Questions tagged [redirect]
HTTP or HTML mechanisms used for redirecting browsers to where the actual content is located
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In Nginx, how can I rewrite all http requests to https while maintaining sub-domain?
I want to rewrite all http requests on my web server to be https requests, I started with the following:
server {
listen 80;
location / {
rewrite ^(.*) https://mysite.com$1 ...
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Redirect, Change URLs or Redirect HTTP to HTTPS in Apache - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About mod_rewrite Rules but Were Afraid to Ask
This is a Canonical Question about Apache's mod_rewrite.
Changing a request URL or redirecting users to a different URL than the one they originally requested is done using mod_rewrite. This includes ...
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What’s the point in having “www” in a URL?
Other than for historical reasons, is there is reason to have “www” in a URL?
Should I create a permanent redirect from www.xyz.com to xyz.com, or from xyz.com to www.xyz.com? Which one would you ...
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How to force or redirect to SSL in nginx?
I have a signup page on a subdomain like: https://signup.example.com
It should only be accessible via HTTPS but I'm worried people might somehow stumble upon it via HTTP and get a 404.
My html/...
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Nginx Redirect via Proxy, Rewrite and Preserve URL
In Nginx we have been trying to redirect a URL as follows:
http://example.com/some/path -> http://192.168.1.24
where the user still sees the original URL in their browser. Once the user is ...
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Best way to redirect all HTTP to HTTPS in IIS
We want ALL sites on our webserver (IIS 10) to enforce SSL (ie redirect HTTP to HTTPS).
We are currently 'Requiring SSL' on each site and setting up a 403 error handler to perform a 302 redirect to ...
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How to get Apache2 to redirect to a subdirectory
I am running apache2 on Debian etch, with multiple virtual hosts.
I want to redirect so that http://git.example.com goes to http://git.example.com/git/
Should be really simple, but Google isn't ...
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Redirect URL within Apache VirtualHost?
I have a dedicated server with Apache, on which I've set up some VirtualHosts. I've set up one to handle the www domain as well as the non-www domain.
My VH .conf file for the www:
<VirtualHost *&...
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How to redirect root and only root via htaccess?
I want to redirect only my root to another url, but maintain all the /sub/directories where they belong (and redirect)
example:
mysite.com/1 redirects to somewhere
mysite.com/admin opens a page
i ...
jardel
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How to use DNS/Hostnames or Other ways to resolve to a specific IP:Port
This is a Canonical Question about DNS/Hostnames resolution to IPs/Ports
Example 1
I'm running a web server on port 80 and another on port 87. I would like to use DNS so that www.example.com goes to ...
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Capturing STDERR and STDOUT to file using tee
I'm unclear what the best order is to capture both STDERR and STDOUT to the same file using tee. I know that if I want to pipe to a file I have to map the filehandle after the redirect, i.e.
find . &...
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Simple apache2 redirect from one domain to another
What I want to do is the following:
My domain xy.example.com no longer exists. Thus I want to do a simple redirect to the new domain abc.example.com. It should be a redirect, that also works when ...
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Nginx - How to redirect users with certain IP to special page
I run quite a big image gallery and there are 5 visitors that create an enormous amount of traffic by downloading the whole site every day using webcopiers. Those visitors have static IPs as it seems. ...
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Examples of 302 vs 303
What is the difference between a 302 and 303 response?
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html
10.3.3 302 Found
10.3.4 303 See Other
Are these interchangeable or why would one be ...
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How do I redirect www to non-www in Route53?
I host my site at domain.com.
My DNS entries in Route53 are as follows:
domain.com A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 300
domain.com NS stuff.awsdns-47.org 172800
domain.com SOA ...
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how do I get nginx to forward HTTP POST requests via rewrite?
My iOS app is currently accessing domain A via http POST but I would like to forward all requests to domain B.
If I use the usual rewrite ^/(.*)$ http://mydomain/$1 permanent; the POST data seems ...
