Hi - what is the easiest way to set up a subdomain like apps.domain.com which I would want to redirect to https://www.google.com/a/domain.com ? I have tried a few things but cannot get it to work. Thank you!
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I may have answered my own question. This approach seems to work, although, there may be a better alternative.
Set up the following DNS entry at domain.com
apps.hfadm.org. IN CNAME @
And then create / modify .htaccess as follows:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
Options FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^apps.domain.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ redirectToGoogle.html [L]
</IfModule>
And then create redirectToGoogle.html and forward to the desired site
<html>
<head>
<META http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://yoursitehere.com">
</head>
</html>
Cool. I looked around for a solution when I saw your question. most of what I tried didn’t work. Nice work.
A better option would be creating a separate virtualhost for apps.domain.com (see How To Set Up Apache Virtual Hosts on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS | DigitalOcean) with the following config:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName apps.domain.com
Redirect permanent / https://www.google.com/a/domain.com
</VirtualHost>
You will still need to create the DNS record, though.
Tried man but this isn’t working. I created A record like subdomain.main.com pointing to IP and I setup the virtual host file and restarted apache. Can you please lay it down step by step so I can figure out where I missed? Please?
What happens when you browse to subdomain.main.com? Do you get an error? If so, can you post it? Also, where did you create the virtual host file?
Hey appreciate the reply, I figured it out. The virtual file code you mentioned above works. I missed out to enable the virtual host file use a2ensite so it was my miss. But this works. Thanks a lot for the solution, greatly appreciate it :)
kamain7 i tried doing what you suggested with no success. could you assist me?
@galvax: Have you restarted Apache after adding the virtualhost?
sudo service apache2 restart
Did you create a DNS record for apps.domain.com that points to your droplet?
That worked! but now, i want to mask the ip address so that instead of redirecting you to the ip address, i want to show the url as a subdomain. To do that i enter this into my DNS records.
mysubdomain IN A 192.168.1.100
cloud.mydomain.com CNAME mysubdomain
Unfortunately this does not seem to work, Is there something wrong in my configuration? i am aware the ip address i put is a local one (i replaced it).