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How to use mod_rewrite to redirect a URL
I'm trying to find the best way of accomplishing the following:
I have 2 separate web servers, let's call them abc.com and xyz.com.
The server hosting xyz.com is being decommissioned, but there are still active links pointing to it that my customers may continue to use.
Some of the customer links point directly to a perl script with embedded variables, something like this:
https://www.xyz.com/perl/scriptname.pl?var1=1&var2=1
Once I point the xyz.com domain to the server hosting abc.com, I'd like the above URL to be redirected to:
https://www.abc.com/perl/scriptname.pl?var1=1&var2=1
It makes no difference to me whether the end users sees the change in domain name, but I don't want them to get an SSL warning or error.
Is the best way to handle this to use a rewrite rule, an alias, or some other method? Please be as specific as possible with rewrite rules -- my skills are beginner in using mod_rewrite.
Thanks!
I have 2 separate web servers, let's call them abc.com and xyz.com.
The server hosting xyz.com is being decommissioned, but there are still active links pointing to it that my customers may continue to use.
Some of the customer links point directly to a perl script with embedded variables, something like this:
https://www.xyz.com/perl/scriptname.pl?var1=1&var2=1
Once I point the xyz.com domain to the server hosting abc.com, I'd like the above URL to be redirected to:
https://www.abc.com/perl/scriptname.pl?var1=1&var2=1
It makes no difference to me whether the end users sees the change in domain name, but I don't want them to get an SSL warning or error.
Is the best way to handle this to use a rewrite rule, an alias, or some other method? Please be as specific as possible with rewrite rules -- my skills are beginner in using mod_rewrite.
Thanks!
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You can just move everything.
And is it possible to have certificates for both domain names in the same crt file?No, each cert needs to be seperate
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Ok, I'm a little confused about this part. I will have no need to segregate the two sites on the new server. I was planning to just point the old domain (xyz.com) to the same IP of the server hosting abc.com. Can I use a ServerAlias in my apache config in the same virtualhost for xyz.com? How then would I specify the location of separate SSL certificate files?
I'm thinking my virtualhost directive would look something like this:
<VirtualHost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:443>
ServerName abc.com
ServerAlias xyz.com
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl/abc.cr
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl/ssl.ke
</VirtualHost>
I'm thinking my virtualhost directive would look something like this:
<VirtualHost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:443>
ServerName abc.com
ServerAlias xyz.com
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl/abc.cr
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl/ssl.ke
</VirtualHost>
Ok you can point both domains to the same document root, then in your htaccess setup the redirect condition based on the old domain name
But you can't have one cert for two different domains which is where you are stuck since you are using SSL for the site.
But you can't have one cert for two different domains which is where you are stuck since you are using SSL for the site.
ASKER
What if I pointed xyz to a different IP on the new box and and had a virtualhost section for xyz that used the same document root as abc but pointed to a different ssl certificate? Would that work?
That's what I was saying above.
ASKER
Got it -- thanks for your help!
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