Redirect a website.

  • hack3rcon

    (@hack3rcon)


    4 years, 7 months ago

    Hello,
    I had a WordPress website and changed my domain name from “example1.com” to “example2.com” and reconfigured my Apache web server too. When I enter “example2.com” in my browser, then it forward to “example1.com”.
    Can WordPress configuration do it? If no, then can it a DNS or… problem? My Linux server doesn’t have any DNS service. Which part of my system must be examined?

    Thank you.

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  • Kuldeep

    (@soberbanda)

    4 years, 7 months ago

    @hack3rcon Check your .htaccess file. What’s in there?

    Check your Rewrite rules again. It should look like this if you want your users to go from example1.com to example2.com:

    RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond "%{HTTP_HOST}"   "!^www\.example1\.com" [NC]
RewriteCond "%{HTTP_HOST}"   "!^$"
RewriteRule "^/?(.*)"        "http://www.example2.com/$1" [L,R,NE]

    If you are using redirect, it should look like this:

    RewriteEngine on
Redirect 301 / http://example2.com/

    If you wanna change it via DNS (no redirection), Just point your A record to the new IP address. Here is how that would look like: https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/onyx/quick-start-guide/images/77088.webp

    Let me know how it goes 🙂

    Thread Starter hack3rcon

    (@hack3rcon)

    4 years, 7 months ago

    Thank you.
    My VirtualHost is:

    <VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin root@localhost
ServerName www.example2.com
ServerAlias www.example2.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/wp
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/wordpress_error.log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/wordpress_access.log common
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =example2.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =www.example2.com [OR]
RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]
Redirect permanent / https://www.example2.com

TraceEnable off
ServerSignature Off

# SSL
SSLCipherSuite ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
SSLHonorCipherOrder on
SSLCompression off
SSLSessionTickets off

</VirtualHost>

<Directory &quot;/var/www/wp>
# Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks
Options -Indexes
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory></code></pre>

    And .htaccess file is:

