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Reply to topic   Topic: Redirect is ignoring rewriteRule
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dzen



Joined: 15 Jun 2015
Posts: 8
Location: United State, Chicago
PostPosted: Mon 15 Jun '15 22:35    Post subject: Redirect is ignoring rewriteRule Reply with quote
So I am running Apache 2.4 on Windows Server 2008. My Virtualhost looks kinda like this:

Code:
<VirtualHost *.80>
    ServerName www.site1.org
    ServerAlias www2.site1.org
    ServerAlias server1.org
    ServerAlias *.site2.com
    ServerAlias *.site2.org
    ..... 15 more aliases
    Include z:/place/redirects.site
   
    RewriteEngine On

    # redirect 1 group
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?site2\.com\/Thing\/ [OR]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?site2\.com\/thing\/
    RewriteRule .* http://www.site1.org/stuff/Thingstuff.php [R=302,L]

    # redirect 2 group
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?site2\.com [OR]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*\.site2\.com
    RewriteRule .* http://www.site1.org/fun [R=302,L]

    ----- six more redirect groups
</VirtualHost>


So here is the problem. When I have both these redirect groups in the code, redirect 2 group only works and www.site2.com/Thing goes to www.site1/fun. When I comment out redirect 2 group. The redirect 1 group works fine, but redirect 2 group only goes to http://www.site1.org. I can't figure out what is going on here. Why can't I get both these to work at the same time?
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James Blond
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Joined: 19 Jan 2006
Posts: 7373
Location: Germany, Next to Hamburg
PostPosted: Wed 17 Jun '15 17:24    Post subject: Reply with quote
Did you copy the rewrite rules correctly?

Cause the first and second conditions are the same in redirect 1 group.

Why don't you ask in the first condition for the host and in the second condition for the requested url?
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dzen



Joined: 15 Jun 2015
Posts: 8
Location: United State, Chicago
PostPosted: Wed 17 Jun '15 22:26    Post subject: mistake Reply with quote
James Blond
Thanks for the response.

Answer to question one: I copied it correctly. I am pretty new to the apache and I thought that it needed to be case sensitive.

Answer to question two: I rewrote the conditions this way
Code:

    # redirect 1 group
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?site2\.com\/Thing\/
    RewriteRule .* http://www.site1.org/stuff/Thingstuff.php [R=302,L]

    # redirect 2 group
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(www\.)?site2\.com [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*\.site2\.com
    RewriteRule .* http://www.site1.org/fun [R=302,L]


And the response was that group 1 redirect functioned correctly, but group 2 redirected to www.site1.org rather than www.site1.org/fun.
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James Blond
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Location: Germany, Next to Hamburg
PostPosted: Thu 18 Jun '15 10:42    Post subject: Reply with quote
Whoos I did not see the "Thing and thing". Yes it is case sensitive.
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dzen



Joined: 15 Jun 2015
Posts: 8
Location: United State, Chicago
PostPosted: Thu 18 Jun '15 16:30    Post subject: No worries, be happy Reply with quote
James, no worries. Thanks for just looking at this.

I have tried this, with no different outcome.

Code:

    # redirect 1 group
    Redirect "http://www.site2.com/Thing" "http://www.site1.org/stuff/Thingstuff.php"

    # redirect 2 group
    Redirect "http://www.site2.com" "http://www.site1.org/fun"


The result doing it this way was that redirect 1 group worked as expected, but the redirect 2 group went to www.site1.org not www.site1.org/fun. If I comment out redirect 1 group, redirect 2 group works as expected.
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glsmith
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Joined: 16 Oct 2007
Posts: 2268
Location: Sun Diego, USA
PostPosted: Thu 18 Jun '15 21:02    Post subject: Reply with quote
You were close the first time but you didn't pick up on james's request_uri comment.

the http_host is either site2.com or www.site2.com, so tacking on the /Thing would never match. On your second rewrite, www.site2.com is not part of the request_uri, it's the http_host. /Thing is the request_uri.

These both work for me, from site2.com's vhost config (or an htaccess file in site2.com's documentroot. The Redirects are typically cheaper than rewriting.

Code:
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?site2\.com

    # redirect 1 group
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/Thing
    RewriteRule .* http://www.site1.org/stuff/Thingstuff.php [R=302,L]

    # redirect 2 group
    RewriteRule .* http://www.site1.org/fun [R=302,L]
or
Code:
    # redirect 1 group
    Redirect "/Thing" "http://www.site1.org/stuff/Thingstuff.php"

    # redirect 2 group
    Redirect "/" "http://www.site1.org/fun"
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James Blond
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Joined: 19 Jan 2006
Posts: 7373
Location: Germany, Next to Hamburg
PostPosted: Mon 22 Jun '15 17:49    Post subject: Reply with quote
IIRC 2.4 offers the the if statements.

Code:

<If "$req{Host} != 'www.example.com'">
    RedirectMatch (.*) http://www.example.com$1
</If>


or more oldschool

Code:

<If "%{HTTP_HOST} == 'example.com'">
Redirect permanent / http://www.example.com
</If>
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dzen



Joined: 15 Jun 2015
Posts: 8
Location: United State, Chicago
PostPosted: Fri 26 Jun '15 17:33    Post subject: Reply with quote
glsmith,

I tried doing it your way, but I got errors when I tested the file. I will post the errors latter today.
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dzen



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Posts: 8
Location: United State, Chicago
PostPosted: Fri 26 Jun '15 19:02    Post subject: Mr. Blond Reply with quote
Mr. Blond,

Your last suggestion. The old school suggestion just gave me the same results as my other attempts. Thanks for the suggestions everyone. Still working on this.
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glsmith
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Joined: 16 Oct 2007
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Location: Sun Diego, USA
PostPosted: Fri 26 Jun '15 20:30    Post subject: Reply with quote
It's the 26th and I don't see the errors but I did test it and it worked for me based on what you gave. It did however work too well, for instance

www.site2.com/images still landed at www.site1.org/fun, this could probably be worked around.

One thing that might help (since this is 2.4) is in your httpd.conf change

LogLevel Warn
to
LogLevel Warn rewrite:debug

or for redirect
LogLevel Warn alias:debug

or go for broke
LogLevel Warn alias:debug rewrite:debug

The rewrite at debug will show you how it's thinking and making decisions based on what you have configured. Can be helpful sometimes.
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dzen



Joined: 15 Jun 2015
Posts: 8
Location: United State, Chicago
PostPosted: Fri 26 Jun '15 22:51    Post subject: Mr. Blond Reply with quote
It is the 26th. At least for a couple more hours. I will take the logging advise and change the levels. I will start small. I don't need to flood the log files.

Baby steps Sparks. Baby steps.
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glsmith
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Joined: 16 Oct 2007
Posts: 2268
Location: Sun Diego, USA
PostPosted: Sat 27 Jun '15 4:49    Post subject: Reply with quote
Good quote from "Contact."
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