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!
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.
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).