    
# BEGIN W3TC Browser Cache
<IfModule mod_mime.c>
    AddType text/css .css
    AddType text/x-component .htc
    AddType application/x-javascript .js
    AddType application/javascript .js2
    AddType text/javascript .js3
    AddType text/x-js .js4
    AddType video/asf .asf .asx .wax .wmv .wmx
    AddType video/avi .avi
    AddType image/bmp .bmp
    AddType application/java .class
    AddType video/divx .divx
    AddType application/msword .doc .docx
    AddType application/vnd.ms-fontobject .eot
    AddType application/x-msdownload .exe
    AddType image/gif .gif
    AddType application/x-gzip .gz .gzip
    AddType image/x-icon .ico
    AddType image/jpeg .jpg .jpeg .jpe
    AddType image/webp .webp
    AddType application/json .json
    AddType application/vnd.ms-access .mdb
    AddType audio/midi .mid .midi
    AddType video/quicktime .mov .qt
    AddType audio/mpeg .mp3 .m4a
    AddType video/mp4 .mp4 .m4v
    AddType video/mpeg .mpeg .mpg .mpe
    AddType video/webm .webm
    AddType application/vnd.ms-project .mpp
    AddType application/x-font-otf .otf
    AddType application/vnd.ms-opentype ._otf
    AddType application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.database .odb
    AddType application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.chart .odc
    AddType application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.formula .odf
    AddType application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.graphics .odg
    AddType application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation .odp
    AddType application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet .ods
    AddType application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text .odt
    AddType audio/ogg .ogg
    AddType application/pdf .pdf
    AddType image/png .png
    AddType application/vnd.ms-powerpoint .pot .pps .ppt .pptx
    AddType audio/x-realaudio .ra .ram
    AddType image/svg+xml .svg .svgz
    AddType application/x-shockwave-flash .swf
    AddType application/x-tar .tar
    AddType image/tiff .tif .tiff
    AddType application/x-font-ttf .ttf .ttc
    AddType application/vnd.ms-opentype ._ttf
    AddType audio/wav .wav
    AddType audio/wma .wma
    AddType application/vnd.ms-write .wri
    AddType application/font-woff .woff
    AddType application/font-woff2 .woff2
    AddType application/vnd.ms-excel .xla .xls .xlsx .xlt .xlw
    AddType application/zip .zip
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
    ExpiresActive On
    ExpiresByType text/css A31536000
    ExpiresByType text/x-component A31536000
    ExpiresByType application/x-javascript A31536000
    ExpiresByType application/javascript A31536000
    ExpiresByType text/javascript A31536000
    ExpiresByType text/x-js A31536000
    ExpiresByType video/asf A31536000
    ExpiresByType video/avi A31536000
    ExpiresByType image/bmp A31536000
    ExpiresByType application/java A31536000
    ExpiresByType video/divx A31536000
    ExpiresByType application/msword A31536000
    ExpiresByType application/vnd.ms-fontobject A31536000
    ExpiresByType application/x-msdownload A31536000
    ExpiresByType image/gif A31536000
    ExpiresByType application/x-gzip A31536000
    ExpiresByType image/x-icon A31536000
    ExpiresByType image/jpeg A31536000
    ExpiresByType image/webp A31536000
    ExpiresByType application/json A31536000
    ExpiresByType application/vnd.ms-access A31536000
    ExpiresByType audio/midi A31536000
    ExpiresByType video/quicktime A31536000
    ExpiresByType audio/mpeg A31536000
    ExpiresByType video/mp4 A31536000
    ExpiresByType video/mpeg A31536000
    ExpiresByType video/webm A31536000
    ExpiresByType application/vnd.ms-project A31536000
    ExpiresByType application/x-font-otf A31536000
    ExpiresByType application/vnd.ms-opentype A31536000
    ExpiresByType application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.database A31536000
    ExpiresByType application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.chart A31536000
    ExpiresByType application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.formula A31536000
    ExpiresByType application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.graphics A31536000
    ExpiresByType application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation A31536000
    ExpiresByType application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet A31536000
    ExpiresByType application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text A31536000
    ExpiresByType audio/ogg A31536000
    ExpiresByType application/pdf A31536000
    ExpiresByType image/png A31536000
    ExpiresByType application/vnd.ms-powerpoint A31536000
    ExpiresByType audio/x-realaudio A31536000
    ExpiresByType image/svg+xml A31536000
    ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash A31536000
    ExpiresByType application/x-tar A31536000
    ExpiresByType image/tiff A31536000
    ExpiresByType application/x-font-ttf A31536000