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Redirect all http requests behind Amazon ELB to https without using if
Currently I have an ELB serving both http://www.example.org and https://www.example.org.
I would like to set it up so any request pointing to http://www.example.org is redirect to https://www.example....
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Can you use Redirect and Proxypass at the same time
I am using Apache 2.2.15 on CentOS to provide SSL for a TomCat application.
ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:8090/ connectiontimeout=300 timeout=300
ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:8090
This works ...
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How to continue redirecting stdout to a file after logrotate moves it?
I have a simple script which outputs a bunch of logs to screen and I piped the STDOUT to a file to store the logs. Since this script is long running, I needed to rotate the log files so they are ...
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nginx rewrite for an url with parameters
I have an URL of this type:
http://www.example.com/?param1=val1¶m2=¶m3=val3¶m4=val4¶m5=val5
And I want to redirect it to this one:
http://www.example.com/newparam/...
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How do i reach IPv4 addresses from an IPv6-only network?
I would like to reach this address via an IPv6 address:
http://downloads.openwrt.org/attitude_adjustment/12.09/ar71xx/generic/packages/
In our Freifunk routers there is no DNS available, so the name ...
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How to redirect requests to a different domain/url with nginx
I'm trying to redirect all users coming to a URL "http://example.com/something" to a URL like "http://answares.com/examples_com/something".
I'm trying with code like this:
server {
listen 1.2.3.4:...
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Redirect all requests to HTTPS, except for one subdirectory
I'm trying to move from self-signed certificates to Let's Encrypt certificates on my nginx webserver.
Currently, I redirect all requests to http/80 to https/443, which uses a self signed certificate ...
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Is an SSL Cert needed for redirects?
We currently have a website set to redirect to a new address (our client changed domain names, but wants the old domain to send people to the new site) in IIS 8.5 using permanant redirects found in ...
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Nginx: Redirect IP address to domain name
With the following Nginx config:
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;
server_name isitmaintained.com;
...
}
server {
listen 178.62.136.230:80;
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How can I enforce that my urls always start with www?
I want to ensure that users come to www.mydomain.com even if they arrive through the alias mydomain.com. This is so that I have control over cookies on subdomains, and so that Google sees one single ...
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How to redirect all outgoing email from postfix to a single address for testing
I am setting up a testing server for a web based application that sends some email notifications.
Sometimes testing is performed with real customer data, and for that reason I need to guarantee that ...
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Nginx multiple roots
I'd like to divert off requests to a particular sub-directory, to another root location. How? My existing block is:
server {
listen 80;
server_name www.domain.com;
location / {
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Changing Servers - Redirect to new IP = No Downtime?
I am changing servers of my website. The IP of old server cannot be moved to the new one. To have no downtime I am planing to do the following, please someone confirm it will work:
Setup the new ...
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Apache2 - 301 Redirect when missing "/" at the end of directory in the url
I haven't really noticed this Redirect(301) when requesting a url like this without slash("/") at the end: http://server/directory
The server will respone with a 301 Redirect Permanent header with a ...
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How to redirect HTTP to HTTPS on AWS Application Load Balancer?
Our website needs HIPAA compliance so everything needs to be encrypted. I don't want client to get an error message when they put in "http://mysite.com", so I need to support both HTTP and HTTPS, and ...
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IIS URL Rewrite HTTP to HTTPS with Port
My website has two bindings: 1000 and 1443 (port 80/443 are in use by another website on the same IIS instance). Port 1000 is HTTP, port 1443 is HTTPS. What I want to do is redirect any incoming ...
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Redirect request to an external IP to localhost (emulate a server)
I got an application (no source code) calling a server (hard coded IP) and expecting an answer before starting (a kind of login).
Cause the server is down half of the time, I want to create a dummy ...
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Difference between "Redirect permanent" vs. mod_rewrite RewriteRule
This is an Apache httpd 2.2 server.
