Topic: forbid root but allow virtual host

[phil1234]

hello everyone

I am renting a ovh host with apache installed on it

I wrote a rule like

RewriteRule ^/$ www.mydomain.be

but then my virtual host is not working anymore

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.mydomain.lu
DocumentRoot /var/www/mydomain/
<Directory /var/www/mydomain/>
#Order Deny,Allow
#Deny from all
Options -Indexes
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

If I remove the rewrite rule, it works

but

if I use nsxxxxxx.ovh.net host name I end up on the defautl "installation in progress page" instead of www.mydomain.be

so the thing is I want to host both .be and .lu sites and I dont want users to end up on the defaut apache page, but instead on the .be site

can someone help me out ?

thanks

[James Blond]

You should add conditions based on the host name

Like

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ....

[phil1234]

I dont really see how forcing the hostname will do the trick

[James Blond]

You can also add an default vhost and do there the redirect to one of your domains.

[phil1234]

nothing works

it's more a problem of domain name than rooting the default / access

<VirtualHost _default_:80>
ServerName www.domain1.be
Redirect 301 / http://www.domain1.be/
</VirtualHost>

besides, I noticed that if I do domain2.be instead of www.domain2.be, I also endup on the default installation page