bla/blubb/lalelu.html

in the apache directives field of the website in ISPConfig, which is on the options tab.

[hotze.com]

as for option 2b: thanks ... better than nothing :-)
means: at least doable as admin within ISPconfig.

the customer (still) has no option to change the settings (only with option 2a).

[vaio]

Hello, i have a question.

If i use L redirect under website settings, this means that it redirects to different site, but preserves web address?

Example:
www.WEB1.tld -> www.websiteone.tld, but showing WEB1.tld as url

(i have tried that, but shows websiteone.tld as url).

Should i use different settings?
Thank you for advice!

V.

[till]

L means that this is the last rule in the redirect process.Please see apache rewrite docs for a detailed description of the flags:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current...d_rewrite.html

(See section Flag and Syntax at the end of the page).

[vaio]

Thank you Till for pointing that out.

I believe there is a small bug in 3.0.4.3:
1. i have created website and added redirection to other - works OK
2. i have than removed this redirection - shows like no redirection, but it still redirects... - i think it didn't remove redirection as it should, still redirects to other site /on monitor system log was completed

I will completely remove site, than add it again and hopefully it will solve this problems. I just need to make backups etc first.

Will report back!
V.

[till]

There is no such bug and there is no need to remove the site. Just close your browser or empty the browser cache as the browser remembers the redirect. Beside that, ensure that you waited until the jobqueue in the monitor is empty as it takes some time until the changes are written to disk.