Redirecting Domain using Route53 DNS

Question

I'm thinking of redirect the user to http://webmail.domain.com/3rdparty/roundcube directly instead of http://webmail.domain.com/

Is there anyway i can do this, it only seem that i can edit the"Sub domain" on route 53, not sure if there is a way to have the "/3rdparty/roundcube" behind "http://webmail.domain.com"

Or any other alternative of doing so? Was thinking of TinyURL :\

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 17 '13 at 23:52

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One way to do it is to use Redirect rule with Apache2 virtualhosts

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName webmail.domain.com
    Redirect 301 /  http://webmail.domain.com/3rdparty/roundcube

    ....
</VirtualHost>

answered Jan 17 '13 at 23:52

cyberhicham

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Any alternative other than apache? :x – CodeGuru Jan 21 '13 at 05:30
You can do it with PHP like this : ``header('Location: http://webmail.domain.com/3rdparty/roundcube');`` in your http://webmail.domain.com/index.php, but it's overkill imo, apache2 way (virtualhost or .htaccess) is the normal way to do it. are you using another webserver than Apache ? – cyberhicham Jan 21 '13 at 10:07

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 18 '13 at 00:05

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You can do it via .htaccess if you're using apache. This isn't really a job for DNS.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^webmail.domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ /3rdparty/roundcube [R=301,L]

answered Jan 18 '13 at 00:05

Grumpy

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Any alternative other than apache? :x – CodeGuru Jan 21 '13 at 05:28
@RainbowHat It's best to do it at server level. And depends on which server you are running. You need to provide more information if you want alternative answers. – Grumpy Jan 21 '13 at 19:02

Redirecting Domain using Route53 DNS

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