    ExpiresByType application/vnd.ms-opentype A31536000
    ExpiresByType audio/wav A31536000
    ExpiresByType audio/wma A31536000
    ExpiresByType application/vnd.ms-write A31536000
    ExpiresByType application/font-woff A31536000
    ExpiresByType application/font-woff2 A31536000
    ExpiresByType application/vnd.ms-excel A31536000
    ExpiresByType application/zip A31536000
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
        AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css text/x-component application/x-javascript application/javascript text/javascript text/x-js text/html text/richtext text/plain text/xsd text/xsl text/xml image/bmp application/java application/msword application/vnd.ms-fontobject application/x-msdownload image/x-icon application/json application/vnd.ms-access video/webm application/vnd.ms-project application/x-font-otf application/vnd.ms-opentype application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.database application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.chart application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.formula application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.graphics application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text audio/ogg application/pdf application/vnd.ms-powerpoint image/svg+xml application/x-shockwave-flash image/tiff application/x-font-ttf application/vnd.ms-opentype audio/wav application/vnd.ms-write application/font-woff application/font-woff2 application/vnd.ms-excel
    <IfModule mod_mime.c>
        # DEFLATE by extension
        AddOutputFilter DEFLATE js css htm html xml
    </IfModule>
</IfModule>
<FilesMatch &quot;\.(css|htc|less|js|js2|js3|js4|CSS|HTC|LESS|JS|JS2|JS3|JS4)$&quot;>
    FileETag MTime Size
    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
         Header unset Set-Cookie
    </IfModule>
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch &quot;\.(html|htm|rtf|rtx|txt|xsd|xsl|xml|HTML|HTM|RTF|RTX|TXT|XSD|XSL|XML)$&quot;>
    FileETag MTime Size
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch &quot;\.(asf|asx|wax|wmv|wmx|avi|bmp|class|divx|doc|docx|eot|exe|gif|gz|gzip|ico|jpg|jpeg|jpe|webp|json|mdb|mid|midi|mov|qt|mp3|m4a|mp4|m4v|mpeg|mpg|mpe|webm|mpp|otf|_otf|odb|odc|odf|odg|odp|ods|odt|ogg|pdf|png|pot|pps|ppt|pptx|ra|ram|svg|svgz|swf|tar|tif|tiff|ttf|ttc|_ttf|wav|wma|wri|woff|woff2|xla|xls|xlsx|xlt|xlw|zip|ASF|ASX|WAX|WMV|WMX|AVI|BMP|CLASS|DIVX|DOC|DOCX|EOT|EXE|GIF|GZ|GZIP|ICO|JPG|JPEG|JPE|WEBP|JSON|MDB|MID|MIDI|MOV|QT|MP3|M4A|MP4|M4V|MPEG|MPG|MPE|WEBM|MPP|OTF|_OTF|ODB|ODC|ODF|ODG|ODP|ODS|ODT|OGG|PDF|PNG|POT|PPS|PPT|PPTX|RA|RAM|SVG|SVGZ|SWF|TAR|TIF|TIFF|TTF|TTC|_TTF|WAV|WMA|WRI|WOFF|WOFF2|XLA|XLS|XLSX|XLT|XLW|ZIP)$&quot;>
    FileETag MTime Size
    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
         Header unset Set-Cookie
    </IfModule>
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch &quot;\.(bmp|class|doc|docx|eot|exe|ico|json|mdb|webm|mpp|otf|_otf|odb|odc|odf|odg|odp|ods|odt|ogg|pdf|pot|pps|ppt|pptx|svg|svgz|swf|tif|tiff|ttf|ttc|_ttf|wav|wri|woff|woff2|xla|xls|xlsx|xlt|xlw|BMP|CLASS|DOC|DOCX|EOT|EXE|ICO|JSON|MDB|WEBM|MPP|OTF|_OTF|ODB|ODC|ODF|ODG|ODP|ODS|ODT|OGG|PDF|POT|PPS|PPT|PPTX|SVG|SVGZ|SWF|TIF|TIFF|TTF|TTC|_TTF|WAV|WRI|WOFF|WOFF2|XLA|XLS|XLSX|XLT|XLW)$&quot;>
    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
         Header unset Last-Modified
    </IfModule>
</FilesMatch>
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
    Header set Referrer-Policy &quot;no-referrer-when-downgrade&quot;
    Header always edit Set-Cookie (.*) &quot;$1; HttpOnly&quot;
    Header always edit Set-Cookie (.*) &quot;$1; Secure&quot;
</IfModule>
# END W3TC Browser Cache
# BEGIN W3TC Page Cache core
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =on
    RewriteRule .* - [E=W3TC_SSL:_ssl]
    RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} =443
    RewriteRule .* - [E=W3TC_SSL:_ssl]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} =https [NC]
    RewriteRule .* - [E=W3TC_SSL:_ssl]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip
    RewriteRule .* - [E=W3TC_ENC:_gzip]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} w3tc_preview [NC]
    RewriteRule .* - [E=W3TC_PREVIEW:_preview]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !=POST
    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} =&quot;&quot;
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !(comment_author|wp\-postpass|w3tc_logged_out|wordpress_logged_in|wptouch_switch_toggle) [NC]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \/$
    RewriteCond &quot;%{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/page_enhanced/%{HTTP_HOST}/%{REQUEST_URI}/_index%{ENV:W3TC_SSL}%{ENV:W3TC_PREVIEW}.html%{ENV:W3TC_ENC}&quot; -f
    RewriteRule .* &quot;/wp-content/cache/page_enhanced/%{HTTP_HOST}/%{REQUEST_URI}/_index%{ENV:W3TC_SSL}%{ENV:W3TC_PREVIEW}.html%{ENV:W3TC_ENC}&quot; [L]
</IfModule>
# END W3TC Page Cache core

