[SOLVED] Apache Rewrite Userdir's

deathsfriend99 · 04-04-2016, 06:28 PM

So this is kind of complicated. I have a CentOS6 box with apache. We recently changed domain names, but want to keep the old domain for legacy purposes.
www.olddomain.company.com > www.newdomain.company.com

I use mod_userdir so users have their own public_html space.
I want www.olddomain.company.com/~username to go to www.newdomain.company.com/~username

Here's where it gets a bit tricky. www.olddomain.company.com still exists as a virtuahost on the same server. I want those to stay where they are. I just want to rewrite the /~usernames.

I've tried different permutations of RewriteCond and RewriteRule with no luck.

Any suggestions?

bathory · 04-05-2016, 02:05 AM

Hi,

Quote:

I want www.olddomain.company.com/~username to go to www.newdomain.company.com/~username

Here's where it gets a bit tricky. www.olddomain.company.com still exists as a virtuahost on the same server. I want those to stay where they are. I just want to rewrite the /~usernames.

So you want to rewrite only the request for userdirs to the new domain.
If that's the case, you can use the following:

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.olddomain.company.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/~(.+)
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.company.com/~%1[L,R=301]

Regards

deathsfriend99 · 04-05-2016, 08:50 AM

Thanks. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong. I can't get mod_rewrite to work at all.

It is loaded

Code:

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

Here are the relevant lines of my httpd.conf

Code:

<VirtualHost 999.999.999.999:80>
ServerName www.newdomain.company.com:80
ServerAlias www.newdomain.company.com:80
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.cgi index.pl index.php index.xhtml 
DocumentRoot "/www/html"

<Directory "/www/html">
Options +Includes ExecCGI +FollowSymLinks +Indexes 
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all

RewriteEngine on 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.olddomain.company.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/~(.+)
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.company.com/~%1[L,R=301]

</Directory>

What could I be doing wrong here?

bathory · 04-05-2016, 03:29 PM

Hi

Quote:

Perhaps I'm doing something wrong. I can't get mod_rewrite to work at all.

You should put the rewrite stuff inside:

Code:

<Directory /home/*/public_html>
...
</Directory

deathsfriend99 · 04-06-2016, 09:10 AM

I'm using mod_userdir for user directories. They are nfs mounted.

Code:

<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
    
    UserDir public_html
    
</IfModule>

So I don't have a <Directory> listing for these.

deathsfriend99 · 04-06-2016, 11:00 AM

Ok, Finally got it. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

I was putting the rewrite in the <virtualhost> of the newdomain.company.com
It needs to be in the olddomain.company.com's virtualhost section.
That makes sense, but I just didn't think of it.

Code:

<VirtualHost 999.999.999.999:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@olddomain.company.com
    DocumentRoot /www/html/oldcompany
    ServerName olddomain.company.com
    ServerAlias www.olddomain.company.com
    ErrorLog logs/olddomain

<Directory /www/html/oldcompany>
	AllowOverride All
	Options ExecCGI Includes FollowSymlinks +Indexes
	Order allow,deny
	Allow from all
RewriteEngine on 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.olddomain.company.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/~(.+)
RewriteRule (.*) http://newdomain.company.com/~%1 [L,R=301]

</Directory>