Rewrite Rules for all sites

cPanel Community,

I want to have http://www.domain-name.tld/mailman/listinfo redirected to http://domain-name.tld/mailman/listinfo (without the www.)

I added some Rewrite Rules to the Post VirtualHost Include (/usr/local/apache/conf/includes/post_virtualhost_global.conf) using the cPanel Include Editor for all Apache version.

The Rewrite Rules did not work, so I tried a simple Rewrite Rule that works in /home/domain-username/public_html/.htaccess:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteLog "/var/log/rewrite.log"
RewriteLogLevel 2

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.domain-name\.tld$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain-name.tld/$1 [R,L]


The RewriteLog and RewriteLogLevel commands are effective, so I know that Apache is reading the file.

However, the RewriteRule is not effective.

What am I doing wrong? Is the HTTP_HOST not available at this point?

The Rewrite Logs do not show that Apache evaluated the Rewrite Rule for domain-name.tld

I tried putting the same commands in /usr/local/apache/conf/userdata/mailman.conf and got the same results.

# /scripts/verify_vhost_includes
Testing /usr/local/apache/conf/userdata/mailman.conf...ok

Jim

 

Rewriting the domain name is harder than switching from HTTP to HTTPS. Here is what I had to add to httpd.conf or .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteMap strip_www prg:/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/bin/strip_www.pl

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/mailman
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\. [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://${strip_www:%{HTTP_HOST}}/$1 [R,L]

where /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/bin/strip_www.pl contains:

#!/usr/bin/perl
$| = 1;
while (<STDIN>) {
$_ =~ s/www\.//;
print $_;
}

It works, but loads 423 perl strip_www.pl processes when I start httpd. It's the nature of Apache beast.

I think that I would better off creating individual httpd.conf files for each domain name in:

/usr/local/apache/conf/userdata/std/2/$username/$domainname

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/mailman
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.$domainname$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://$domainname/$1 [R,L]

where $username and $domainname have to be different for each site.

I haven't tried this yet.

Jim

 

Very nice. I liked it and replaced my RewriteMap with your code.

BTW, both codes work in /usr/local/apache/conf/userdata/mailman.conf also. You're right. They won't work in /home/username/public_html/.htaccess because it is never loaded for URI /mailman. However, /usr/local/apache/conf/userdata/*.conf is included in the httpd.conf, so it is always loaded with every virtual domain. I found this solution before you posted your message.

Thanks again.

Jim

 

Tristan,

That Rewrite Code worked so well, how about this one?

I want to rewrite any Mailman URL that does not contain an underline, so that:

http://domain-name/mailman/script-name/list-name

is rewritten as

http://domain-name/mailman/script-name/list-name_domain-name

I tried this Rewriting Code and it did not work

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule !^(.*)_(.*)$ $1_%1 [R=301,L]

I guess the $1 variable is not set when the Rule is not matched (!)

Jim