# BEGIN rlrssslReallySimpleSSL rsssl_version[4.0.7]
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>
# END rlrssslReallySimpleSSL
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

    Which part is wrong?

    Kuldeep

    (@soberbanda)

    4 years, 7 months ago

    @hack3rcon Your server config file file should look like this:

    <VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.example1.com
Redirect 301 / http://www.example2.com/
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.example2.com
. . .
. . .
</VirtualHost>

    Go through the following thread: https://serverfault.com/questions/344614/simple-apache2-redirect-from-one-domain-to-another

    George Appiah

    (@gappiah)

    4 years, 7 months ago

    I had a WordPress website and changed my domain name from “example1.com” to “example2.com”

    Just to rule out the possibility…

    When you say you changed your domain, did you actually swap the two domains in BOTH the “WordPress Address” and “Site Address” fields in the WordPress dashboard (or their equivalent rows in the database)?

    If you didn’t make the change in WordPress, then this is the root of your problem!

    Changing The Site URL

    Thread Starter hack3rcon

    (@hack3rcon)

    4 years, 7 months ago

    Hello @soberbanda,
    Thank you for your help.
    I changed my VirtualHosts configuration and it is now as follows:

    <VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.example1.com
Redirect 301 / http://www.example2.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin root@localhost
ServerName www.example2.com
ServerAlias www.example2.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/wp
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/wordpress_error.log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/wordpress_access.log common
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =example2.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =www.example2.com [OR]
RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]
Redirect permanent / https://www.example2.com

TraceEnable off
ServerSignature Off

# SSL
SSLCipherSuite ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
SSLHonorCipherOrder on
SSLCompression off
SSLSessionTickets off

</VirtualHost>

<Directory /var/www/wp>
# Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks
Options -Indexes
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>

    Then, I did:
    # systemctl restart httpd
    When I enter “example2.com” in my browser, then it showed me “example1.com”!
    Can it because of the wrong configuration in the domain name panel (NS1.example1.com) or DNS server?

    Thread Starter hack3rcon

    (@hack3rcon)

    4 years, 7 months ago

    Hello @gappiah,
    I edited the “wp-config.php” file and added those lines, but about the “functions.php” file, which file must be edited:

    ./wp-content/plugins/recent-posts-widget-extended/includes/functions.php
./wp-content/themes/example/functions.php
./wp-content/themes/twentytwentyone/functions.php
./wp-includes/functions.php

    Thank you.

    George Appiah

    (@gappiah)

    4 years, 7 months ago

    Can it because of the wrong configuration in the domain name panel (NS1.example1.com) or DNS server?

    If properly configured, using example1.com as the NS for example example2.com shouldn’t cause such a redirect. Hosting companies use their own NS domains for thousands of their own clients’ domains, and this never causes any issues.

    Of course, some DNS record(s) could be causing this. But it’s impossible to say without knowing the domains in question and checking their DNS records.

    If you could share the actual domains involved, that would help.

    Kuldeep

    (@soberbanda)

    4 years, 7 months ago

    @hack3rcon Try and Put /$ after ^ on this line:

    RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]

    Thread Starter hack3rcon

    (@hack3rcon)

    4 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks @soberbanda, but I got below error:

    Oct 03 11:53:30 example httpd[1183294]: AH00526: Syntax error on line 26 of /etc/>
Oct 03 11:53:30 example httpd[1183294]: RewriteRule: bad flag delimiters
    Thread Starter hack3rcon

    (@hack3rcon)

    4 years, 7 months ago

    @gappiah, which one of those files must be edited?

    Kuldeep

    (@soberbanda)

    4 years, 7 months ago

    @hack3rcon Change /$ to just (.*)$ and check.

    It is kind of hard to ascertain the exact thing going wrong here.

    Here are the rewrite rules: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/rewrite/intro.html

    I don’t think there’s an issue with the DNS unless you specified it to redirect from example2.com to example1.com and forgot about it.

    You would need to debug the virtualhost config file.

    Thread Starter hack3rcon

    (@hack3rcon)

    4 years, 7 months ago

    I don’t have any access to the DNS server and I can’t check it.
    How can I debug the VirtualHosts config file? In your opinion, is my VirtualHosts file incorrect?

    Kuldeep

    (@soberbanda)

    4 years, 7 months ago

    @hack3rcon We need more information here to help you out. Did u migrate your website to a new server? What are your domain names pointing at?

    We would need screenshot of your DNS records too, to check if there is any redirection applied. Use this: https://mxtoolbox.com/DNSLookup.aspx

    The server config file looks fine to me (if I am not missing a detail here).

    What @gappiah suggested here, has to be applied to your current theme’s functions.php file.

    Please let us know all the details along with a link to your website.

    Thread Starter hack3rcon

    (@hack3rcon)

    4 years, 7 months ago

    Hello @soberbanda,
    Thank you so much for your help.
    I added below lines to my “wp-config.php” file:

    define( 'WP_HOME', 'http://example.com' );
define( 'WP_SITEURL', 'http://example.com' );

    And about the “functions.php” file, as you see my website using two theme’s:

    ./wp-content/themes/example/functions.php
./wp-content/themes/twentytwentyone/functions.php

    Should I add below lines to both of them and refresh my WordPress website and then remove those lines?

    update_option( 'siteurl', 'http://example.com' );
update_option( 'home', 'http://example.com' );

    And about the DNS records, I can’t reveal my website name because of the security:
    Link

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by hack3rcon.
    Kuldeep

    (@soberbanda)

    4 years, 7 months ago

    @hack3rcon The other one is the default WordPress theme not an active one.

    Without website link, it is very difficult to be able to help.

    Check these things:

    1. Is example2.com set to redirect to example1.com?
    2. Did you migrate your website on a new server?
    3. How does it look like in your settings?:
    https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/changesiteurls-adminarea.png

    Thanks 🙂

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