When adding subdomain it's redirecting back to main domain / Ubuntu 16.04 / Apache

Question

Having problem with my subdomain. Did everything by tutorial and now my subdomain is redirected to main domain. I do not have much experience with this kind of stuff so help would be appreciated. And main domain has SSL so maybe that’s the problem or my hover settings for subdomain are wrong?

demo.domain.com.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin admin@demo.domain.com
    ServerName demo.domain.com
    ServerAlias www.demo.domain.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/demo.domain.com/public_html
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

etc/hosts

myIPadress demo.domain.com

Hover domain

@ A myIPadress 	

*  A myIPadress 	

mail  CNAME	mail.hover.com.cust.hostedemail.com	

@ MX 10 mx.hover.com.cust.hostedemail.com	

www CNAME	domain.com	

www CNAME	demo.domain.com

verse · Accepted Answer

So finally got it right. Now it’s working.

Changed

www CNAME demo.domain.com

to

demo.domain.com.  A myIPaddress

And added .htaccess in directory

RewriteEngine on

# redirect to https www
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)(domain\.com)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ https://www.%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

# redirect to http subdomain
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^((?!www).+\.demo.domain\.com)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

afghanwaziri0 · Answer

The following steps worked for me.1: add virtual host like the following with chmod 664 and chown www-data:www-data ServerAdmin youemail@sth.com DocumentRoot /var/www/subdomain ServerName subdomain.hashmatwaziri.com ServerAlias www.subdomain.hashmatwaziri.com Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Require all granted ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined DirectoryIndex index.php index.pl index.cgi index.html index.xhtml index.htm RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =hashmatwaziri.com RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent] 2: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot (add the repository)3: sudo apt install python-certbot-apache (Install Certbot’s Apache package with apt) 4 : type “certbot”5: select the newly created virtual host6: and you are all good to go. cheers

Marko Mudrinić · Answer

Did you enabled your VirtualHost? As I see, you created new file for subdomain VH, if you did it - you need to enable it using a2ensite:

sudo a2ensite demo.domain.com

Make sure to restart after any change you do to the config:

sudo systemctl restart apache2

Try to access subdomain again. If you still see wrong page, try clearing cache or going to Incognito mode.

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