Re: Redirection confusion (Apache Users)

Slightly off-topic: You mentioned you had tried AI and their suggested solutions didn't work.

FYI, I had been posting a problem with Apache and a problem with "undefined symbol".

Thankfully, I eventually got information that let me get past that from USERS (real people) on this mailing list, but I had also gotten an AI response from Google AI during one of the Google searches I did during my research, that had filled me with hope (it said there was an "optional" parameter on the Apache LoadModule directive), but when I tried doing that, I got an error from Apache saying that LoadModule only took the expected 2 parameters.

So moral of the story: Be skeptical about AI responses ;)!!

Jim

On Saturday, February 8, 2025 at 05:32:10 AM EST, Mike Dewhirst <miked@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have a number of domain names which I want to redirect in order to have a single search engine site.

mysite.com
mysite.com.au
mysite.au
www.mysite.com
www.mysite.com.au
www.mysite.au

I want mysite.com to be the single site for seo purposes. I want any of the above to force redirection to mysite.com and not display the user-entered domain.

Not only have I researched this via the docs I have asked three different AIs and none of their solutions work as desired despite seemingly complying with the docs. I have to accept the blame for the prompts.

Here is my best guess at a proper redirection for all domain names ...

files: mysite.com.conf, www.mysite.com.conf, mysite.com.au.conf, www.mysite.com.au.conf, mysite.au.conf, www.mysite.au.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName mysite.com
    ServerAlias www.mysite.com mysite.com.au www.mysite.com.au mysite.au www.mysite.au
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
    Redirect permanent / https://mysite.com/
</VirtualHost>
end file mysite.com.au

All have been enabled (a2ensite ...) on Ubuntu 2024.04 LTS server

The main conf file for mysite.com is mysite.com-le-ssl.conf and it has the *:443 configuration.

Many thanks for any education/clarification in layman terms.

Cheers

Mike