[SOLVED] Page redirect in Apache with mod_rewrite

moyorakkhi · 03-23-2012, 12:55 PM

Hello,

In our mail server there are multiple virtual email domain hosted. User can use webmail.example.com (this is the first apache virtualhost) to check mail or they can use mail.THEIR-DOMAIN.com. If the put mail.THEIR-DOMAIN.com apache shows the webmail.example.com as it is the first virtualhost and mail.THEIR-DOMAIN.com doesn't exist. Recently we imposed https for webmail.example.com and added this mod_rewrite rule:

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}

But now users not getting the default webmail page as they were getting before. How can we redirect all request coming to the URL "mail.ANY-DOMAIN.com" to "https://webmail.example.com"? I've tried the following but it didn't work:

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (mail.*) https://webmail.example.com

Sydney · 03-23-2012, 02:17 PM

# Add the rule
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteRule (mail.*) https://webmail.example.com

moyorakkhi · 03-23-2012, 03:13 PM

Hi Sydney,

Thanks for your response. It's not working actually. I've tried adding it on both webmail.example.com virtualhost entry as well as in httpd.com file. Traffic not redirecting to https://webmail.example.com.

Thanks again!

Sydney · 03-23-2012, 03:16 PM

I hope not to send you on a goose chase but I always have on in lower case.

moyorakkhi · 03-23-2012, 03:49 PM

Yeah. I also have "on" in lower case. But it's not happening.

Sydney · 03-23-2012, 04:28 PM

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
RewriteRule ^(mail.*)$ https://webmail.example.com [R]

moyorakkhi · 03-23-2012, 05:07 PM

Thanks for your help Sydney. I Got it working with the following:

Code:

<VirtualHost *:80>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mail. [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://webmail.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]
</VirtualHost>

I tried with your code as well. But didn't worked unfortunately.

Sydney · 03-23-2012, 05:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by moyorakkhi

Code:

<VirtualHost *:80>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mail. [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://webmail.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]
</VirtualHost>

I am glad you got it resolved! Thanks for posting your solution.