Hi all, it's been a while since I setup a webserver on a VPS and am having a few challenges, hopefully you can help? Please note example.com is apache default text, I have used 'mydomain' in place of my actual domain.
I'm using Apache2 which is the new version and does not have httpd anymore it uses
sites-available and
sites-enabled in /etc/apache2.
I've enabled let's encrypt for SSL but only one domain is working, redirects are failing even with .htaccess in /var/www/html/.htaccess and permission set to 644.
Code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)?(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ https://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [L,NE,R=301]
What I've done:
1. I setup two A records to point my one domain to my VPS IP for
mydomain.com and
www.mydomain.com
2. I created a single sites-enabled example.conf (maybe my error is here and I need to create a second) which contains:
Code:
Alias /example "/var/www/mydomain/"
<Directory /var/www/mydomain/>
Options +FollowSymlinks
AllowOverride All
<IfModule mod_dav.c>
Dav off
</IfModule>
SetEnv HOME /var/www/mydomain
SetEnv HTTP_HOME /var/www/mydomain
</Directory>
There are two other .conf files present from install/setup and they read:
Code:
<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
<VirtualHost *:443>
# The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
# the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
# redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
# specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
# match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
# value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
# However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
#ServerName www.example.com
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
# Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
# error, crit, alert, emerg.
# It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
# modules, e.g.
#LogLevel info ssl:warn
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
# For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
# enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
# include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
# following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
# after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
#Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf
ServerName mydomain.com
Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf
ServerAlias www.mydomain.com
SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/privkey.pem
</VirtualHost>
</IfModule>
And
Code:
<VirtualHost *:80>
# The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
# the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
# redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
# specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
# match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
# value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
# However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
#ServerName www.example.com
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
# Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
# error, crit, alert, emerg.
# It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
# modules, e.g.
#LogLevel info ssl:warn
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
# For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
# enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
# include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
# following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
# after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
#Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =mydomain.com
RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]
</VirtualHost>
mydomain.com opens as SSL but I cannot redirect
www.mydomain.com to this SSL. Do I need to create another sites-available and sites-enabled for
www.mydomain.com? Perhaps with:
Code:
Alias /example "/var/www/www.mydomain/"
<Directory /var/www/www.mydomain/>
Options +FollowSymlinks
AllowOverride All
<IfModule mod_dav.c>
Dav off
</IfModule>
SetEnv HOME /var/www/www.mydomain
SetEnv HTTP_HOME /var/www/www.mydomain
</Directory>
Do I even need
.htaccess in this case with two sites setup correctly? I'm a bit confused and making a mess.. how should this be done?
