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Multiple Domains for one website

  • Posted August 30, 2014

Hi,

I want to have 1 drupal site with 2 domains i.e. .com .com.au.

I have setup my dns for the .com just the basic dns setup and pointed the domains at the DO nameservers. The .com is now resolving but the .com.au which I have also created dns for does not resolve.

I have tried to add vhosts file to the apache server but this has not worked.

PLease any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Regards

Oliver

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Adam Robertson • August 31, 2014

I am still figuring out the best approach for this kind of thing, but I have managed it two different ways:

  1. use the 000-default.conf file for the first domain (rather than creating a separate conf file) …this makes that domain the default website, and unconfigured domains will point to that site

  2. A different approach I have done is to set up a conf file for the second domain, and then in that directory for the second domain I put an .htaccess file that redirects to the first site. The .htaccess file has this in it:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^firstdomain.com.au$ [OR]
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.firstdomain.com.au$
  RewriteRule (.*)$ https://firstdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

Of course, if your .au.com is not resolving at all, it might just need a little more time if you have only recently made DNS changes.

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Ve Be • November 23, 2015

without ssh is working. I will work to get the second start ssl certificate and to try also with it.

Ve Be • November 23, 2015

my idea is to have 2 very similar .conf files for both domains and only the certificates to point to their specific location. In my case it is about startssl certificates. I will give it a try…

Ve Be • November 23, 2015

I would like to extend this question with another detail: how will this work in case the 2 domains are secured with (different) ssl certificates?

thank you.

Moisey Uretsky • September 6, 2014

Since you mentioned this in the LAMP category the easiest way to do this is to point the domains to the same IP address.

Then inside of your VirtualHost just add the following:

ServerName domain.com
ServerAlias www.domain.com domain.au.com www.domain.au.com

And you’re all set!