ServerAlias - Force Apache to use 301 by default instead of 302

Question

I currently have the following in my config file:

ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com
ServerAlias www.example.org
ServerAlias www.example.co.uk

This all works great because if I go to www.example.org/something I get redirected to http://example.com/something The only problem is that the redirection that occurs is "temporary" ie: 302 instead of 301.

How can I change this so that it will be a 301 instead while still using the very popular ServerAlias command?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 30 '15 at 13:56

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I don't think the 302 was generated by Apache.

You can do a 301 with something like this in your Apache configuration :

RewriteEngine   On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^exemple\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http%{ENV:protossl}://exemple.com%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

answered Jul 30 '15 at 13:56

Sylvain Firmery

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What do you mean that you "don't think the 302 was generated ab Apache"? What would have generated it then. – John Crawford Jul 30 '15 at 14:54
Sadly that code above gave me a apache redirect loop – John Crawford Jul 30 '15 at 15:04
The 302 should come from your application. – Sylvain Firmery Jul 30 '15 at 16:27
It's not generated by the _core_ of apache, IOW explicitly by specifying ServerAlias. You could have mod_rewrite or Redirect stuff in your config. – covener Jul 31 '15 at 23:32

ServerAlias - Force Apache to use 301 by default instead of 302

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