Redirecting from IP to hostname not working

External redirect from old mod_userdir-format

[grandma genie]

Hi Jim,

I am still finding visitors to my site coming from the old IP-based name and I would like to redirect them to the correct site name. This is what I have tried and it is not working. I don't know why. Can you see my error?

# Externally redirect old mod_userdir-format requests to canonical hostname
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^24\.248\.nn\.nnn\ [NC]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT}s ^(443(s)|[0-9]+s)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http%2://www.mywebsite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Thank you for your help.

Jeannie

[g1smd]

HTTP_HOST does not need the trailing slash, nor the [NC] flag.

[grandma genie]

It is now working, but only if the URL only contains the IP address. If there is anything after it, like this: 24.248.nn.nnn/other_directory/page.html it does not redirect. What am I forgetting?

[g1smd]

...does not redirect

What does it do?


Make sure you use flush the browser cache before testing. Also test using the Live HTTP Headers extension for Firefox, and look very carefully at the reports.

[grandma genie]

Flushed the browser cache and it is working fine now. Thank you.

[wilderness]

Whats this trailing s:

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT}s

[g1smd]

It loads "s" into %2 when port is 443.

[edited by: jdMorgan at 5:04 pm (utc) on Jan 9, 2011]
[edit reason] Fixed typo only. [/edit]