We require that access to this webserver be encrypted by HTTPS.
When web clients visit my site at http://www.example.org/$foo (port 80), I want to redirect their ...
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Convert and redirect URL in uppercase to lowercase using .htaccess
I would like to redirect a URL with uppercase characters http://localhost/A/B to a lowercase version http://localhost/a/b using the .htaccess file.
Using regex I can capture A and B but is it possible ...
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Temporarily redirect *all* HTTP/HTTPS requests in IIS to a "server maintenance" page
We've got an IIS server that hosts hundreds of separate web apps, and the physical database server that hosts these apps is going to be taken offline for maintenance for a brief period (we expect it ...
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Nginx redirect all old domain subdomains to new one
I had a very long domain, so I decided to change it to a shorter and more friendly one. But since I have a lot of subdomains (in fact, I have a subdomain wildcard), I wanted to keep the subdomain ...
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How to get Apache "Redirect" to stop appending full URL path to redirect target
If I edit the .htaccess file for a site, say oldsite.com, and put this:
Redirect permanent / http://newsite.com/page
It works fine if I surf to oldsite.com. But if I surf to oldsite.com/about, it ...
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nginx: rewrite all except one location
Right now my nginx is rewriting several domains to one main domain which we are using. Here's one rule from my config:
server {
listen X.X.X.X:80;
server_name .exampleblog.org;
rewrite ^(.*) ...
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SSL Certificate errors in Captive Portals
Situation: Hotel guests attempting internet access via our captive portal. Problem: Google, Yahoo and now more and more sites redirecting all home pages to HTTPS so guest gets a Certificate error when ...
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Nginx 1.2.2: How to get try_files to work?
I updated nginx recently to version 1.2.2 and the following entry seems to be broken; presumably a change in syntax between versions?
location / {
# First attempt to serve request as ...
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Is there a service that will redirect your naked domain.com requests to www.domain.com? [closed]
I know this is easy with a 301 redirect in the apache config, but I'm looking for a 3rd party service that can do this cheaply or free. I'll be using this to redirect non-www traffic to a www record I'...
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Amazon Cloudfront with S3 Redirect
I'm trying to do something that should be relatively straight-forward - I want to setup a few domains and subdomains to redirect to the core domain for our site, but I want to put the redirects out on ...
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nginx unwanted location redirect with trailing slash
I have a location
location /pass/ {
proxy_pass http://localhost:12345/;
}
So it is supposed to proxify urls http://example.com/pass/whatever to http://localhost:12345/whatever
The thing I don't ...
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Redirecting from one nginx to another
I have got two servers (A and B) with NGINX. Server A is serving old site and server B is serving a new site. I've updated my DNS but it is quite slow: in my office I still see my old site:
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Nginx redirect from old domain to new with ssl
I am trying to change the domain name for my site from https://www.myolddomain.se/ to https://www.mynewdomain.se/
The problem is that for my old domain I forced SSL on all pages and therefore all ...
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Apache redirect and set cache headers?
Doing a redirect in Apache is easy (mod_alias):
RedirectMatch ^.*$ http://portal.example.com/
Setting cache headers is equally easy:
Header set Cache-Control max-age=0
Header set Expires "Thu, 01 ...
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HowTo redirect HTTP to HTTPS on the same httpd?
Here is what I have got:
CentOS 5.4 (32-bit)
installed Apache httpd (Server version: Apache/2.2.11 (Unix))
mod_rewrite already presents
Question: how to redirect simple http://site.com to https://...
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nginx redirect to www.domain
I want to redirect the site ALWAYS to www.site.com. However, I am not sure as to how to get the WWW to always show up in front should say someone type in the domain without the www.
EDIT:
server {
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Apache: Redirect 404 and ErrorDocument 404 difference
I would like to do a 404 redirect with Apache, and I find several solutions:
The .htaccess method. But I don't want to add a .htaccess if not necessary.
virtual host method:
<VirtualHost *:80>
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